What can theatre do about the refugee crisis? Enacting commitment and navigating complicity in performative interventions. Issue 2 (3rd April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Marschall, Anika
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 23:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 148
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2018-04-03
• Subjects: Political performance -- refugee crisis -- asylum seekers -- institutional aesthetics -- social commitment; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2018.1438180
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article argues that in a society transformed by an increasing bureaucratic nexus of migration, artistic responses to political crises are particularly effective when working with institutions. To probe the prevalent discourse on the efficacy of performance art, the article interrogates Grandhotel Cosmopolis through a lens of institutional aesthetics. Dwelling at the intersection between performance and institutions, this intervention combines refugee accommodation with a tourist hotel and artist studios. Ultimately, the article outlines the role of commitment in the intervention, which stands exemplary for emerging art practices that permeate the boundaries of institutional policy, performance art and social fields.