P/Reenacting Emotions: Feeling Futures in Performing Arts (D11 [B03])

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

The performance studies research project explores how the performing arts contribute to tangibly shaping future forms of feeling. We examine which modes of representation and interaction, and which artistic practices address societal conflicts and social issues that can neither be assigned to clear affective classifications nor to established emotion repertoires, because they are situated in an anticipated future and/or are controversial in multiple ways. Our research considers performances in their stage settings as well as the programs and institutional practices that surround them, such as educational workshops and selection committee meetings. The project’s goal is to analyze the performative works as preenactments of possible modes of affective and emotional new orientation in the world.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Doris Kolesch