Human differentiations of the audience. Inclusion and exclusion through practices of addressing and segregation in contemporary theater (E02 (ehem. A02))

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292

The project investigates the human differentiation of the audience in contemporary theater. Based on the research on disability performance in the first funding phase, it will examine how audiences are addressed, differentiated and segregated in contemporary theater. The focus of the project is on the analysis of dramaturgical and material-infrastructural measures to promote accessibility, new practices of identity-related audience addressing in the public relations work of theaters, as well as debates on norms and conventions of discrimination-sensitive communication of events (e.g. on so-called trigger warnings or safe spaces).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1482: Studies in Human Differentiation
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Benjamin Wihstutz