Presenting in the final panel of the Directing and Dramaturgy, Duška Radosavljević offers another iteration of ‘An Immersive Research Methodology for Theatre and Performance’.
This contribution bridges over between her previously published research on deprofessionalisation in ‘theatre-making’ (2013) and a currently developing ‘immersive’ research methodology for studying processes of theatre and performance-making which use aurality as their point of departure. By focusing on often innovative and emergent dramaturgical practices, and re-centering the maker(s)’ agency over the ‘exterior’ processes of critique, this work foregrounds the affordances of improvisation, conversation and collaboration in academic enquiry.
This paper is part of an ongoing AHRC-funded Aural/Oral Dramaturgies research project and the proposed methodology has evolved under the working conditions of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Drawing on the inherently relational notion of voice (Cavarero 2005) and inspired by the positive potential of immersivity contained within Steven Feld’s notion of acoustemology (2015), this paper proposes a post-critical, empirical research methodology which re-centres the artist – and the notion of ‘the artist’s idiom’ – through a collaborative approach in the knowledge-seeking endeavor of academic research.
