Migrant Steps / Göçmen Adımlar
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 3366
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Documentary film, book section
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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T - Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Through community theatre, I investigate how consolidating walking and performer training positively impacts the lives of Turkish-speaking migrant women like myself, by fostering presence - as a citizen’s public visibility and a performer’s heightened awareness and expressivity. Merging walking as performance (Mock 2009, Qualmann & Hind 2015), walking as research (Mitchell 2003, Middleton 2010) and laboratory theatre (Schino 2009, Carreri 2014, Magnat 2013) within a socially engaged artistic framework (Bishop 2012, Harvie 2013, Wickstrom 2012), I interrogate the cross-sections of political and theatrical presence and question the boundaries between private studio and public street, laboratory and community theatre. _x000D_
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Drawing on psychogeography, auto-ethnography and autobiographical performer training, I developed a practice of ‘getting lost and returning home’ which integrated the Situationists’ dérive (Debord 2006) with Stanislavskian psychophysicality (Stanislavski 2008, Zarilli 2012). I led weekly collective drifts outside familiar neighbourhoods and performer training workshops, cultivating attunement with the urban environment and with bodily impulses, thoughts, feelings, and external points of contact. Participants documented their experiences in communal notebooks which became the catalyst for devising, leading to public performances marking International Women's Day alongside a documentary film. _x000D_
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I initiated the project, engaged DayMer Community Centre and North London Community House, secured funding from Arts Council and Goldsmiths, enlisted other Turkish-speaking migrant artists, facilitated the walks and workshops, composed, scripted and directed the performance, led the self-evaluation process - including feedback from participants and an external partner - and disseminated the project in academic and non-academic contexts. _x000D_
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This submission contains: _x000D_
Saner, Göze and Saniye Dedeoğlu (2017) “Turkish/Kurdish Women’s Migrant Steps in London: Public Walks/Personal Returns” in Gülçin Erdi Lelandais & Yıldırım Şentürk (ed.) Identity, Justice and Resistance in the Neoliberal City, London: Palgrave. _x000D_
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Erdoğan, Alev and Göze Saner, Göçmen Adımlar/Migrant Steps. 2014. http://research.gold.ac.uk/17610
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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