Intercultural creative expression in two Australian performance works -Counting and CrackingandMother Tongue

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ID2999268
AutoresCecelia Cmielewski (0000-0002-7423-8236, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Rydalmere, Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume28
Fascículo5
Páginas676-697
Data de publicação2022-09-03
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630.2022.2112662
OpenAlexW4328029985
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

Art can assist in exposure to difference, which may in turn open up spaces for dialogue between differences. This capacity to encourage and intervene necessarily operates at various levels and spheres and, in the arts, requires creative leadership. Creative leaders are those artists, recognised by their peers and public as artists who generate new developments in creative content to explore diversity. It is predominantly artists of non-English speaking background (‘NESB’) who bear the burden to generate the opportunities as the main producers of content that interacts with multicultural Australia. I am cautious to place sole responsibility onto the minorised and underpaid multicultural artist to transform Australian society. However, their creative leadership roles show that their work and processes can produce new narratives towards intercultural dialogues. Many ‘NESB’ artists adopt this mantle by undertaking new creative production with the potential to transform the symbols within society. This paper explores the ways in which social and creative symbols are re-negotiated through the work of two Australian performance artists. Writer and director Shakthi Shakthidharan; and dancer and choreographer, Annalouise Paul exemplify how artists from diverse backgrounds increase the level of culturally diverse creative production. They make meaning through the contestations and negotiations of multicultural Australia

Aesthetics · Art · Creative industries · Creative work · Epistemology · Literature · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Narrative · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Theatre and Performance Studies