What are the pitfalls of participation? And what role do community arts makers take (consciously or unconsciously) when they make participatory art that is part of a not-so-social, neoliberal political policy? For ICAF 2023, dr. Sruti Bala (University of Amsterdam) will build upon these arguments, by presenting two lectures. The first, on Thursday 30 March, will be \u201cParticipate or Else!”, in which Sruti will sketch the influence of neo-liberalism on community art in terms of ‘social impact\u2019 and participation as a political instrument, questioning tokenistic calls for \u2018diversity\u2019 and proposing a vision of international, inter-species solidarity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lecture will form part of a practical session in which makers will be encouraged to go into dialogue with each other after an introduction from Sruti, to explore the ideas presented further, and apply them directly to their own contexts and practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
dr. Sruti Bala is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam. She has previously presented at ICAF NWE MKRS 2021 and 2022 on the topic of the \u201cPitfalls of Participation in Community Arts\u201d. Click here<\/a><\/strong> for her introduction to these topics in ZOOM, during ICAF NWE MKRS in 2021.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are the pitfalls of participation? And what role do community arts makers take (consciously or unconsciously) when they make participatory art that is part of a not-so-social, neoliberal political policy? For ICAF 2023, dr. Sruti Bala (University of Amsterdam) will build upon these arguments, by presenting two lectures. The first, on Thursday 30 March,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46,"template":"","topic":[],"editions":[15],"festival_production_types":[24],"class_list":["post-45","production","type-production","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edition-15","festival_production_type-lecture"],"acf":{"edition":15,"makers_involved":"","also_interesting":[1411],"makers":[{"ID":4121,"post_author":"601","post_date":"2022-09-22 14:02:13","post_date_gmt":"2022-09-22 12:02:13","post_content":"\n Sruti Bala is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Theatre Studies of the University of Amsterdam, where she currently co-ordinates the\u00a0MA Theatre Studies<\/a>\u00a0programme. She is affiliated to the\u00a0\u00a0Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis<\/a>\u00a0and is a member of the ASCA advisory board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sruti's research interests are at the intersections of performance and politics, which has taken shape in specific research projects on nonviolent protest, participatory art, artistic activism, feminist and postcolonial\/decolonial literary and cultural theories and translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She co-ordinates a five-year NWO-funded research project in co-operation with the University of Cura\u00e7ao on the cultural practices of citizenship in the Dutch Caribbean. \u00a0She is an active member of the collective\u00a0International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India)<\/a>. Sruti studies Indian percussion (Tabla) with\u00a0Niti Ranjan Biswas.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n