Abstract
Traction aims to promote, through their empowerment, a transformation of communities at risk of exclusion. To achieve that goal, we have established an effective collaborative and participatory production workflow for the co-creation and co-design of art representations, using a community-centric methodology. We have been conducting a community dialogue, while in parallel we are exploring novel audio-visual formats. A toolset will be designed and developed to foster democratisation of opera, using technology as a means to reach new audiences and to connect artists with audiences. This evidence-based presentation reports on the experience gathered through the use of new ideas of co-creation and participatory art to involve vulnerable groups of citizens in the creative process of opera. The aim is to empower people and communities in three trials: inner-city Barcelona, a youth prison in Leiria and rural communities in Ireland. The presentation also shows the new technologies we have developed to establish an effective participatory production workflow and to explore novel audio-visual art representation formats to provoke an impact on the relationship between opera and digital technology.
Presenters
Pilar OreroProfessor, Department of Translation, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Details
Presentation Type
Theme
2021 Special Focus - Voices from the Edge: Negotiating the Local in the Global
KEYWORDS
PARTICIPATORY ART, OPERA CO-CREATION, VULNERABLE GROUPS, TECHNOLOGY
