The ITI Journal features national and international authors from academia and artistic practice who report on the performing arts in a transnational context, cultural policy or cultural discourses in a broader sense.
To kick things off, we look at the role of theatre festivals with a view to their narratives, their diversity and strategies of curating and look forward to contributions from Dr. Lisa Gaupp and Dr. Nicola Scherer. Nora Amin reports on her experiences as a curator in the context of decolonisation processes. In addition, Yvonne Büdenhölzer and Thomas Engel talk about the impact of the pandemic on transnational exchange and the challenges for the ITI network.
More articles will follow, including an interview with Chiaki Soma and Kyoko Iwaki, the curators of the Festival Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach.
Dr. Lisa Gaupp explores how diversity and otherness could be curated without labeling, paternalizing, or exoticizing while at the same time taking into account the severe impact that neocolonial structures and practices of social inequality and exclusion have on the ambition to decolonize curatorial practices.
Dr. Nicola Scherer gave the keynote speech, of which experpts are published here, at the Kick Off Weekend of the ITI Academy on 3 December 2021, where transnational and globally active artists, scholars, and experts from culture and politics analysed and discussed the future of international festivals and transnational collaborations.
