Ó Conchúir, Fearghus (2017) Artist/Citizen: Choreographing the Nation Brand. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
This research examines the corporeal experience of dance artists in Ireland
implicated in the production and promotion of the nation and in possibilities of
citizenship at multiple scales. Dance, as an art-form practised in the formation of
individual and collective bodies, is proposed as a valuable resource for imagining,
embodying and reflecting on alternative corporealities that make spaces for
diverse and contested experiences within and beyond Ireland’s borders. As an art
form concerned with the organisation of movement in space, dance provides a
framework for analysing the spatialities of substantive citizenship, recognising that
the nation state is not the only scale at which citizenship operates. Who is
permitted to appear where and when is a question that guides the geographical,
ethical, political and choreographic perspectives deployed throughout. Also of
concern has been how the corporeal knowledge and experience of choreography
appears in the written form of a PhD thesis. In a challenge to totalising and
deadening accounts of live performance, the thesis draws on the distinctive
insights of the choreographer-scholar that nonetheless acknowledges the partial,
mobile and emergent quality of its situated knowledge. Using a queer bricolage as
methodology, the research focuses on my choreography as an example of
contemporary dance practice, operating independently of formal structures of
incorporation, but nonetheless dependent of multiple networks of support, to ask
what agency is available to the individual dance artist in shaping the nation brand
and in proposing structures hospitable to the kinds of embodiment disadvantaged
by hegemonic conceptions of the national body. The research situates my
choreographic practice in the context of cultural policy and practice in the Irish
State, as evidenced through The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and, to a lesser
extent, Creative Ireland. My recent work, The Casement Project, the largest of the
Arts Council’s projects for the Ireland 2016 commemoration programme, offers
valuable material for addressing the relationship between the dance artist and the
nation.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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Keywords: | Artist/Citizen; Choreographing; Nation Brand; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: | 9370 |
Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2018 14:45 |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/9370 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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