Festiwal sztuki rdzennej ludności i (od)łączenie się z współczesnymi rzeczywistościami społeczno- kulturowymi w południowo-wschodniej Nigerii

Autor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/15

Słowa kluczowe:

Teoria hybrydowości, Festiwal Onwa-Oru, Nigeria, Kultura, Sztuka, Współczesne realia

Abstrakt

Festiwal jest punktem kulminacyjnym rdzennych instytucji kulturalnych w Afryce oraz ekspresji artystycznej przekazanej mieszkańcom przez ich przodków i kultywowanych przez pokolenia. Artykuł poprzez przeprowadzone badania, odnosi się do niemniejszej problematyki. Kilka społeczności rdzennych w południowo-wschodniej Nigerii żyje pod silną presją niebezpiecznych wydarzeń: degradacji środowiska, powstań, wykluczenia z głównego nurtu polityki i dystrybucji zasobów; kryzysu moralnego i erozji kulturowych i tożsamościowych elementów, takich jak język. Jeśli festiwale są utrzymywane w celu odniesienia się do realiów czasów pierwotnych, gdzie oraz w jaki sposób pojawiające się nowe realia znajdują wyraz w tych festiwalach? Opierając się na teorii hybrydowości kulturowej i wykorzystując obserwację uczestniczącą, analizę studium przypadku oraz dyskusję w grupie fokusowej. Badanie prezentuje zmiany kulturowe i artystyczne na Festiwalu Onwa-Oru ludu Uratta w południowo-wschodniej Nigerii. Ma ono na celu zbadanie zakresu i wpływu zaniku kontekstu do działań performatywnych na przyszłość rdzennych ludów. Badanymi komponentami kultury są rdzenne tańce i występy maskaradowe, podczas gdy główne strefy oceny socjologicznej to środowisko, media, moralność i pedagogika. Badacze zauważają, że to oderwanie od współczesnych realiów dało przestrzeń negatywnym ikonoklazmom kulturalnej i artystycznej werwy festiwalu. Podsumowując, nowe kreatywne ponowne połączenie festiwalu i jego sztuk z panującymi realiami mogłoby pomóc rdzennym ludom poruszać się po życiu w niebezpiecznych czasach. Zgodnie z powyższym mottem, sugeruje ono nowe sposoby, dzięki którym ludność miejscowa mogłaby postrzegać swoją sztukę w nowy sposób.

Biogramy autorów

Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo - Theatre Arts Programme, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State.

Ph.D holder in African Dance and Choreography and a faculty member at Bowen University's Theatre Arts Program in Iwo, Osun State, Nigeria. He is also a research associate of Theatre Emissary International (TEMI), a member of the Guild of Nigerian Dance Practitioners (GONDP), and an Editorial Member of Researchjournali's Journal of Media Studies. He is also a member of the College of Liberal Studies' Research and Strategic Partnerships as well as the Artistic Director of African Pot Theatre. Owerri Imo State, Nigeria. His research focusses on Africa's indigenous performative cultures and aesthetics, decoloniality, and environmental sustainability in the Global South via autochthonous epistemologies, primarily through indigenous performative arts. Recently, his works have attempted to develop future appraisals of African performatives and modalities for their sustenance beyond the current turbulent times. These ideas have been expressed in over twenty-five of his publications in book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.

Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen - Theatre Arts Programme, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State.

Associate Professor of Theatre Management, Administration Advocacy and Entrepreneurship, and a faculty member of the Theatre Arts Programme, of Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria. The main focus of his research starting from mainly from his doctoral dissertation subject matter, is Theatre management, administration, advocacy and entrepreneurship. This is a huge contribution to the overall discourses of the viability and overall economics of the performing arts and culture in the Global South, with particular interest in Nigeria, and the African continent by extension. This is evidently reflected in his over 34 publications both in chapter in books and in peer-reviewed learned journals. A larger percentage of his research titles – published, unpublished and on-going researches so far, interrogate this main focus through advocating for the decolonisation, professionalisation, deculturation, and at the same time the strategic globalisation of the management and administration of performing arts and culture institutions and the creative industries in Africa. This of course leads to the expansion of his arguments into areas such as the investigation of the potency and roles of the epistemologies of the African indigenous arts, and that of the Theatre generally, in resisting ecocolonialism, the African patriarchal hegemony and the continual colonisation of the overall African society which by implication ultimately affect the administration of its cultural institutions.

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2024-12-29