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Seminário GIEEMP | Co-existing in-between, co-operating across: learning/teaching music while seeking asylum
SEMINÁRIO PERMANENTE DO GRUPO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO ETNOMUSICOLOGIA E ESTUDOS EM MÚSICA POPULAR
2024-05-29 | 15h00 | NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Campolide (Lisboa) | Sala 208 - Piso 2 | Sala Zoom
Entrada livre, presencial e online. O seminário decorrerá em inglês.
Co-existing in-between, co-operating across: learning/teaching music while seeking asylum
Chrysi Kyratsou | University College Dublin, School of Music
Neste seminário, Chrysi Kyratsou centra-se na aprendizagem/ensino de música durante a procura de asilo. Assumindo a perspectiva que se designa por "Comunidades de Práticas Musicais", ela discute a interação constante entre o Possível e o Real que subjaz ao fazer musical enquanto se espera num limbo legal e existencial. Colocam-se em destaque os processos que conferem à aprendizagem/ensino da música o seu potencial para facilitar sentidos e expressões de múltiplas (não-)pertenças. O seminário decorrerá em inglês.
This seminar focuses on learning/teaching music while seeking asylum. Assuming the lens of ‘Communities of Musical Practice,’ it discusses the constant interplay between Possible and Actual underpinning musicking while waiting in legal and existential limbo. It foregrounds the processes that endow learning/teaching music with the potential to facilitate senses and expressions of multiple (non-)belongings.
Access to arts and culture, as well as the urgency of enhancing it through arts and cultural education has been increasingly stressed, due to the extensive benefits they entail, and the transformative potential they have for individuals and communities (see UNESCO 2024). The decisive role that music and arts can play in refugees’ everyday lives, as well as the rich insights we can get through focusing on creative practices into what refugeehood actually entails, have also been examined thoroughly (Kyratsou 2023; Murphy and Chatzipanagiotidou 2020; Pistrick 2020; Western 2020). Yet, the insurmountable potential entailed in arts education competes with significant and diverse challenges. It is in the counterpoint between the two, that actual transformation occurs. This seminar focuses on the learning/teaching music as undertaken in the radically diverse contexts of reception centres in Athens, Greece, in the aftermath of the ‘European Refugee Crisis,’ and as massively disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion follows the participants’ narrated experiences, mapped across their (forced) migratory trajectories, and the indeterminate waiting, that being stuck in legal (and existential) limbo involves, as well as their learning/teaching experiences outside the reception centres contexts. What is the value of learning/teaching music when the future remains bleak until further notice? What are the motivations for committing to learning/teaching music? How can Communities of Musical Practice (Kenny 2016) be fostered across all the frictions underpinning participants’ backgrounds, and what are the emergent potentials? Finally, how do Possible and Actual (see Turino 2008) interlace in these musicking contexts, mediating and being mediated by the limbo-induced precarity? Time, Space, the dipole of Peace/War, and the conditionality of ‘sanctuary’ get musicked, when people start experimenting with co-existing in-between, and cooperating across in the matrix of music.
Chrysi Kyratsou | Doutorada em Antropologia, com formação em etnomusicologia e musicologia e educação musical, é investigadora de pós-doutoramento na Escola de Música da University College of Dublin, onde agora desenvolve a publicação e a realização de atividades de impacto e envolvimento. O seu projeto de investigação atual defende o envolvimento ativo com a música entre os requerentes de asilo acolhidos em centros de receção na Grécia. Considera, em particular, como o envolvimento musical - a audição por si/em grupo, o ensino e a aprendizagem da música, o fazer música em contextos formais ou informais - se entrelaça com a experiência traumática da deslocação, e com as incertezas e a precariedade que o limbo da procura de asilo induz.
