Abstract
This research explores the role of performing arts administrators in utilizing creative placemaking strategies and a trauma-informed approach to curate performance spaces for the performance of cultural trauma and memory. The study aims to examine the current paradigms of performing arts curating and creative placemaking and address their intersectionality with the frameworks on the performance of cultural trauma and memory. Through in-depth textual analysis, interviews with experts, and two case studies, the research suggests that the current understanding of curation in relation to performing arts administration lacks guiding principles in effectively establishing a safe performance space for incorporating the performance of cultural trauma. Findings in this study outline that the trauma-informed approach offers a promising guideline to inform the administrators of the necessary components, like care for the artists and the administrators themselves as the witnesses and curators. The research examines how live performance curation and trauma-informed placemaking have been implemented specifically with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum and the “Comfort Women” Memorial in San Francisco. With this analysis, this research recommends an Updated Guiding Principles of Trauma-Informed Approach for Performing Arts Administrators, introducing practical implications for arts administrators to incorporate in their season planning and space curation when presenting works related to cultural trauma and corresponding collective memory engagement.
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Presentation Type
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
Belonging, Collective Memory, Performance, Cultural Trauma, Healing, Arts Administration, Tension
