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TransMigrArts · Transforming Migration by Arts

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2021-01-01 → 2025-12-31
EU contribution
€2,185,000
Participants
13
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Transforming Migration by Arts

The reality of migration in the 21st century is a major social challenge for Europe and the whole world. The TransMigrARTS project, Transforming Migration through the Arts, aimed to prove, using an applied creative research methodology, that running performing arts workshops (theatre, clowning, dance, performance, writing) with migrants can reduce the vulnerability of people who leave their country due to violence, climate change, education, work, or who are displaced by armed conflict within their own territory, as in Colombia. For five years, 13 higher education institutions and cultural organisations from four countries (France, Spain, Denmark and Colombia) worked to design workshops based on different artistic languages, which they tested in several organisations, NGOs, communities hosting refugees, asylum seekers, exiles and workers, and companies working in the field of interculturalism. For five years, 13 higher education institutions and cultural organisations from four countries (France, Spain, Denmark and Colombia) worked to develop workshops based on different artistic languages, which they tested in several organisations, NGOs, communities hosting refugees, asylum seekers, exiles and workers, and companies working in the field of interculturalism. The evaluation of these practices was intended to assess the impact of these workshops on participants, in order to offer new artistic methods for supporting migrants and to support public policies on migration. An innovative communication strategy was devised through a documentary novel on social media and the writing of a musical comedy in order to create the TransMigrARTS community and raise awareness among a wider audience of the reality of migration.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Migrant numbers are increasing all the time across the world and especially since 2014 in Europe. For different reasons, human mobilities have become one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Beyond the legal, political, sociological and psychological aspects, the vulnerable situation of individuals who have left their country of origin is a given that can be explored from the field of art. We believe that performing arts can contribute to transforming and improving the modes of existence of migrants in vulnerable situations in the receiving country or countries. The TransMigrArts project (14 partners) intends to set up a Spanish-speaking network of researchers, artists/researchers and cultural enterprises spanning Europe and Latin America. We will use an applied research-creation methodology to observe, assess and model socially innovative artistic workshops where the target communities are integrated as stakeholders. Thus, TransMigrArts will establish an observation and assessment methodology of the existing artistic dispositive, focussing mainly on Colombian practices. A tool will be devised to assess the impact of the artistic workshops that have a transforming effect on migrants’ vulnerable situations, aiming to compare practices. Secondly, analysis of the existing dispositive will lead to the proposal of prototype workshops, geared to more specific communities (ex. asylum seekers). These various proposals will be implemented in conjunction with organisations that work with migrants to spread the research-creation results. Through this project, we will prove that the arts, complementary to other approaches, bring societal innovation and are likely to accord wide-ranging knowledge. The project’s longer-term aim is to stimulate the establishment of an international community around applied research-creation by spreading and using the research and innovation results in a variety of socioeconomic and cultural sectors.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE II-JEAN JAURES · ToulouseCoordinatorFrance
  • AARHUS UNIVERSITET · Aarhus CDenmark
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • ASOCIACION NUEVO TEATRO FRONTERIZO · MADRIDCity levelSpain
  • AULA ABIERTA SA · MADRIDSpain
  • LES ANACHRONIQUES · TOULOUSEFrance
  • PACFA CONSEIL · LABEGEFrance
  • PROYECTO NAQUE SL · MADRIDSpain
  • REMIENDO TEATRO SL · GRANADASpain
  • SARL PRODUCTIONS THEATRE ROQUELAINE · LOMBEZFrance
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA · MEDELLINColombia
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA · GranadaSpain
  • UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS · BOGOTAColombia

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union