Researching the performative interface in Rapa Nui: bridging Indigenous knowledges, colonial histories and contemporary performances.

Frontiers in research metrics and analytics Pub Date : 2025-03-21 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/frma.2025.1541522
Moira Fortin Cornejo
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My research focuses on the performing arts in Rapa Nui. I am interested in performances as ways of navigating and negotiating the complex intersections between traditional/Indigenous and contemporary/Western cultural identities. As a non-Indigenous researcher who has collaborated extensively with the Rapa Nui community, I have had to navigate the interface, learning about and engaging in diverse knowledge systems and methods. The idea of engaging with both Western and Indigenous epistemologies, reflects my belief that both bodies of work can complement one another, and reflects my desire to look at research questions from a range of different angles and perspectives, welcoming and accepting the differences and similarities between worldviews, enriching the possibilities for dialogue between cultures. My research ethos consciously focuses on the positives of cultural dialogue, with a desire to better understand and support intercultural theater practices in Rapa Nui. In my research I have utilized open-ended interviews, framed by Talanoa which is an Indigenous Pacific research methodology which involves deep, open ended discussions and listening, valuing and learning from what is shared in these dialogues and prioritizing relationships between people over rigid, predetermined research agendas. My interactions with the Rapa Nui communities have explored their perceptions of what constitutes "traditional" and contemporary theater/performance practices. The genealogy and influence that "tradition", as a colonial term, has had over Rapa Nui performing arts over time and space are explored in this article. Colonial histories have effected how contemporary performing arts have been articulated, conceptualized, produced and taught in twenty first century Rapa Nui.

研究拉帕努伊的表演界面:弥合土著知识,殖民历史和当代表演。
我的研究重点是拉帕努伊岛的表演艺术。我感兴趣的是表演作为一种导航和协商传统/本土和当代/西方文化身份之间复杂交集的方式。作为一名与拉帕努伊社区广泛合作的非土著研究人员,我必须在界面中导航,学习并参与各种知识系统和方法。参与西方和本土认识论的想法,反映了我的信念,这两个工作机构可以互补,并反映了我的愿望,从一系列不同的角度和观点来看研究问题,欢迎和接受世界观之间的差异和相似之处,丰富文化之间对话的可能性。我的研究精神有意识地集中在文化对话的积极方面,希望更好地理解和支持拉帕努伊的跨文化戏剧实践。在我的研究中,我利用了Talanoa框架下的开放式访谈,Talanoa是一种土著太平洋研究方法,它涉及深入的开放式讨论和倾听,重视和学习这些对话中共享的内容,并优先考虑人与人之间的关系,而不是僵化的,预先确定的研究议程。我与拉帕努伊人社区的互动探讨了他们对什么是“传统”和当代戏剧/表演实践的看法。本文探讨了“传统”作为一个殖民术语,在时间和空间上对拉帕努伊表演艺术的谱系和影响。殖民历史影响了当代表演艺术在21世纪拉帕努伊岛的表达、概念化、制作和教学方式。
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