CULTURAL PRODUCTION and STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION - Changes in the Cultural Institutions of the Independent Performing Arts Community from the Perspective of Critical Whiteness

Cultural production is the production of knowledge and provides an opportunity to intervene in existing discourses regarding diversity and discrimination and thus has a critical political potential. The critical analysis of its structures, formats and practices allows it to be determined whether latent racism is subtly reproduced in representative cultural models under the cover of interculturality.

Through the use of specific examples, we will examine structural contexts, such as the hypothesis of the cultural sector, from the perspective of critical whiteness. We will ask critical questions examining how discriminating categorizations and neocolonial dichotomies are latently and structurally reproduced in the culture sector and how we, the independent performing arts community, can proactively work to bring about and support structural changes.

Participants:

Elisa Ricci
Tsepo Bollwinkel