Pieter Verstraete
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Pieter Verstraete is an independent theater scholar and former University Fellow to the University of Exeter. For the past 6 years, he has worked and researched in Turkey. His research splits into two strands: One is on intermedial practices in theater with a particular emphasis on sound and listening. The second concerns political and social issues, mainly playing out in the realm of Turkey-Europe relations, which includes debates on interculturalism, (post)migration, democracy, nationalism, and performative protest. He is currently developing a postdoc research that looks at artists at risk in exile. Publications include various works on sound, voice and aurality in Performance Research (2010), Theatre Noise (CSP 2011), The Legacy of Opera (Brill 2013), Disembodied Voice (Alexander Verlag 2015), and Journal of Sonic Studies (2017). His texts on the Gezi protests and Standing Man were published by IPC-Mercator (2013), the Jahrbuch Türkisch-Deutsche Studien (V&R Unipress 2014), and Praksis (2016). He is also co-editor of books: Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (CSP 2009), and Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (Routledge 2014). For more info, please visit: https://pmgverstraete.wordpress.com/.
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Pieter Verstraete is an independent theater scholar and former University Fellow to the University of Exeter. For the past 6 years, he has worked and researched in Turkey. His research splits into two strands: One is on intermedial practices in theater with a particular emphasis on sound and listening. The second concerns political and social issues, mainly playing out in the realm of Turkey-Europe relations, which includes debates on interculturalism, (post)migration, democracy, nationalism, and performative protest. He is currently developing a postdoc research that looks at artists at risk in exile. Publications include various works on sound, voice and aurality in Performance Research (2010), Theatre Noise (CSP 2011), The Legacy of Opera (Brill 2013), Disembodied Voice (Alexander Verlag 2015), and Journal of Sonic Studies (2017). His texts on the Gezi protests and Standing Man were published by IPC-Mercator (2013), the Jahrbuch Türkisch-Deutsche Studien (V&R Unipress 2014), and Praksis (2016). He is also co-editor of books: Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (CSP 2009), and Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (Routledge 2014). For more info, please visit: https://pmgverstraete.wordpress.com/.
April 5, 2018
Pieter Verstraete is an independent theater scholar who, for the past 6 years, had been working and researching in Turkey. The political development of the last years has had many effects, e.g. on the daily lives, on the arts and culture, on journalism. Verstraete is not only one of those who had to leave the country but also an expert on contemporary Turkish theater. In this very personal and moving text, he shares his impressions of the last two years and gives a brief insight into a few of the artistic consequences.