Flagship Projects in 2012

I. Language Culture in Limburg

     
Principal investigator:                              Principal investigator:
prof.dr. Leonie Cornips                            Lotte Thissen (MA) (PhD candidate)

The research project Language Culture in Limburg investigates how local identities are constructed through language practices and how these are driven by power asymmetries between people living in the center and periphery. The project focusses on language practices as the locus of identity formation because language is an indispensable means for people to construct social relations and to project social identities. The center-periphery dynamics is often played out directly in terms of linguistic differentiation. Which linguistic sources do speakers appropriate to give meaning to places such as Limburg and Roermond, in particular, and to construct the linguistic 'other' within these places? Which linguistic sources are imagined as authentic, and become part of linguistic heritage? The project addresses these questions by investigating linguistic expressions of popular culture. More specifically, language-use and language-ideologies within daily situations and interactions are ethnographically investigated in the city of Roermond.

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-Personal website Leonie Cornips
-Personal website Lotte Thissen

II. Collecting the Performative

Principal investigator from FASoS:
Dr Vivian van Saaze

Collecting the Performative is a research network that brings together Dutch and British academic scholars and research practitioners. In the last decade, public and private collections have begun to acquire significant performance artworks from the 1960s and 1970s as well as works by contemporary artists. Traditionally performance art was understood to be uncollectible. Because performance art is non-material, its collection in many ways upsets museums’ long-established conservation and documentation strategies, which have been developed for material objects. By combining art-historical research with ethnographic research into museum practices, the network aims to provide more insight into the conceptual and practical challenges related to collecting and conserving these artworks.

The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek — NWO) in the Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme. FAsoS is co-applicant in this project, main applicant is Tate London.

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