BOURNOT Magdalena | MaCI - Université Grenoble Alpes

Magdalena Bournot

Magdalena Bournot holds a degree in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) and a Master degree in Performing Arts from ENS Lyon. She worked as an editor at Motto Editions in Berlin, where she also trained as an assistant director, working in particular with Tatiana Stepantchenko and Friederike Heller (Deutsches Theater and ETI Berlin). In 2022, she defended her thesis at the University of Paris Nanterre, entitled "Étrangère chez soi. Les réécritures de Médée en Amérique latine (1950-2016)". She worked as an ATER at the University of Nanterre and the University of Lille in the Department of Theatre Studies. She co-founded the Compagnie d'Amaü. She has made three documentary films, the latest of which, 'Viaje a la semilla' has been selected for a number of international festivals (BAFICI, FICCI, Traces de Vies, etc.). She is currently working on a cross-disciplinary practice-based research project, Nona, which reflects on the reenactment of intimacy.

► Project at the MaCI :

Classical reception in Abdias do Nascimento and the Teatro Experimental do Negro

'Through an archive and research-as-creation work, I intend to analyze the classical reception in the theoretical writings of Afro-Brazilian artist and intellectual Abdias do Nascimento, and in the stagings he made with the Black Experimental Theater company, founded by himself in 1944 in Rio de Janeiro.

The first stage of the project methodology involves a research trip to Brazil, the main aim of which is to compile archive data and personal accounts from former T.E.N. members. Nascimento founded the Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudos Afro-Brasileiros (IPEAFRO, Institute of Afro-Brazilian Studies), whose aim is to preserve and disseminate black Brazilian history and culture. This organization is still active today, and holds a very large archive on Nascimento's work and especially on the T.E.N.’

For this research, Magdalena will be affiliated to Litt&Arts and will be working closely with Professor Malika Bastin-Hammou. As a specialist in Greek theatre and its reception, Malika Bastin-Hammou has worked on the history of translations and productions of Aristophanes. Since 2020, she has been coordinator of the ANR project IthAC, dedicated to the study of the reception of ancient theatre in Europe in the 16th century. She is also director of the Translatio research centre (part of the UMR Litt&Arts), which focuses on the transmission, translation and reception of ancient and medieval texts, and the cultural transfer phenomena that surround them.

Activities

September 26-27, 2023: "Creolising Tragedy from Brazil: Abdias do Nascimento and the Black Experimental Theatre" - International Conference: Reimagining Tragedy across Africa and the Global South, University of Oxford
October 9, 2023: Conference organized by Litt&Arts: Médée en Amérique latine : étrangère chez soi
October 12-14, 2023: Presentation at the international conference À quoi sert la tragédie Grecque aujourd'hui ? with a paper titled "S’attaquer à l’archétype : Antigone de David Gaitán (2016)" - University of Paris Nanterre, National Library of France
February 19, 2024: Presentation in the CHOROS project: "Inventing the Comic Chorus (Inventer le chœur comique, du manuscrit au plateau), from Manuscript to Stage" - More informations
March 5-8, 2024: Presentation of Ils mangeront nos arbres, ils mangeront nos pierres at the Théâtre de l'Elysée (Lyon)
March 13, 2024: Agrégation lecture on the reception of Medea
June 13, 2024: Screening of Magdalena Bournot's film "Viaje a la Semilla" as part of the doctoral days of UMR Litt&Arts "Arts and Document"

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