Magdalena BOURNOT | MaCI - Université Grenoble Alpes

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

October 2023 - September 2025

'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

26-27 September 2023 - Colloquium Reimagining Tragedy across Africa and the Global South 'Reimagining tragedy from Brazil: Abdias do Nascimento and the Black Experimental Theatre' - Université d'Oxford
9 October 2023 - Conference Médée en Amérique latine : étrangère chez soi - Litt&Arts
12-14 October 2024 - Colloquium À quoi sert la tragédie Grecque aujourd'hui ? - "S’attaquer à l’archétype : Antigone de David Gaitán (2016)" - Université Paris Nanterre, Bibliothèque nationale de France
19 February 2024 - Intervention Inventer le chœur comique, du manuscrit au plateau - Projet CHOROS
5-8 March 2024 - Play Ils mangeront nos arbres, ils mangeront nos pierres - Théâtre de l'Elysée (Lyon)
13 March 2024 - Agrégation lecture on the reception of Medea
13 June 2024 - Film screening Viaje a la Semilla - "Journées doctorales Arts et document" (Litt&Arts)
2 October 2024 - Play Ils mangeront nos arbres, ils mangeront nos pierres - EST (UGA)
22 November 2024 - Workshop Translatio Théâtre Expérimental Noir : une créolisation afrobrésilienne de la tragédie Grecque - Litt&Arts

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