Global Shakespeare at Istanbul Bilgi University by Alexa Alice Joubin in Türkiye

Heterotopia, as a parallel space that contains and evokes other spaces, exists in reality (such as a theatre stage) and holds up a mirror to other realities. In her talk at the Istanbul Bilgi University in Türkiye, Alexa Alice Joubin argues that the performance space is a mediated social construct that generates site-specific epistemology.
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00:10 Introduction of Joubin
00:50 All plays exist simultaneously in several dramaturgically construed localities, including where the story is set, where it is performed, and where the actors and audiences have been.
02:45 Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare by Joubin
03:17 Heterotopia
06:37 Makibefo
07:58 Yukio Ninagawa's Hamlet as heterotopia
13:57 Other examples of heterotopia
16:23 Functions of heterotopia
17:06 Q&A: Language as heterotopia
18:50 Q&A: Comment by Sandra Young (University of Cape Town)
19:36 Q&A: Race & gender in heterotopia, Subhankar Bhattacharya
21:37 Joubin's open-access textbook
26:20 Conclusion
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Global performances of Shakespeare create worlds within worlds by combining the plays’ and audiences’ senses of place to build cultural spaces that are transformative. Heterotopia, created by the craft of world-making, anchors, enables and endorses some characters’ transformative experiences and self-discovery. Heterotopia pushes back against the illusions of Shakespeare’s ubiquity and universal meanings by pluralizing the aesthetic and political positions across and within artistic, scholarly and pedagogical communities.
Joubin's paper was delivered at the conference on Our Glocal Shakespeare: Intercultural Encounters With the Bard, organized by Murat Öğütcü, 19-20 April, 2024.