This dossier explores the ways in which theatre and performance practitioners across the globe have addressed the deeply gendered modes of differential access to public spaces, institutional support, and resources through their creative as well as activist work, during the pandemic and its aftermath. In the last three years, the pandemic has transformed experiences of urban space globally. Access to public space has always been gendered as well as shaped by geographical location, race, caste, class and sexual identity. These traditional modes of differential access have been radically reorganized by the isolation and uncertainty engendered by the global pandemic. While ‘working from home’ was certainly not an option for everyone (most notably, care-workers in an overwhelmingly feminized profession), confinement to domestic space also meant escalating incidents of gendered violence for others. Additionally, the lack of sustainable income opportunities meant, as contributions to this dossier will demonstrate, the stripping away of roofs from over the heads of vulnerable citizens, whether impoverished artistes in want of state support or migrant workers on an uncertain daily wage. Staying at home was no longer an option, because ‘home’ often ceased to exist as a viable shelter, whether literally or by implication. For performers and theatre-workers all over the world, it was a time of intensified precarity: not only a loss of employment and income, but also a growing sense of artistic and professional purposelessness. While some were able to reorient this bewilderment through virtual and digital performances, for many grassroots performers, especially in the global South, access to these modes of public engagement were limited. In countries like India, street theatre activists felt unable and unwilling to switch to the digital space, while the prohibition on public assembly struck an irrevocable blow to women's protest movements.

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档案——城市空间谈判：当代性别表现中的准入、关怀和限制

本档案探讨了全球戏剧和表演从业者在疫情期间及其后果中如何通过其创造性和积极性工作，解决公共空间、机构支持和资源获取差异化的深刻性别模式。在过去三年中，这一流行病改变了全球城市空间的体验。进入公共空间一直是性别化的，并受到地理位置、种族、种姓、阶级和性别认同的影响。由于全球大流行造成的孤立和不确定性，这些传统的差别准入模式已被彻底重组。虽然“在家工作”当然不是每个人的选择（尤其是女性化职业中的护理人员），但限制在家庭空间也意味着对其他人的性别暴力事件不断升级。此外，正如本档案的贡献所表明的那样，缺乏可持续的收入机会意味着弱势公民的生存空间被剥夺，无论是需要国家支持的贫困艺术家还是日薪不确定的农民工。呆在家里不再是一种选择，因为“家”往往不再作为一个可行的庇护所存在，无论是字面意思还是隐含意义。对于世界各地的表演者和戏剧工作者来说，这是一个更加不稳定的时期：不仅失去了就业和收入，而且还日益感到艺术和职业的无目的感。虽然一些人能够通过虚拟和数字表演重新调整这种困惑，但对于许多草根表演者来说，尤其是在南半球国家，获得这些公众参与模式的机会有限。在印度等国家，街头戏剧活动人士感到无法也不愿意转向数字空间，而公共集会的禁令对妇女抗议运动造成了不可挽回的打击。