Multilingual Expression and Postnational Frames in <i>100% Brussels</i> and <i>Isabella’s Room</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores and compares instances of multilingual expression in contemporary postdramatic theatre that are linked to the exploration of migration, cosmopolitanism, and cross-cultural encounter. Taking Jan Lauwers and Needcompany’s Isabella’s Room and Rimini Protokoll’s 100% Brussels as examples, the case study focuses on post-epic forms of narration and covert forms of authority. Moreover, it shows how multilingual expression and speaking with accents dismantle the unity of national languages and differentiate the performing collectives in both works. At the same time, acts of communal singing and dancing evoke a coherent and self-affirmative emotional sensibility that potentially includes the audience. Both performances operate within a postnational frame: while Isabella’s Room conceptualizes Europe as a space of entanglement, 100% Brussels foregrounds immigrant subjects who position themselves as cosmopolitan citizens.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".