Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1782149
Anne Habermann, Anna Luyten, S. Valk
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Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1771941
Jorge Palinhos, Miljana Zeković, Višnja Žugić, Attila Antal, Eric V. Dela Cruz
ABSTRACT ‘The Quest: Performing with the Ghost’ was an interdisciplinary four-day workshop that took place in the abandoned school of Nova Strašnicka Škola, in Prague, under the aegis of PQ 2019. It was mentored by three architects, two directors and a dramaturg and playwright, sharing different approaches to explore and develop performances based on the specific properties of the space. The workshop was prepared in advance, based on discussions and the sharing of ideas and concepts. Each mentor was allowed to present their approach with the participants and the end result was an interdisciplinary exhibition. This interdisciplinary approach promoted the discussion of different spatial methodologies and raised the awareness of the participants to the different physical, material, sensorial, phenomenological, emotional and performative approaches to space. In this article, we propose to systematize and present some of the different methods employed in the workshop. We will briefly give the theoretical framework of each exercise undertaken by the participants, and discuss their potentialities as tools for exploring, transforming and performing spatial events, allowing space to be seen as a performative agent, an inspiration, a tool or an event.
{"title":"Transformative power of spatial memory: an interdisciplinary approach to space as performance","authors":"Jorge Palinhos, Miljana Zeković, Višnja Žugić, Attila Antal, Eric V. Dela Cruz","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1771941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1771941","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘The Quest: Performing with the Ghost’ was an interdisciplinary four-day workshop that took place in the abandoned school of Nova Strašnicka Škola, in Prague, under the aegis of PQ 2019. It was mentored by three architects, two directors and a dramaturg and playwright, sharing different approaches to explore and develop performances based on the specific properties of the space. The workshop was prepared in advance, based on discussions and the sharing of ideas and concepts. Each mentor was allowed to present their approach with the participants and the end result was an interdisciplinary exhibition. This interdisciplinary approach promoted the discussion of different spatial methodologies and raised the awareness of the participants to the different physical, material, sensorial, phenomenological, emotional and performative approaches to space. In this article, we propose to systematize and present some of the different methods employed in the workshop. We will briefly give the theoretical framework of each exercise undertaken by the participants, and discuss their potentialities as tools for exploring, transforming and performing spatial events, allowing space to be seen as a performative agent, an inspiration, a tool or an event.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"24 1","pages":"130 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82755136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1785229
S. Marshall
ABSTRACT Scenographic costume is wearable scenography that has the ability to instigate performance and tell a story in its own right. The tradition of performance defining scenographic costume can be traced back to the theatrical experimentations of the artistic movements of the early twentieth century. At several points in history, scenographic costume has been used as a means to explore diverse social, cultural and political questions, and the different examples of scenographic costume at PQ19, as well as recent research by scholars such as Donatella Barbieri and Sofia Pantouvaki, prove that costume can still be a powerful and meaningful tool with which to explore and research a wide range of pertinent themes. Following the threads through the Prague Exhibition Grounds and the Industrial Palace, this article reflects on the subtle but omnipresent nature of scenographic costume at PQ19, where mushrooms popped up on heads, fish rushed in from the rain, and a plumber's skirt was inflated by singing housewives.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1782150
A. Holt
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Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1793874
Zheyuan Wei
ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on the theatrical gaze that the author encountered in the 2019 PQ exhibition and PQ-commissioned performances. PQ calls for skills in curating performance designs that carry culture-specific symbols and that aim to represent certain cultures. Meanwhile as communication technology and digital media have brought intercultural exchange to a daily level, cultural icons at an international exhibition no longer easily shock audiences. Therefore, the intermediality of the theatrical gaze in PQ often succeeds in defying Orientalist impulses and enables ‘interweaving performance cultures' (in Erika Fischer-Lichte’s sense). However, due to some institutional and cultural barriers, it is still difficult for interdisciplinary art works, which are increasingly prominent not only in the exhibition but also in the performance space across the world in general, to emerge from China so as to effectively take part in the PQ discourse. These kinds of barriers must be removed if PQ is to engage with more performance cultures and support more creative arts with a cosmopolitan spirit. Perhaps the solution is to step out of institutionalized curation. Some case studies of student-led collaboration will be presented to shed light upon how innovative interdisciplinary works can be facilitated.
{"title":"The show and gaze of intermedial interculturalism: a reflection on the curation of Otherness at PQ19","authors":"Zheyuan Wei","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1793874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1793874","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on the theatrical gaze that the author encountered in the 2019 PQ exhibition and PQ-commissioned performances. PQ calls for skills in curating performance designs that carry culture-specific symbols and that aim to represent certain cultures. Meanwhile as communication technology and digital media have brought intercultural exchange to a daily level, cultural icons at an international exhibition no longer easily shock audiences. Therefore, the intermediality of the theatrical gaze in PQ often succeeds in defying Orientalist impulses and enables ‘interweaving performance cultures' (in Erika Fischer-Lichte’s sense). However, due to some institutional and cultural barriers, it is still difficult for interdisciplinary art works, which are increasingly prominent not only in the exhibition but also in the performance space across the world in general, to emerge from China so as to effectively take part in the PQ discourse. These kinds of barriers must be removed if PQ is to engage with more performance cultures and support more creative arts with a cosmopolitan spirit. Perhaps the solution is to step out of institutionalized curation. Some case studies of student-led collaboration will be presented to shed light upon how innovative interdisciplinary works can be facilitated.","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"36 1","pages":"37 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78547545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1798193
C. Baugh
{"title":"Jaroslav Malina in scenography and painting","authors":"C. Baugh","doi":"10.1080/23322551.2020.1798193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2020.1798193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37207,"journal":{"name":"Theatre and Performance Design","volume":"48 1","pages":"187 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90675617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1782148
K. Graham
ABSTRACT The thematic framing for PQ 2019, ‘imagination, transformation, and memory’, speaks to a cycle of creative processes at the heart of both performance design and reception. More deeply, the central idea of transformation points to a kind of radical instability that is fundamental to scenography. This article explores the stakes at play in scenographic transformations to posit an aesthetics of performance design that is rooted not in the visual, but in the confluence of the experiential and the material. It will argue that the ever-present possibilities of change in a constructed or curated scenographic encounter generate a sense of instability through which the active experience of perception is brought to the fore. Thus, the aesthetic experience constitutes – as Martin Seel argues – a radical sense of presence in the here and now. This article sets out an aesthetics of scenography grounded in temporal encounters with the unstable. Moreover, I will argue that the experience of scenography is in itself a site of instability, eliding as it does the aesthetic framework articulated by Seel and those contained in Graham Harman’s ideas of object-oriented ontology. Thus, the instability of performance materials constitutes a unique form of aesthetic experience in scenography.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-15DOI: 10.1080/23322551.2020.1798094
Bibiana Puigdefàbregas, Marta Rafa
ABSTRACT Scenographic activity involves composing complex landscapes that, beyond being evocative due to their possible visual impact, are powerful because of their inherent eloquent capacity. Thus, the scenographer is, somehow, a dramaturge by definition. It is this nature that is worth exploring in the context of the PQ, a space in which to share scenographic research work developed through artistic practice to question the profession and enrich it. In doing so, it explores its critical and transformative capacity in society and thereby makes sense of it. Our aim in this article is to reflect on these themes by revisiting all our ideas as curators of one of the participating countries in PQ19.
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