Scenographic Things / Scenography Objects The Trinity Long Room Hub welcomes TaPRA to Ireland on 23 April 2015. Scenographic Things / Scenography Objects will be the first TaPRA event to be held outside the UK and is a day-long performance research seminar organized by the TaPRA Scenography Working Group. It anticipates the 2015 Prague Quadrennial (PQ), the world’s largest scenography exhibition. The PQ adopted in 2011 the subtitle ‘of Performance Design and Space,’ responding to the progressive interdisciplinarity of its subject matter in line with the increasing globalization, mediatization and technologization of culture. Such developments raise questions about what constitutes ‘scenography’ and how it functions, which have implications for both the contemporary practice and histories of performance design worldwide. Bringing together a range of scholars and arts practitioners from the intersecting fields of theatre, performance, design and visual arts, Scenographic Things / Scenography Objects focuses on two connected, topical issues within the field: scenography’s materiality and status as a craft; and its potential to ‘object’ – to challenge tradition through its material and visual aesthetics – as part of theatre, performance or political activism. We welcome the contribution of new and transdisciplinary voices at this seminar. The event will also be open to the wider public, and we invite all participants to bring a small scenographic ‘object’ if they wish, which we hope will facilitate a final discussion of the event’s themes, in addition to a timely consideration of where the field has been, where it is, and where it is going, in a wider European context. International guest speakers include: Sodja Lotker, artistic director of the PQ; Jamie Varten, an award-winning designer of theatre, opera and dance who has worked extensively in Europe, the UK, and Ireland – where he is perhaps best known for designing recent productions of dramatist Enda Walsh’s work; and Christopher Baugh, a designer who has worked with a range of diverse theatres including the Abbey, is Emeritus Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds, and author of the ground breaking Theatre, Performance and Technology: The Development and Transformation of Scenography (Palgrave Macmillan: 2nd edition, 2014). Dublin-based visual arts organization MART, which is curating Ireland’s participation in PQ2015, will also present some of its work. TaPRA membership for the year, through which you can join all the organization’s working groups, will be available to all in attendance at the special interim event rate of £10. The Scenography Working Group actively promotes practice-as-research methods and invites proposals in a variety of different presentation formats. These formats can include, but are not limited to: • 20min paper/practice presentation • 20 min Performance Practice • 20 min PechaKucha* * A PowerPoint presentation with 20 images/sides set to automatically progress after 20 seconds. Presenters are then invited to speak alongside their images if they wish. This format is ideal for sharing image-based provocations or artistic practice in a time efficient manner. If you plan to submit a proposal that includes a technical or spatial requirement, early consultation with us is important. If this applies, please contact Siobhán O’Gorman at the email below to discuss your requirements before you submit. Proposals, including an abstract and biography (max 300 words each) responding to the title ‘Scenographic Things / Scenography Objects’ can be sent to each of the working group co-convenors by Thursday, 12 February 2015: Fred Meller, University of the Arts, London: [email protected] Siobhán O’Gorman, Trinity College Dublin: siobhanmogorman@gmail Luis Campos, Rose Bruford College, London: [email protected]
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