Month: May 2021

The Prague Quadrennial together with the Arts and Theatre Institute and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic are pleased to invite you to The Official Announcement of the 15th Edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023. That will take place online on:

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 4:00 PM CET

The official announcement will introduce the artistic concept of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and the main exhibitions’ call.

The link for online streaming will be added here on 22 June and bring you to PQ youtube channel and PQ Facebook fan page.

See more information here.

Since the beginning of PQ in the late 1960s until about the turn of the millennium, exhibitions of models, sketches of designs, performance photographs presented the international developments in scenography and were central to the Prague Quadrennial Exhibitions.

Since 2003, more and more countries have been bringing exhibitions that included performative elements, drew the viewer into new imaginary spaces, and turned audiences into active participants. The festival that gradually emerged around the main exhibitions from these impulses has grown in size and popularity. Both of these developments opened PQ to other art professions and showed the multidisciplinary nature of performance design/scenography.

The 2023 edition will recognize the need to experience performance design/scenography in its performative format: live and with audience engagement. Our recognition of these predominant trends has led us to rename PQ a festival rather than an exhibition.

Theatralia: Journal of Theatre Studies is another new resource within our PQ Knowledge Exchange Platform. 

As a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and theory, the Theatralia is issued by Masaryk University since 2009. The journal focuses on previously overlooked theatre history and theory areas, especially in the Czech cultural context. However, published articles deviate in several languages (Czech, Slovak, English, German). 

The editor-in-chief Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, a theatrologist based in Brno who led Theatralia since 2014, is interested in staging practice of opera and performance art’s analysis. Apart from achieving a high quality of the magazine, her main goal is to spread professional knowledge among the public.

See more about the journal here.