The special issue of Theatre and Performance Design published by Taylor & Francis is out! Why is this issue so special to us? It is all about Prague Quadrennial 2019 with the topic of Imagination. Transformation. Memory edited by Jane Collins and Arnold Aronson with the foreword written by the PQ Artistic Director Markéta Fantová.
Between material and perception: towards an aesthetics of scenography by Katherine Graham
Scenography 2019 in PQ Talks by Barbora Příhodová & Pavel Drábek
The show and gaze of intermedial interculturalism: a reflection on the curation of Otherness at PQ19 by Zheyu Wei
Porous realities, open scenography: a study of the Lebanese exhibition at PQ 2019 by Hadi Damien
Eloquent landscapes: some questions about curatorship and scenography through the experience of Catalonia’s participation in PQ19 by Bibiana Puigdefàbregas & Marta Rafa
One hundred and ninety-two thousand, two hundred and forty-eight steps: curating the Site-Specific Performance Festival at PQ 2019 by Sophie Jump
Mixing realities: reflections on presence and embodiment in intermedial performance design of Blue Hour VR by Paul Cegys & Joris Weijdom
The scenographic potential of immersive technologies: virtual and augmented reality at the Prague Quadrennial 2019 by Lucy Thornett
Curating PQ Studio 2019 by Patrick Du Wors
Transformative power of spatial memory: an interdisciplinary approach to space as performance by Jorge Palinhos , Miljana Zeković , Višnja Žugić , Attila Antal & Eric V. Dela Cruz
Collaboration despite the tyranny of distance by Jo Briscoe
PQWaltz 2019. Waltzing to a resonance room: nothing ever came out of comfort zones by Anne Habermann , Anna Luyten & Saskia Valk // Visual Essey
Following the threads of scenographic costume at PQ19 by Susan Marshall
Fragments by Klara Zieglerova
Book review // Jaroslav Malina in scenography and paintingedited by Christopher Baugh
Book review // Costume in performance: materiality, culture, and the body by Annie Holt
Book review // Immersion and participation in Punchdrunk’s theatrical worlds by Adam Alston
See the whole issue here.
Photo: David Kumermann // 36Q°