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The film describes the story of turning a XIX Ct. residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine into the facility for a known resident repertory theatre company. The planning, design, and construction lasted for more than 20 years and went into several stages of re-designing. The current version, supported by the private funding of the incumbent President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, caused a lot of controversy and public outrage about the exterior look of the building that, as the protesters think, does not fit the historical and architectural context of the neighbourhood. The film presents different opinions and shows how, despite the controversial exterior, the interior of the building and stage technologies utilized in it not only serve the needs of a resident company but make the facility arguably the most technically advanced in the nation.

Country/Region Ukraine

Designer Architect  Oleg  Drozdov (UA)

Project Collaborators
Architect:  Oleg  Drozdov
Consultant: Vitaly Malakhov
Theatre Engineer: Oleksandr Riabenko
Conceived  and Edited:   by Pavlo Bosyy

Video Collaborators
Aleksandr  Kozachenko
Camera by SKRYPIN.UA
Сніданок з 1+1
Еспресо
Страна.UA
www.5.UA
Голос.UA

Additional Collaborators
Alla Serhijko, Oksana Palanychko

Venue Contact
Web: http://theatreonpodol.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/podiltheatre/

Designer Contact
Web: http://drozdov-partners.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/drozdov.partners/

The Living Stage NYC explores how community engaged performance spaces can foster dialogue and build social capital. The Living Stage is a global initiative which combines stage design, horticulture and community engagement to create recyclable, biodegradable, biodiverse and edible performance spaces. The Living Stage NYC took place in Meltzer Towers Courtyard on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in collaboration with a vibrant cohort of linguistically and ethnically diverse seniors, fifth graders and gardener-residents. Over the course of six weeks, the asphalt lined park was transformed into a space of lush greenery along with vibrant art installations and eclectic performances that celebrated the community’s identity and potential.

Country/Region USA

Designer Tanja Beer, Superhero Clubhouse, XDEA Architects and University Settlement (US, AU)

Project Collaborators
Lead Artist/Designer: Tanja Beer
Co-producer/Project Director: Superhero Clubhouse
Co-producer: University Settlement
Co-designer: XDEA

Video Collaborator
Dylan Lopez

Designer Contact
Web: https://ecoscenography.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/SuperheroClubhouse/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ecoscenography/
TW: https://twitter.com/TheLivingStage

Punctum’s Public Cooling House is part art house, part bath house. It takes some of the big questions surrounding our “water future” and turns them into a participatory experience of reflection. It provides a public gathering place to beat the heat in a public garden or park setting for our increasingly hot and dry times.

The Public Cooling House is a flat pack, low impact design combining a contemporary interpretation of desert architecture with natural materials and cooling practices to create a poetic system of public cooling. Drawing from simple, ancient evaporative cooling techniques such as the Australian Coolgardie Safe and Syrian wind catchers, its interior includes individual cooling pools and water works by exceptional artists responding to how we might contend with heat waves, water scarcity, and brown outs. The walls are of sustainably grown Australian Hoop Pine ply perforated with a replicated Coolgardie Safe wall pattern. The roof is made from fire proofed canvas woven in Australia and custom made. We use yachting and trucking strapping connecting elements to bring everything together. There are no nails.

In this intimate “house of cooling”, Cooling House Attendants draw from traditional cooling techniques, our relationship with the immensity of climate change, and an imagined “water future” to refresh our bodies and invigorate our sense memories.

A biologist might say it is a semi permeable system of “membranes” surrounding fluid living systems. For audiences in a climate change setting, it’s a cool place for a hot future.

Country/Region Australia

Designer Punctum Inc (AU)

Project Collaborators
Concept, Co-Design and Artistic Director: Jude Anderson
Co-Design, Drawings, and Construction Co-Ordinator: Morwenna Schenck
Design Assistant: Margot Lapalus
Project Administration: Adrian Corbett
Construction Assistant: Jimmy Naylor
Soundscape Artist – Jacques Soddell
Director’s Assistant And Lead Performer: Tanguy Trillet
Stage And Assistant Site Management:  Tegan Lang
Emerge Multi-Cultural Facilitator: Forest Keegel

Video Collaborators
Artistic Director: Jude Anderson
Filming and Editing: Ideas Agency, Miles Bennett

There are no limitations for an artistic concept or expression of performance and submissions may involve a single or many performers (or none at all). The work should, however, be created by current students or emerging artist who graduated in the last 5 years.

There is no prescribed theme for PQ Studio: Festival. However, we are especially interested in submissions where performance design is a strong and integral element of performance. We are less interested in conceptual, directorial, or dramaturgical approaches where performance design plays a subservient roll.

Absolutely! PQ Studio: Festival accepts submissions from all types of performance, including theatre, music-theatre, opera, dance, performance art, puppetry, and new circus.

There are no pre-requisites to lead a workshop or masterclass as part of PQ Studio. We are looking for professionals, educators, arts administrators, and emerging artists to lead workshops from all areas of the visual and performing arts:  performance design (scenography, costume design, lighting design, sound design, projection/digital media design), architecture, puppetry, technical theatre, dance and choreography, theatre theory, history & criticism, as well as visual & fine art. The curator will primarily be looking at the quality, thoughtfulness, relevance, and feasibility of the workshop proposal, with previous experience and qualifications being a secondary consideration.