Contemporary Scenography 1

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Garant předmětu

Jan ŠTĚPÁNEK

Jméno vyučujícího (jména vyučujících)

Barbora Diego RIVERA PŘÍHODOVÁ

Katedra

Předmět zajišťuje Katedra scénografie

Obsah

Classes take place online 9. 10., 16. 10., 30.10., 6. 11., 13.11 and 20. 11. 2025 always at 18.00 to 19.30, link https://villanova.zoom.us/j/96613478741 [ ]

Course Decription

This course focuses on selected developments and topics in scenography of the last 50 years. We will examine practices, styles, and artistic and ideological principles of theater makers in Europe and beyond who have used performance space and design in new, unconventional ways to con-test the aesthetic, and sometimes political, norms of their communities. An important source will be Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in its transformations. Through discus-sions of visual and audiovisual materials, we will explore the work of artists, such as Robert Wilson, Heiner Goebbels and Klaus Grünberg, and Tanja Beer. We will also explore ‘theoretical’ concepts and topics, including ‘scenography’ itself, visual dramaturgy, ecoscenography, and cos-tume agency. Students are invited to bring their own examples of 'memorable' use of scenogra-phy to enrich our class discussion.

Syllabus Outline:

(subject to change)

1.Oct 9

Introduction to the course; Contemporary (Expanded) Scenography and Performance De-sign; ‘memorable’ scenography

2.Oct 16

Visual Dramaturgy and Postdramatic Theatre; early experiments of Robert Wilson

Oct 23 Class doesn’t meet

3.Oct 30

Post-anthropocentric approaches and scenographic installation; Heiner Goebbels’s colla-borations

4.Nov 6

Intersections of performance design and visual arts: Antony Gormley’s collaborations

5.Nov 13

Sustainability in Performance Design and Ecoscenography: Tanja Beer and others

6.Nov 20

Costume as the Protagonist

Výsledky učení

As a result of this course, you will be able to

• Identify some of the key personalities, themes, and concepts of recent and contemporary per-formance design in Europe, the U.S., and beyond

• Discuss different approaches to space and design in performance, and their relation to cultural and socio-political environments

• Discuss artistic works using basic critical language from theater and performance design, and scenography studies in English

• Demonstrate critical thinking and cultural sensitivity when approaching different scenographic practices

Předpoklady a další požadavky

None.

Literatura

Aronson, Arnold (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Scenography. Routledge, 2020.

Barbieri, Donatella. Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture, and the Body. Bloomsbury, 2017.

Tanja Beer. Ecoscenography: An Introduction for Ecological Design for Performance. Londýn: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Hann, Rachel: Beyond Scenography. Routledge, 2019.

Hannah, Dorita and Harsløf Olav: Performance Design. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008.

McKinney, Joslin and Phillip Butterworth: The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography. Cam-bridge University Press, 2015.

McKinney, Joslin and Scott Palmer: Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design. Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2017.

Wiens, Birgit E. Contemporary Scenography: Practices in German Theatre, Arts and Design. Me-thuen/Bloomsbury, 2019.

PQ Catalogues and on-line PQ Archive.

Additional materials will be shared in class.

Hodnoticí metody a kritéria

Participation in 4 lectures out of 6 is a condition for the credit.

Další informace

Předmět lze absolvovat opakovaně

Předmět je součástí nabídky volitelných předmětů fakulty

Rozvrh na zimní semestr 2025/2026:

Rozvrh na letní semestr 2025/2026:

Rozvrh zatím není připraven

Předmět je součástí následujících studijních plánů

• Scénografie (B.A.) (Povinně volitelné předměty)
• Scénografie - Divadelní scénografie (M.A.) (Povinně volitelné předměty)
• Scénografie - Filmová scénografie (M.A.) (Volitelné předměty)
• Scénografie - Kostým a maska (M.A.) (Volitelné předměty)