Contemporary Scenography 1
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| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203ESS1 | Z | 2 | 2T | English | winter |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
We will also explore ‘theoretical’ concepts and topics, including ‘scenography’ itself, visual dramaturgy, ecoscenography, costume agency, and possibilities of decolonizing scenography.
Mode of study
Lecture.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
None.
Course contents
This course focuses on 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 contest 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 discussions of visual and audiovisual materials, as well as readings, we will analyze the works of scenographers, directors, and theatre collectives, such as Marina Abramovich, Katrin Brack, Romeo Castellucci, Heiner Goebbels and Klaus Grünberg, Robert Wilson, La Pocha Nostra, or Wooster Group.
1.11. 11.
Introduction to the course, Contemporary (Expanded) Scenography and Performance Design: Framing concepts, questions, and problems
2.18. 11.
Visual Dramaturgy and Postdramatic Theatre: Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Wooster Group
3.25. 11.
Post-anthropocentric approaches and scenographic installation: Katrin Brack, Kris Verdonck, Heiner Goebbels and Klaus Grünberg
4.2. 12.
Costume as the Protagonist: projects Extreme Costume, Tribes, Costume Agency
5.9. 12.
Sustainability in Performance Design and Ecoscenography: Tanja Beer and others
6.16. 12.
Towards decolonizing scenography and performance design: Pocha Nostra and others
Recommended or required reading
Aronson, Arnold (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Scenography. Routledge, 2020.
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. Cambridge 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. Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2019.
PQ Catalogues and on-line PQ Archive.
Additional materials will be shared in class.
Assessment methods and criteria
The condition for fulfilling the credit is participation in 5 lectures out of 6.
Further information
No schedule has been prepared for this course