This episode is based on a talk I gave for Innovative Costume of the 21st Century in Moscow, June 2019. It explores the idea of body assemblages as related to costume practices and design. It ends with a manifesto (detailed below) with the episode structured in five parts:

2:14 - 'The Body'

3:25 - Body Assemblages

5:26 - What can costume do?

7:38 - Bodies as intersectional

10:03 - Costume Orientations

11:41 - Kinaesthetic Empathy

15:53 - Manifesto

Manifesto for Body-Assemblages:

Bodies are always in process; an assemblage of parts

Body-assemblages perform differently each and every time (even if only at a cellular level)

Costuming others the normative body-assemblage

Costumes show the labour of appearance through acts of appearance

If bodies are assemblages,then costuming affords a methodology for complicating how bodies fit together.

Costume celebrates the power of non-human materials to affect very human acts of sociality and togetherness.

Costuming exposes the myth of ‘the body’; bodies are always multiple, porous and in process.

Costume investigates bodies caught in the act of appearance.

As prep for PQ2019, this latest episode on 'Scenographic Futures' insiders 9 key concepts, themes and practices that will drive scenography's future. Includes:

0:55 - Changing the question

2:30 - Radical Gestures (costume & sound)

4:15 - Scenography as Formative

6:18 - Atmosphere

8:00 - Augmentation

11:11 - Rethinking Nature

14:58 - 'Space' Obsession

16:47 - Potentiality

19:39 - Feeling

This episode outlines one of the conclusions of Beyond Scenography. 'Scenographics' are approached as the place orientating traits of stage material cultures, inclusive of theatre and dance, as well as gardening, installation art, interior design, visual merchandising etc. Accordingly, the episode provides an overview of how scenographics relate to established positions on performance theory as well as scenographic practices.

Episode II of the Beyond Scenography series looks at the possible distinctions between notions of 'the scenic' and that of 'scenes'. This debate considers how landscape is appreciated through the aesthetic politics of the picturesque and what this tells us about the potentiality of scenes as 'things that happen'. It also maps out some of the discussions in the book on stage atmospheres and the affective potential of scenographic assemblages.

Beyond Scenography (Routledge, 2018) is my first book that proposes a renewed theory of scenography and scenographics. In this accompanying vlog series, I expand upon the key arguments featured in the book and provide a guide for students and practitioners when considering how to adopt these positions within their own work.

In this episode entitled 'Beyond empty stages', I outline what a scenographic approach reveals about the notion of an ‘empty space’ and how stages become manifest. I'll get a better mic for the future episodes ;-)

Buy the book on amazon or at:

https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-Scenography/Hann/p/book/9781138785069