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PQ Talks 11 June - Panel 3: Trans/nonbinary Scenographics
Trans/nonbinary Scenographics w/ Rachel Hann, Nic Farr, M'ck McKeague
On Atmospherics: Designing feeling in an era of climate crisis
For Atmospherics: Designing feeling in an era of climate crisis
with Rachel Hann, Cultural Scenographer,
Senior Lecturer in Performance & Design at Northumbria University, UK
in conversation with Prof. Patrick Du Wors
Dr. Hann presents a proposal for ‘atmospherics’ as a process-based, non-binary approach to stage aesthetics and a model for future eco-decolonial scenographies.
Rachel Hann and Rosie Elnile, 'Decolonizing Scenography: A case study on Rosie Elnile's Prayer'
Abstract
This presentation is part of an ongoing dialogue between a cultural scenographer (Rachel Hann) and a performance designer (Rosie Elnile) on what decolonizing scenography entails, involves and feels like. We present the case for ‘empty space’ as a colonial idea and consider alternative models of scenographic practice built for an era of climate crisis. To afford focus to this discussion, we draw upon Elnile’s re-imagined online production of Prayer (2020) that explored themes of labour, care, and decolonial politics of space. Elnile’s practice is adopted as an example of ‘post-empty’ scenographics in action and offers a burgeoning model for a possible route towards a decolonial scenography. Drawing upon designer Tanja Beer’s production model for ecoscenography and anthropologist Kirsten Simmons’s ‘settler atmospherics’, we affirm the critical role that new models of scenographic practice will take in realizing carbon budgets and the need for a decolonial aesthetics that embraces space as full, ready and situated. Consequently, we conclude with a manifesto for decolonizing scenography as embracing climate ceilings and decolonial imaginations as a critical framework for debating, challenging, and transgressing the colonial imagination of empty space.
E5 | Body Assemblages
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:
PQ2019 talk | Beyond Scenography: Acts of Transformation
My talk on Beyond Scenography from the Prague Quadrennial 2019 on Saturday 15th June 2019. Thanks to Vicente Saldanha for filming.
PQ2019 Talk | Justice Scenographics: Preparing for civilisation change
My panel on Justice Scenographics with Kenneth Bailey (Design Studio for Social Intervention) from the Prague Quadrennial 2019 on Sunday 9th June 2019. Thanks to Vicente Saldanha for filming.
E4 | Scenographic Futures
As prep for PQ2019, this latest episode on 'Scenographic Futures' insiders 9 key concepts, themes and practices that will drive scenography's future.
E3 | Scenographics: Acts of Worlding
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.
E2 | Scenic Politics: Scenes, Mise en scène, & Atmospheres
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'.
E1 | Beyond empty stages | Beyond Scenography
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.
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