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:

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

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.

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'.

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.