TaPRA 2019: Full Schedule

Welcome to TaPRA 2019 at the University of Exeter!

2:15pm BST

Working Group Session 1: Scenography

Session Title: Virtual, immaterial and imagined place

Presenters

Katherine Graham

Scenographic Strategies of Confined and Imagined Place(s) in Enda Walsh’s BallyturkConfinement and claustrophobic spaces are recurrent themes in the plays of Enda Walsh, whose characters are often found ‘in stifling, deteriorating physical spaces that echo both the constricted... Read More →

Kathrine Sandys

Budapestit will come later grew out of a series of residencies across Sweden, Wales, Hong Kong, Poland and Hungary, with 6 x international choreographers and 6 x makers and dramaturgs exploring and sharing their practice and processes. A sharing of cultures, borders, barriers and... Read More →

Natalie Rowland

Seeing Anew: the role of lighting in creation of place in site-generic/specific performance.This paper explores the role of lighting in creating place and the challenges and opportunities introduced by site based performance.Located somewhere between site-generic and site-specific... Read More →

Wednesday September 4, 2019 2:15pm - 4:15pm BST
Roborough: RS2

Working Group Sessions, WG: Scenography

9:30am BST

Working Group Session 2: Scenography

Session Title: Embodiment and place

Presenters

Natalie Raven

University of Plymouth

Scenography WG Presentation:Staging Bodies in Situ: Artistic Responses to Working with/in Landscape. This paper charts my experiences and critical reflections as a performance artist, in the making of visual artworks situated in landscape at locations across the UK and USA. Veiled... Read More →

Xristina Penna

Staging dis-placementIn the project ‘To You, To You, To You: Love Letters to a (Post)Europe’ (2018) (https://www.toyoutoyoutoyou.com/ ), curator-researcher Lisa Alexander invited artists to gather and to respond with the action, idea or form of a love letter. My action-response... Read More →

Rea Dennis

We are Place: The somatic of being (in) the outdoorsUsing the bodily somatic experience as a point of departure, this paper considers the relationships between audience, performers, and places through the lens of biophilia. I explore the way in which somatic practices align to biology’s... Read More →

Nick Hunt

The Lighting Laboratory - a utopian or absent place?Where lighting design is taught at undergraduate or graduate degree level – notably in the UK and USA – distinctive pedagogies have been developed, often making use of the lighting laboratory as a central teaching facility and... Read More →

Thursday September 5, 2019 9:30am - 11:00am BST
Roborough: RS2

Working Group Sessions, WG: Scenography

2:00pm BST

Working Group Session 3: Scenography

Session Title: Scenography as a mode of attention to place

Presenters

Meg Cunningham

“Place-making and scenographic world-building”In themed entertainment (TE) design, ‘place-making’ often refers to the architecture-centric portions of the theme park found in between attractions; these areas are not necessarily ‘narrative-based’ but usually highly ‘themed... Read More →

Alex Stone

Metamorphosis – how a site informs the material being presentedA talk exploring the staging of interventions and the considerations behind the adaption of materials to the environment within which they occur.As part of my current project Shoreline 20/50 I have collected Single use... Read More →

Hannah Rowlands

Drawing Attention as a Scenographic act.My presentation concerns drawing attention to embodied experience as an act of scenographic design. These scenographic processes emerged in an ethnography undertaken in 2017, in which I examined the rehearsal process of practitioners collaborating... Read More →

Thursday September 5, 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm BST
Roborough: RS2

Working Group Sessions, WG: Scenography

2:00pm BST

Working Group Session 4: Scenography

Session Title: Critical and philosophical approaches to scenographies of place

Presenters

Jonathan Croose

'Performing Places:' carnival, culture and the performance of contested national identities at the 2016 Rio Olympics. How do we define ‘place identity’ through creative, scenographic responses to place, landscape and heritage? Which ‘versions’ of place are performed through... Read More →

Cathy Turner

This year’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale proposed a citation of art works towards a ‘non-alienated life’, referencing Guy Debord, curated by artist Anita Dube.As a key commission for the three-and-a-half month long event, Dube asked Delhi architecture firm Anagram Architects to design... Read More →

Friday September 6, 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm BST
Roborough: RS2

Working Group Sessions, WG: Scenography