This symposium will take place one year after the 13th edition of the Prague Quadrennial held in 2015 and aims to summarize the fundamental developments in the event over the last fifteen years. The symposium will have a special focus on PQ 2015, as well as explore the possibilities for the future of the Quadrennial. It will be held in the frame of the international project SharedSpace: Music Weather Politicsand it is one of the last event within the project.
In addition to the changes in quantity and size over the past decades, the Prague Quadrennial has undergone some major transformations from international ‘exhibition’ towards an ´event´ that includes many live performances, presentations, workshops and discussions. These events form a space for exchange of a wide range of scenographic (performance design) practices – from shaping performance environments to designing costumes, lighting, sound and multimedia for drama, opera and dance as well as ´expanded scenography´ genres such as site-specific, urban, embodied, immersive, interventionist and inter-medial performances. Prague Quadrennial today is an open platform for exploration and process in ´expanded scenography´, where professionals come to inspire and be inspired.
March 17 – 18, 2016
Archa Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
Convener: Sodja Lotker, SharedSpace Artistic Director
Program:
THURSDAY — March 17th, 2016
9:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:30 Opening
Sodja Lotker, Arnold Aronson, Pavla Petrová, Daniela Pařízková
10:30 – 12:00 Session 1: Overview
moderated by Arnold Aronson
Joslin McKinney: Audiencing Scenography
Tatjana Dadić Dinulović: (Do Not) Look Back in Anger
Michael Spencer: Unleashing the Scenographic
Anne Karin Ten Bosch: Scenography Still Exists After 2015?
13:00 – 14:15 Session 2: Can There Be National Reflections on 2015?
moderated by Aby Cohen
Kabyl Khalykov: Human World: How Do We Create Art and How It Changes Us?
Lucy Thornett: Australia at the PQ: Scenographic Spaces between the National and International
Patrick Du Wors:Canadian Perspectives on the Prague Quadrennial: Impact, Inspiration, Representation and Future Visions
14:30 – 15:45 Session 3: Futures
moderated by Dorita Hannah
Masoomeh Alinejad Baroogh: A Futures Study of Visual Perception and Visual Technology in the Prague Quadrennial
Bibiana Puigdefàbregas: Digital Age – Scene in 21st Century
Susanna Clemente: Forms of Migration in Contemporary Theater
16:00 – 17:15 Session 4: Spatial and Architectural
moderated by Beth Weinstein
Sidsel Graffer: In Situ. In Vitro. In Vivo. The Work/Site Relationship within Production- and Presentation Axes
Leno Veras: Charting Maps: Explorations of a Moving World
Serge von Arx: The Loss Within Contemporary Architecture
TAAT: OOSP! Here It Is!
FRIDAY — March 18th, 2016
9:00 – 11:00 Session 5: Discussion about Czech Exposition and PQ in Czech Context
moderated by Markéta Fantová, Martin Bernátek
participate Jan Dušek, Marta Ljubková, Kamila Polívková, Jana Preková, Robert Smolík, Jan Štěpánek
11:15 – 12:45 Session 6: Transformations
moderated by Daniela Pařízková
Kate Burnett: The UK at PQ: Reflection and Renewal
Marina Maleni: PQest-ions
Stefania Cenean: Prague Quadrennial
Hadi Damien: The PQ In Shape, in Core, in Means
12:45 – 14:00 Break
14:00 – 15:00 Session 7: Discussion Capturing the Full Spectrum of Scenographic Practice: Rebalancing the PQ in Light of the Now-dominate Performative Installation
moderated by Patrick Du Wors
participants TBC
15:15 – 16:00 Session 7: Education
moderated by Radivoje Dinulović
Sonia Paiva: Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory (LTC)
Jessica Bowles: The Map Is Not The Territory
16:15 – 17:15 Conclusions
moderated by Arnold Aronson
participants TBC
Aby Cohen 