Layering Reality: the Right to Mask
Scenography Symposium
October 31 to November 1, 2013
Prague, Czech Republic
Registration deadline: September 5, 2013
Are you interested in stage design and theatre in its wider social context? The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space invites you to a symposium for practitioners, artists and theorists that will examine use of performance design in theatre and beyond in order to question and reclaim the place of the invisible, the imaginary and the theatrical in our lives.
Mask will be explored in a wider sense – to include a variety of covering and uncovering of body and space in performance. The aim of the symposium is to map the variety of practices of masking that exist in contemporary performance as well as their use within performance. The symposium will include longer and shorter presentations, discussions, and at least one party.
We invite proposals for presentations of primarily practical as well as theoretical examples from or connected to contemporary theatre, performance, performance art and installation questioning variety of practices of masking (and unmasking) and layering reality.
In this first ever masked symposium (speakers and audiences are strongly advised to wear masks) we will discuss masking while practicing it. Topics will include:
- Layering reality
- Masking/ Revealing
- Covering space
- Full body mask
- Costume as performance
- Scenography as uncovering, showing, discovering space
- Masking through sound or lighting
- Masking as a dramaturgical, narrative or conceptual tool
- Mask as a temporary autonomous zone
- The transformative power of masking
Conveners: Sodja Lotker, Maaike Bleeker and Julian Hetzel
Please send your proposal by September 5, 2013 through our registration form or via email. The proposal should include a max. 300 word abstract and a short bio.Practitioners should also include (max.) 2 images of their work, if applicable.
You may register HERE.
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This symposium is part of the beginning phase of the Prague Quadrennial’s long-term exploration within the SharedSpace Music Weather Politics 2013 / 2016 project.
Further information available HERE.
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Date of the symposium:
October 31 to November 1, 2013
Registration deadline:
September 5, 2013
Place:
Studio Hrdinů, National Gallery Prague
Dukelských hrdinů 47
170 00 Prague 7
Czech Republic.
Contact:
Prague Quadrennial
Arts and Theatre Institute
Celetná 17
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
For more information contact: Anna Friedländer, anna.friedlaender@pq.cz, +420 224 809 102
Organized by the Prague Quadrennial as a part of the SharedSpace: Music, Weather, Politics project.
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
Prague Quadrennial is organized and funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute.
SharedSpace is organized by Prague Quadrennial (CZ) in cooperation with:
Finnish National Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma Theatre; New Theatre Institute of Latvia; Santarcangelo dei Teatri; Victoria and Albert Museum; Theatre Faculty Utrecht School of the Arts; Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Centre for Creative Actions IMPACT Macedonia; Center for Polish Scenography, Silesian Museum; Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute; University College of Østfold, Norwegian Theater Academy; The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; School of Visual Theatre Jerusalem.
For more information visit: www.sharedspace.cz and www.pq.cz.
