Deadline: March 10, 2025
27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick
Theme: Making and Doing Scenography
For the TaPRA annual conference at University of Warwick, the Scenography working group invites contributions that concern acts of making and doing scenography. Drawing from Rachel Hann’s understanding of “scenography as an act of place orientation” (2019, p.19), the crafting of which is “a process of material acclimatization that occurs in time” (2019, p.19, emphasis in original), as well as Brejzek’s...
Deadline: April 10, 2024
Enduring Scenographies
For the TaPRA annual conference at Northumbria, the Scenography working group invites contributions around the theme of endurance and duration. Etymologically linked, both words signal a relationship with the temporal aspects of performance, with the former expressing graft, tenacity or suffering as time passes.
Survival can also be about keeping one’s hopes alive; holding on to the projects that are projects insofar as they have yet to be realized. You might...