TaPRA 2021, 6-10 Sept, online & co-hosted by Liverpool Hope University, Scenography Working Group CfP: Radical Scenographies: Reimagining Community and Identity
Deadline: April 9, 2021
For this meeting, we are keen to explore the ways in which the relational nature of scenography structures and invites experiences of community, and the ways in which the materiality and agency of scenography might incite, influence, or shape radical reimaginings of space, place and identity. Across physical and digital work, design-led and material thinking offers a rich and productive lens through which to consider transformational experiences for audiences, participants and creatives....
TaPRA 2020, 2 – 4 September, Liverpool Hope University, Scenography Working Group CfP: Relational Scenographies: Influence, Invite, Engage!
Deadline: April 17, 2020
Design-led and material thinking offer a rich and productive lens through which to consider transformational experiences for audiences, participants and creatives. Scenography, as an event of encounter and a mode of thinking and of being in the world presents a rich opportunity to critically explore the agentive capacities of performance materials and processes. As recent scholarship has firmly established the ‘relational nature of much expanded scenography underscores the potential of the...
TaPRA 2019, Exeter, Scenography WG CfP: Scenography and the staging of place
Deadline: April 16, 2019
The Scenography Working Group invites proposals for our forthcoming meeting at the annual TaPRA conference in Exeter in September 2019, on the theme of scenography and the staging of place.
In both its theory and its practice, scenography traverses concrete and conceptual engagements with place. On the one hand, it is concerned with the aesthetic, material, and affective properties of objects, spaces, materials, and how these negotiate their relationships with their surroundings and their...
TaPRA 2018, Aberystwyth, Scenography WG, Call for papers: Scenography/Landscape
Deadline: April 20, 2018
The Scenography Working Group invites proposals for our forthcoming meeting at the annual TaPRA conference in Aberystwyth in September 2018. Inspired by the landscapes surrounding the site on which the conference will take place, this year’s Scenography Working Group will focus on the theme of landscape.
What are scenographic landscapes? How does scenography interface with landscape as sites – rural and urban? What are the politics of place as location? How do representations of landscape...
Call for Proposals – Scenography in Exhibition & The Museum
Deadline: March 16, 2018
Call for Proposals, TaPRA Scenography Working Group Interim Event 2018
TaPRA Scenography Working Group
Scenography in Exhibition & The Museum
6th April 2018, V&A
The Scenography Working Group invites proposals for our forthcoming interim event taking place at the V&A on Friday 6th April 2018. This meeting will focus on questions around scenography in exhibition and the museum.
Expanded scenography has, with the emergence of the experience economy, become an experiential strategy...
Scenography and The Body: Movement, Gesture, Sensation
Deadline: April 13, 2017
The Scenography Working Group invites proposals for our forthcoming meeting at the annual TaPRA conference in Salford in September 2017. This year’s meeting will focus on questions around the body: movement, gesture and the sensory experience in scenographic practice.
In June 2016 an experiment at Sadlers Wells, introduced scenographic elements of dance performance, without the dancer: No Body. This immersive, multi-installation piece presented light and sound commissions by Michael Hulls,...
