Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates how their aims, concerns and practices overlap through shared interests in space, action and event. Through a wide range of international examples and contributions from scholars and practitioners, it offers readers an analytical survey of current practices and equips them with the tools for analyzing site-specific and immersive theatre and performance.
The essays in this volume, contributed by leading theorists and practitioners from both disciplines, focus on three key sites of encounter:
Projects: examines recent trends in architecture for performance;
Practices: looks at cross-currents in artistic practice, including spatial dramaturgies, performance architectonics and performative architectures; and
* Pedagogies: considers the uses of performance in architectural education and architecture in teaching performance.
The volume provides an essential introduction to the ways in which performance and architecture, as socio-spatial processes and as things made or constructed, operate as generating, shaping and steering forces in understanding and performing the other.
Performing Architectures : Projects, Practices, Pedagogies
Description
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction - Andrew Filmer and Juliet Rufford
Part I Projects
2 What Might Be A Nietzschean Architecture? – Dorita Hannah, University of Tasmania, Australia
3 Factory, Street and Theatre in Brazil: Two Theatres by Lina Bo Bardi – Evelyn Furquim Werneck, Lima Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4 Imaginative Configurations: Performance Space in the Global City – Klaus van den Berg, Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee, USA
5 The Play of Place: Producing Space and Theatre near Mumbai – Himanshu Burte, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
6 KHOR II: An Architecture-as-Theatre Project by TAAT – Breg Horemans and Gert-Jan Stam
Part II Practices
7 Living Between Architectures: Inhabiting Clifford McLucas's Built Scenography – Mike Pearson, Pearson Architects) and Cathy Turner, University of Exeter, UK
8 Occupying the Scene: Architectural Experience in Theatre and Performance – Andrew Filmer, Aberystwyth University, UK
9 Housing Acts: Performing Public Housing – David Roberts, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
10 Double Visions: Architectural Models in Performance - Natalie Rewa, Queen's University, Canada
11 In Orbit of Dead Man Friend – Alex Schweder, University of Cambridge, UK
Part III Pedagogies
12 Towards a Tectonics of Devised Performance: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Learning/Teaching – Juliet Rufford, University of Exeter, UK
13 Bringing Performance into Architectural Pedagogy – Beth Weinstein, University of Arizona, USA
14 The Watermill Center: An Interview with Robert Wilson – Andrew Filmer
References
Index
Author Description
Andrew Filmer is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK.
Juliet Rufford is Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.