PERFORMANCE DESIGN FUTURES 2025
Schedule
Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Sun, 23 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
ARTos Cultural and Research House | Nicosia, NI
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Performance Design Futures 2025 is an international academic symposium organized by CYCSTAT, the Cyprus Centre of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians.
This international symposium builds on Performance Design Futures 2022, aiming to generate a dialogue between key performance designers and performing arts practitioners on issues concerning the southern Mediterranean region and the Middle East, in perspective of conflict and displacement.
We are delighted for the team of keynote speakers joining us this year:
Dr Dorita Hannah (NZ), independent academic
Professor Pamela Howard, OBE
Dr Sofia Pantouvaki (FI/GR), Aalto University
This editions theme is:
Scenographies of the Here and Now: Navigating Conflict, Division, and Displacement
During this three day Symposium, we will be exploring scenographic practices in relation to conflict, displacement, and collective memory.
In the 21st century, conflict and division have continued to influence various aspects of public and artistic life, and as conflicts in the Middle East and Europe escalate, they have become a central point of reference. New forms of participation, protest, and solidarity have challenged institutional structures. The arts have the ability not only to highlight crises and divisions but also to explore ways to build communities through shared values and social models.
What does the large-scale movement of people across regional, national and continental borders imply for performance? What type of theatre is emerging in the context of conflict and displacement? How are performance traditions affected as they cross these borders? And how does performance maintain connections among communities dispersed by conflict?
We will be examining themes of:
*Scenographies of care and resistance
*Borders, Boundaries, Edges
*Theatre in conflict zones, refugee camps and other areas of displacement
*Dramaturgies of memory
*Dramaturgies of conflict inflicted spaces
*Embodied materialities
*Investigative scenography and forensic architecture
*Political acts of scenography
*Objects and materialities of war
Curatorial team:
Mariza Bargilly, Scenographer/ Visual Artist
Dr Marina Hadjilouca, Performance Designer and Academic
Eleni Ioannou, Performance Designer
more info: www.performancedesignfutures.com
*The event is sponsored by the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy ministry of Culture.
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Where is it happening?
ARTos Cultural and Research House, Λεωφόρος Αγίων Ομολογητών 64, 1080 Λευκωσία, Κύπρος,Nicosia, CyprusEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
