Architecture Open Lab - Call for Participants

The Architecture Section of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, asking “what is a theatre now and what could it be next?” will include also an Open Laboratory where selected participants will collaborate and work with renowned international experts in theatre architecture, theory, and design to propose alternative models for citing performance.

Deadlines for Open Laboratory:
Applications: 31 October 2010.
Announcement of selection: 30 November 2010

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Symposium On Curating in Évora, September 27-29

The third and last Scenography Expanding symposium before the June 2011 Prague Quadrennial will be held in Évora, Portugal in September, within the Festival Escrita na Paisagem.

Registration for participation is still possible, click here for more information and the registration form.

The symposium is a part of the Scenography Expanding symposia within the Intersection project.
More information about the project.

PQMX2011 in Mexico City

The curatorial team of the Mexican PQ exhibition will present Mexican participation at the PQ2011 as well as former Mexican participations - including the Golden Medal for the best costume in 2007 and the Honorific Mention for Jorge Ballina in 2003 - on August, 24th in Mexico City.

See more information here or on the website www.pqmx2011.org. whole news

August 13-28: PQ preparation in New Zealand

LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK.

If you are close by New Zealand, have a look at the program of LIVE.REPEAT.PLAYBACK, a two-week programme of performance events, workshops, panel sessions, and exhibitions, organized by the curators of New Zealand PQ exhibition, with the aim to generate discussion, ideas, and directions for the three New Zealand Exhibitions: National, Student and Theatre Architecture, participating at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial.

LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK. will explore the emerging paradigms of performance in Aotearoa New Zealand; support the creation of innovative, experimental and unique performative works; develop collective expertise to contribute to, as well as respond to, the rapidly changing performing arts and creative industries.

LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK. is held in New Zealand in August 13-28.

See the program and more information here.

30.7.: deadline for Call for paper On Curating

Scenography Expanding 3: On Curating
You can submitt your paper until July, 30th for the symposium held in Évora, Portugal, on September 27 – 29, 2010.
In the third and last symposium of the Scenography Expanding symposia within the Intersection project of hte Prague Quadrennial, curators and artists from the performing arts, visual arts and spatial design disciplines are invited to enter into a transdisciplinary dialogue on the challenges of exhibiting the ephemeral, the fleeting, the immaterial – the performative event and the scenographic space.
Deadline for submission of papers: 30.7.2010
Find here more information and the application form

Follow the symposium online from July 8-10th!

You can follow Expanding Scenography 2: On Artists/ Authors online. This symposium will be held in Belgrade from July 8-10th.

Speakers will include: RoseLee Goldberg (USA, performance theorist), Claudia Bosse (Austria, director), Arnold Aronson (USA, theorist), Rolf Abderhalden (Columbia, scenographer and director), Oren Sagiv (Israel, architect and scenographer), Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium, visual artist), Ulla von Brandenburg (Germany, visual artist), Miodrag Šuvaković (Serbia, theorist), and Terike Haapoja (Finland, visual artist).

Find more information about the symposium and the detailed program here.
For the streaming go here.

Call for paper - symposium On Curating

Scenography Expanding 3: On Curating

September 27 – 29, 2010
Évora, Portugal

In the third and last symposium of the Scenography Expanding symposia within the Intersection project of hte Prague Quadrennial, curators and artists from the performing arts, visual arts and spatial design disciplines are invited to enter into a transdisciplinary dialogue on the challenges of exhibiting the ephemeral, the fleeting, the immaterial – the performative event and the scenographic space.

Deadline for submission of papers: 30.7.2010
Find here more information and the application form

Symposium in Belgrade July 8-10- the program

The program of the Scenography Expanding 2: On Artists/Authors symposium held in Belgrade on July 8-10 is available on the Intersection website - see the program here. whole news

Scenofest 2011-call for workshop leaders

Scenofest 2011 launched with call for workshops leaders

Join us in June 2011 for workshops and design led performance and for the first time the possibility to create a site-specific performance or installation - all right in the heart of Prague!
Scenofest is an opportunity for students and young artists from all over the world to meet and actively interact with some of the top world professionals in the field.
More information on the Scenofest website

Workshop in Hungary on April 30th