Formations includes artists of all genres who create clearly distinguishable art works rooted in pattern: patterns in time, space, sound, movements, bodies and/or materials. The performances or actions can be presented anytime day or night, for as long or as short as the artist wishes, and can occur once, or can be repeated at chosen intervals. Curators of the section are D. Chase Angier and Serge von Arx.
Important dates
Deadline for submission was on 28 February 2018.
Editors: Sofia Pantouvaki, Sodja Lotker
ISBN 978-80-7008-384-0
Pages: 122
Language: English
Published: 2017
The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2015 included a project, the Tribes walking exhibition. In the Tribes, the artefacts of the exposition were masked living people, while the exhibitions´ scenography were the public spaces of Prague. This book was conceived as a witness of the Tribes as well as a platform for an insightful analysis of the project.
Prague Quadrennial is asking architects/space creators and performance designers to participate in a competitive exhibition by sending us short videos about projects realized in past 6 years. All submissions need to show the space as well as how it is used in performance. All submitted videos must include a dialogue between the space creator (architect) and the performance designer/s or performers using the space. The documentary video can be made on a smartphone and shouldn’t exceed 5 minutes.
Important Dates
Deadline for Submissions was extended until 31 August 2018.
New Approaches to Scenography Prague Quadrennial 2015
Editors: Sodja Zupanc Lotker, Branislava Kuburović
ISBN 978-80-7008-365-9
Pages: 192
Language: English
Published: 2016
Sharedspace was three-years international scenographic explorational and artistic project that consisted of series of symposiums, experimental exhibitions (with topic Music, Weather, Politics) and the education program Spacelab consisting of workshop series, student performances, installations, and international collaborations taking place 2013 – 2016 in several European countries. Over 65 000 professionals, students and spectators from the whole world joined Sharedspace project.
Editors: Sodja Lotker, Daniela Pařízková, Ondřej Svoboda, Lucie Čepcová, curators of individual projects
ISBN: 978-80-7008-350-5
Pages: 400
Languages: English / Czech
Published: 2015
Catalogue of 13th edition of PQ 2015.
NON-COMPETITIVE FESTIVAL
Curated by Sophie Jump
7-15 June
Výstaviště Praha (Prague Exhibition Grounds)
The Festival takes place outdoors in the Industrial Palace Exhibition Grounds, the adjoining Stromovka Park, and the city of Prague. Surrounding the Industrial Palace, the Exhibition Grounds consist of jumbled, aesthetically confused places where successive regimes have randomly placed buildings, structures or landscapes on top of one another to represent their view of leisure or culture. In contrast Stromovka Park, a former royal hunting ground, is a beautifully manicured natural landscape; whilst performances in the city will take audiences from familiar to little-known locations. Each performance encourages audiences to experience the complex, interlocking layers of the sites, visible and invisible, through interactions that are unusual, exciting or even, perhaps, thought provoking.
Site Specific Performance Festival is part of EMERGENCE. From shared experience to new creativity. Living Heritage/Reframing Memory.
7 Day Experimental Performance Event
Curated by D. Chase Angier & Serge von Arx
7-13 June
Plaza of the Industrial Palace (Prague Exhibition Grounds)
Artists and architects from around the world bring distinct approaches in their fields and the curiosity to enter into experimental performative conversations in the urban context to present unique contributions that will become part of a larger co-creation. Each project focuses on clearly defined patterns and their arbitrary but symbiotic interweaving in the public space. The works intersect at random moments with the open environment, the public, the weather, and other selected works performed near and passing through another. The resulting disruptions and frictions will expand the individual contributions as they become part of a continuous whole unfolding across the vast square in front of the Industrial Palace.
WORKSHOPS, MASTERCLASSES
Curated by Markéta Fantová and Jan K. Rolník
8 – 16 June
Small Sports Hall
Our global society seems to be obsessed with fast paced progress of technology and elevates rational intellectual and scientific pursuits above arts that are intuitive and visceral in their nature. And yet creative minds based in the arts are proving that the boundless imagination paired with new technological advancements often result in original and highly inspiring mind-expanding projects. Even though performance design doesn’t need to use modern technology and is often the most inspiring when it uses simple human interaction, we need to explore and experiment with wide range of possibilities new technologies have to offer. PQ Artistic Director Marketa Fantova established 36Q˚ with those thoughts in mind and with a focus on the young, emerging generation of creatives.
An experimental, interactive environment that fills the entire space of the Industrial Palace Sports Arena will welcome visitors on 8 June and remain open until the end of PQ 2019. The project, based on intensive team work that brings together experienced artists with emerging designers to collaboratively create, will be led by renowned French visual new media artist Romain Tardy. The curatorial team seeks to experiment with the shifting boundaries between the “non-material” or “virtual” and the “real” world, to explore the capacity of performance design to enlist technology in cultural production.
“As a visual artist working mostly on site-specific projects — often on a large scale, involving architecture — light has become my medium of choice. Whether it comes from a moving head or through the lens of a video projector, I realised light could create a dialogue between the tangible and the immaterial, between the permanent and the ephemeral, between past and present, or even between humans and other forms of life. Light has this capacity to reveal what is hidden, to modify our perception of reality, to create new worlds: light seems to be made of time and space. From another angle, if light is one of the conditions for life to exist on our planet, it’s also our main connection to the world through vision, and before any other sense: light is a universal connector. For Blue Hour, I tried to reverse the approach of applying light to some existing object or support: what if, for once, light could be used as a construction material? This immersive environment is conceived as an experimental playground for light: all the elements which compose the installation are actively used for lighting purposes: as a source or as a receiver. The audience is invited to become immersed in this multi-layered global light and sound installation— which works almost like a living organism, with its many different cycles and sub-cycles. Blue Hour is a show with no stage, where the visitors are also the actors: by exploring this environment, they contribute to one of those many cycles: the beauty of an ephemeral passage through light beams, changing the space just for a few seconds, following a path which couldn’t be predicted.”, Romain Tardy.
Project structure
The Blue Hour team will bring various areas of design into a dialogue through a tight collaboration. The creative team will consist of 6 working groups covering areas of Lighting Design, Video and Projection Design, Sound Design, Tactile Environment, Creative Coding, Virtual and Augmented Reality. Each creative working group will be led by an experienced designer and participants selected through an open call. The overall team will be selected based on diversity of skills, talents and interests. This project is an opportunity for students, young designers and experienced professionals to participate in artistic process involving work with high end equipment where the new knowledge isn’t facilitated through a top down teaching or master class methodology, but where learning happens through collaboration, problem solving and daily exchange of ideas while sharing a common artistic vision.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Led by Pavla Beranova and Fereshteh Rostampour (associate workshop leader)
Participants
Mejah Balams (USA)
Tereza Bartůňková (Czech Republic)
Zuzana Bottová (Czech Republic)
Ana Quintas (Brazil)
Kelly Rudolph (USA)
Paula Castillo Tocornal (Chile, lives in New York)
SOUND DESIGN
Led by Robert Kaplowitz
Participants
Shlomo Benami (Netherlands)
Rebekka Sofie Bohse Meyer (Denmark)
Bobby McElver (USA)
Ondřej Mikula (Czech Republic)
Fiona Patten (Netherlands/Ireland)
VIDEO / PROJECTION MAPPING / CONTENT / 3D DESIGN
Led by Romain Tardy
Participants
Erik Bartoš (Slovakia)
John Daoud (Lebanon)
Lukáš Dřevjaný (Czech Republic)
Kaiwen Fa (United States)
Cynthia-ël Hasbani (Lebanon)
Judy Suh (USA/South Korea)
TACTILE ENVIRONMENT
Led by Tereza Stehlikova
Participants
Fernanda Alpino (Brazil)
Mona Camille (German-Seychelloise, lives in UK)
Nitish Jain (India/Czech Republic)
Kain Leo (UK)
Florence Mein (UK)
Amy Neilson Smith (England)
Babi Targino (Brazil)
Rachel Testard (France)
Billur Turan (Turkey/UK)
Katja Vaghi (Germany)
Kerryn Wise (UK)
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION WORKGROUP
Led by Shannon Harvey
Participants
Lewis Bailey (UK)
Kate Barker (UK)
Kerry Butcher (UK)
Klean Dalton (UK)
Aled Evans (UK)
Josef Kortan (Czech Republic)
Harrison Mead (UK)
Samuel Preston (UK)
Alex Silvester (UK)
Karim Tarakji (Czech Republic)
James Whitaker (UK)
AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY
Led by Paul Cegys & Joris Weijdom
Other VR projects presented
Tanja Bastamow, THE STATE OF DARKNESS (Finland)
Michael Bruner, UPWELL (USA)
Neill O’Dwyer, VIRTUAL PLAY (Ireland)
Pascal Silondi, ORGA[NI]SM (Czech Republic)
EXPERIMENTAL SOUND
Led by John Richards
Participants
Luise Ehrenwerth (Germany)
Emma Hildebrandt (USA)
Lori Kharpoutlian (Lebanon)
Polina Khatsenka (Belarus)
Jan Krombholz (Belarus)
Johana Ožvold (Czech Republic)
Martin Ožvold (Slovakia)
Ally Poole (UK)
Moussa Sissoko (Mali)
Danil Tcytkin (Czech Republic)
Oliver Torr (Czech Republic)
Clémence Walle (France)
Travis Wright (USA)
in cooperation with
RITCS I Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound
Students Lara Van Bellingen, Merel De Coen, Sarah Feyen, Pieter Kint, Allard Klijnstra, Bert Laurijssens,
Anthony Leliaert, Thomas Maes, Lionel De Nil, Casper Van Overschee, Sinan Poffyn, Tom Reynaerts, Guust Sambaer, Dorian Stevens,
Luna Vancraeyenest, and Sibbe Velghe.
Teachers Philippe Digneffe, Chris Van Goethem,
Saskia Louwaard, Frits Maris, Thomas Stevens, and Vicky Vermoezen.
Royal Welsch College of Music and Drama
and
Backstage Academy
Recognizing the importance of sustaining a platform for discussion and exchange between emerging artists, theatres, and manufacturers as well as the connection with the professional network of artists through the OISTAT Lighting and Sound Sub-commissions, PQ is excited to welcome Light Spot and Sounds Spot as a major strand of programming under the umbrella of 36Q°.
LIGHT SPOT
Led by Ian Garrett
Originally established by Henk Van Der Geest and the OISTAT Lighting working group in collaboration with the Institute of Lighting Design in Prague, Light Spot provides a platform for lighting designers and technicians to meet, exchange ideas, and share in depth conversation over shared meals. 4 days of programming will include presentations, small experimental workshops, discussions, and technology demonstrations led by Ian Garreth.
SOUND SPOT
Led by Joe Pino
Led by Joe Pino and the Sound Sub-commission of OISTAT, Sound Spot provides a platform for presentations, discussions, and informal talks, as well as space for the ever popular Sound Kitchen, covering anything that is or relates to sound and composition for theatre and live performance.
Daily schedule to download.
WORKSHOPS, MASTERCLASSES, FESTIVAL
Curated by Patrick Du Wors
PQ Studio: Festival co-curated by Michal Lázňovský
Co-Curators for PQ Studio: Festival and Curators for PQ Studio: Chill: Sára Pospíšilová, Martina Diblíková , Adam Bureš, Veronika Schneiderová, Kristýna Sýbová, Alice Kofláková, Tomáš Sosna, Jana Takáčová, Prokop Novák, Patricie Belecová, Jan Honeiser, Vojtěch Rydlo
PQ Studio is possible through a long-standing, strong partnership with The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts Prague (DAMU).
Built on the legacy of Scenofest (2003-11) and SpaceLab (2015), PQ Studio explores this process and its resulting products through four curated sections to promote the work and development of emerging artists, professional designers, and arts-educators. PQ Studio: Workshops and Masterclasses is a program of multi-day intensive workshops and short-form masterclasses. PQ Studio: Festival presents over 50 interdisciplinary works performed in the heart of Prague. PQ Studio: Common Design Project creates discussion through an exhibition of student performance designs and organized critiques around Alfred Jarry’s play, Ubu Roi. And the after-hours program, PQ Studio: Chill, offers unique events in a social atmosphere.
More information about these parts of PQ Studio HERE.
The Common Design Project was originally conceived by Pamela Howard and had a major presence at the 2003 (A Lear for Our Time) and 2007 (The Birds) editions of PQ. The project returns with the international community of design for performance courses invited to set a selected text as a studio design project (conceived for any type of theatre, whether traditional proscenium, small and immersive spaces, found space projects, etc…) that encourages students and emerging designers to explore Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry through their own lens by considering approaches meaningful to a contemporary audience. 15 design courses have been selected and invited to bring their work to Prague for a joint display and to have their concepts critiqued by leading practitioners Tom Piper (UK), Eloize Kazan (Mexico/Croatia), Freshteh Rostanour (USA/Iran) & Samuel Wang (Taiwan). The exhibition will be open to the public for viewing during the afternoons 13 – 15 June and throughout the day on 16 June.
Workshops and Masterclasses will give an opportunity for emerging designers, young artists, and those interested in expanding their craft to learn from the international gathering of industry leading practitioners attending PQ 2019. These include explorations across all design disciplines (including set/space, sound, lighting, costume, projection, experience) as well as intensives in technical skills, stage management, and arts administration.
PQ Studio: Results Driven Workshops
The first 5 days of the series will consist of multi-day, results oriented intensives in which participants work with established artists to produce an experience to be shared with the wider PQ audience at the Industrial Palace. The results will be installed during the day on 12 June in view of the public and then presented in the evening as the Emergence: Festival. These experiences, whether performative or an installation, will showcase the imagination of young artists and explore the breadth of possibilities presented by design for performance.
These workshops include:
Spatial Dramaturgies. Interdisciplinary Macbeth
Workshop Leaders: Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Aleksandar Dundjerovic
Transcending Boundaries and Amplifying Identity with Giant Puppets
Workshop Leaders: Ana Diaz Barriga, Jess Kaufman
The Quest – Performing with the Ghost
Workshop Leaders: Ephemera Collective, Jorge Palinhos, Attila Antal, Eric V. dela Cruz
The Hidden Lives of Space: Site-Based Performance Ecology
Workshop Leaders: Ian Garrett, Tanja Beer, Paul Cegys , Justine Garrett, Andy Houston
Scaling-Up! Transfer Your Production to a Larger and/or Different Type of Theatre
Workshop Leader: Allan Stichbury
Material Interactions: A Journey in Movement
Workshop Leaders: Wearing Space Collective led by Donatella Barbieri with Mary Kate Connolly, Giulia Pecorari, Pinar Gercek
Transforming Space with Illuminated Sculpture
Workshop Leaders: Peter Balkwill, Nan Balkwill, Marie-Êve Cormier, Ian McFarlane, Randi Edmundson, Dave Lane
Form Follows Fold
Workshop Leader: Tsai-Chun Huang
Expansive Listening: An Eco-Materialist Approach to Devising Spatial Designs
Workshop Leaders: Tanja Beer, Jennifer Tran
Nomadic Bodies of Light in Public Space
Workshop Leaders: Antony (Ant) Nevin, Josh Lewis, Franziska Steinkohl
Femininity/Backstage/Design
Workshop Leader: Agata Skwarczynska, Juli Balazs, Uta Gruber-Ballehr, Ana Lopez Cobos
Devising the Collaborative Imagination
Workshop Leaders: Eric Rose, Anton deGrootParticipants of Results Driven
The list of all Result Driven Workshops is available HERE.
Workshops were already selected through Open Calls.
PQ Studio: Results Driven Workshops is part of EMERGENCE. From shared experience to new creativity. Living Heritage/Reframing Memory.
PQ Studio: Exploratory Workshops
The final 4 days of PQ Studio will follow a traditional form and consist of shorter masterclasses that explore more narrowly defined aspects of performance design through discussions, lectures, and active participation.
Participation in PQ Studio: Exploratory Workshops is by first-come, first-served and all of the workshops are now sold out! However, 2 “rush” tickets will be offered each morning for all exploratory workshops taking place on that day. Those wishing to have an opportunity to join the workshop should join the line at DAMU in the morning and we will being selling the remaining places at 09:50. At this time any empty space created by “no-show” participants will also be filled.
The list of Exploratory Workshops:
