Thornett, Lucy and Crawley, Greer (2022) Staged: scenographic strategies in contemporary exhibition design. Theatre and Performance Design, 8 (1-2). pp. 3-6. ISSN 2332-2551
Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Thornett, Lucy and Crawley, Greer |
Description: | We are pleased to introduce this special double issue, which focuses attention on how scenography operates within exhibition contexts. Our interest in this topic has been developing for some time. In 2018, we co-convened a symposium titled Scenography in Exhibition & The Museum with Kathrine Sandys and the V&A Museum, for the UK Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Scenography Working Group. The symposium included presentations from a number of practitioners and theorists working across the disciplinary contexts of exhibition and performance design – in fact, interest in the topic was such that we shortened the length of all the presentations in order to accommodate more papers. Since then, although more scholarly work has begun to emerge in this area (Dechelle Citation2018; Mehzoud Citation2019), we believe there is still a need for a more extensive examination of the scenographic in exhibition design. This special double issue is a move towards fulfilling that need. We are delighted to feature articles by an international group of contributors. They bring a range of perspectives from the historical and cultural, art criticism, design and curatorial practices, or a combination of these. The contributors’ different perspectives interconnect to create a multi-dimensional discourse around the staging of exhibitions. Their arguments and observations elucidate how scenographic and theatrical methodologies are being used in creating what one of the contributors, Pamela Bianchi, has described as ‘the exhibition imaginary’. |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Taylor & Francis |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication |
Date: | 2 September 2022 |
Digital Object Identifier: | 10.1080/23322551.2022.2099091 |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2025 12:40 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2025 12:40 |
Item ID: | 23363 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23363 |
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