Performance design as mnemonic device for critical engagement with the spatial politics of urban change: the<i>ARCADE</i>project

Janssen, Shauna

doi:10.1080/23322551.2019.1690234

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“…For me site-specific practices, as I have argued elsewhere, provide rich terrain for the artist researcher and pedagogue of urban change to critically engage with the spatial politics and histories of place, unexpected agents, and the contingencies that come with this work. 6 From an art historical perspective Miwon Kwon's genealogy of site-specificity is helpful here in understanding how such art practices and their terms have evolved and circulated since the 1960s and 1970s. "The operative definition of the site," Kwon writes, "has been transformed from a physical locationgrounded, fixed, actualto a discursive vector -ungrounded, fluid, virtual."…”

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Theatre Island and Urban Scenographies of Learning: A Performative Paradigm for Transversal Pedagogy

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2021

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In this article I foreground the potential that “urban scenography” has to shape both pedagogical and interdisciplinary learning experiences. In May 2019, I devised an international field school and travelled to Copenhagen, Denmark, with twelve students from Concordia University’s departments of theatre, studio, design, geography and urban planning. We took up residency at Teaterøen (Theatre Island), located on Refshaleøen, a deindustrialized manmade island located across the harbour from Copenhagen’s city centre. On Teaterøen scenography is everywhere. Embedded in this rapidly gentrifying, yet unfinished and at times vagrant islandscape, in this field school we approached scenography as a perspective on, or way of thinking about its potential and possibilities for researching wider performance-making, spatial and urban practices; questioning the when and where of scenography. One of the pedagogical goals of the urban scenographies themed field school was to engage students with the potential that scenographics opens up for other kinds of interdisciplinary, collaborative, creative practices, and performance dramaturgies.

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