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The Model as Performance
Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture
The Model as Performance
Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture
Description
The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition.
Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality, that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment.
The Model as Performance was shortlisted for the best Performance Design & Scenography Publication Award at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) 2019.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. The Model as Idea and Object in Theatre and Architecture
Chapter II. Staging Politics and Knowledge: From the Ideal Stage to the Model Room and the Mechanical Theatre
Chapter III. Staging the Future: The Model as a Performance of Inhabitation
Chapter IV. Staging Site: The Full Scale Model
Chapter V. Staging the White Cube: The Model as a Performance of Space
Chapter VI. Summary and Outlook
References
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 16 Nov 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 200 |
| ISBN | 9781474271400 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Series | Performance and Design |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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