Shaping Our Australian Scenographic Identities: A visual essay

Scene ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-155
Author(s):  
Tessa Rixon ◽  
Jennifer Irwin ◽  
David Walters ◽  
Jeremy Neideck ◽  
M’ck McKeague ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Design History ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Stepping Stones ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Independent Site

In the form of a visual essay, this reflection charts a course through eight specific moments in Australian performance design history. Selected by guest editor Tessa Rixon, this essay features contributions from Australia’s most established designers from sound, lighting and costume through to the latest in performance design practice and research. Specially curated for this special edition on Australian scenography, each contributor reflects on a personal experience of a pivotal performance design from their own practice or their experience as an audience member. The resulting contributions present a mix of design forms and focuses, across all forms of live performance – mainstage theatre, independent site-specific performance, queer theatre, Indigenous theatre, Indigenous dance, scenography for performance beyond the stage frame, performance in response to the climate crisis and finally, a few pivotal stepping stones in our national scenographic identity – from the very personal, to the very global. These exemplars of design practice shape what we now could call Australian scenography.

scholarly journals Flexible Characterization: Herstorical Performance in Heritage Sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-368
Author(s):  
Victoria Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Identity Performance ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Spatial Exploration ◽  
The University ◽  
Heritage Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores how performance and character can be used to represent the lives of real women in spaces of heritage. It focuses on two different site-specific performances created by the author in the South Ayrshire region of Scotland: CauseWay: The Story of the Alloway Suffragettes and In Hidden Spaces: The Untold Stories of the Women of Rozelle House. These were created with a practice-as-research methodology and aim to offer new models for the use of character in site-specific performance practice. The article explores the variety of methods and techniques used, including verbatim writing, spatial exploration, and Herstorical research, in order to demonstrate the ways in which women’s narratives were represented in a theoretically informed, site-specific manner. Drawing on Phil Smith’s mythogeography, and responding to Laurajane Smith’s work on gender and heritage, the conflicting tensions of identity, performance, and authenticity are drawn together to offer flexible characterization as a new model for the creation of feminist heritage performance. Victoria Bianchi is a theatre-maker and academic in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores the relationship between space, feminism, and identity. She has written and performed work for the National Trust for Scotland, Camden People’s Theatre, and Assembly at Edinburgh, among other institutions.

Design of aquifer remediation systems: (2) Estimating site-specific performance and benefits of partial source removal

2005 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 148-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lynn Wood ◽  
Carl G. Enfield ◽  
Felipe P. Espinoza ◽  
Michael Annable ◽  
Michael C. Brooks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aquifer Remediation ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Specific Performance

PERFORMING CRISIS IN GREEK THEATRE: SCENOGRAPHIC STRATEGIES AS DRAMATURGIES OF CRISIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (46) ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
María Konomi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Specific Performance

This essay will investigate a series of performances in Greece that showcase the theme of crisis discussed through the particular frame of their expanded scenographic strategies as dramaturgies of crisis. This expanded scenography is not restricted to politics and aesthetics of scenographic representation extending well beyond traditional staging paradigms to aspects that reinstate the emergence of social realities and a fundamentally social conception of space. Indicatively, this includes strategies like introducing various charged elements from lived experi-ence and contemporary visual culture, as well as conflictual aesthetics of the crisis and visual and spatial dramaturgies of the precarious. Sce-nographic dramaturgies of crisis seem to thrive on new spatial perfor-mance forms that directly interact with social realities and real spaces (like site-specific performance), while they mobilize a renewed address to found, shared public space putting to use strategies of participation. In this context of the crisis, the widespread multimedia idioms and the proliferation of video and cinematic idioms are also notable. Perfor-mances that thematize aspects of the crisis, such as Revolt Athens (2016), and the twin site-specific performances built with a core topographical address, Tea Time Europe (2014-15) and Eat Time Europe (2016) will be an-alyzed as key case studies to exemplify and further contextualize their scenographic approaches as content and context-oriented formulations, as visual and spatial dramaturgies that provide us with an entryway into performing crisis.

scholarly journals Conjugation-Independent, Site-Specific Recombination at the oriT of the IncW Plasmid R388 Mediated by TrwC

1994 ◽  
Vol 176 (20) ◽  
pp. 6414-6414
Author(s):  
Matxalen Llosa ◽  
Silvia Bolland ◽  
Guadalupe Grandoso ◽  
Fernando de la Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Site Specific ◽  
Site Specific Recombination ◽  
Independent Site

scholarly journals Role of attP in Integrase-Mediated Integration of the Shigella Resistance Locus Pathogenicity Island of Shigella flexneri

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1028-1031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally A. Turner ◽  
Shelley N. Luck ◽  
Harry Sakellaris ◽  
Kumar Rajakumar ◽  
Ben Adler
Keyword(s):  
Shigella Flexneri ◽  
Pathogenicity Island ◽  
Resistance Locus ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Site Specific Recombination ◽  
Independent Site

ABSTRACT The Shigella resistance locus (SRL) pathogenicity island (PAI) in Shigella spp. mediates resistance to streptomycin, ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline. It can be excised from the chromosome via site-specific recombination mediated by the P4-related int gene. Here, we show that SRL PAI attP is capable of RecA-independent, site-specific, int-mediated integration into two bacterial tRNA attB sites.

Città Invisibili of Teatro Potlach

2017 ◽  
pp. 536-562
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Sansone
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
A Site ◽  
Citta Invisibili

Città Invisibili is a multidisciplinary art project made by the Italian company Teatro Potlach. Compared to the canonical theatrical performances, Città Invisibili, being in its essence a site-specific performance, interacts with the place where it grows. With the project, the Italian group builds next to the existing space of the place (physical space and memory space) other two spaces, the space of the staging and the space of the performer, using different materials, in particular cloths and video projections. Moreover Teatro Potlach conducts a historical, anthropological and social research trying to bring out the latent memory of places. All these interventions bring out from the place a city never seen before, invisible to the eyes of its inhabitants, but present and buried in the meanderings of their memory. The objective is to bring out this memory so that the inhabitants preserve and hand down it to new generations.

Walks of Experience: Site-Specific Performance Walks, Active Listening and Uncomfortable Witnessing

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILIE PINE ◽  
MAEVE CASSERLY ◽  
TOM LANE
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The City

Digital-audio performance walks can be powerful performances, responding to troubling pasts, giving voice to testimony, and creating an affective geography that satisfies a participant's desire to connect with the city rather than just walk through it. Yet digital-audio performance walks also raise questions about performance and voyeurism, and the disconnection of private headphone experience, alongside issues of agency, detachment and appropriation. This article addresses key issues associated with digital-audio performance walks, using two case studies of performance walks (from Israel and Ireland), that aim to communicate politically charged and painful histories, which are at once ‘now’ and ‘then’, ‘here’ and ‘there’. The article considers some of the risks in digital-audio performance walks: dark tourism, privatization and empathic quietism. Finally, the article assesses what creative strategies are available to creators – and audiences – to make collaborative performance walks that galvanize spectators to become active witnesses.

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