McKinney, J orcid.org/0000-0001-6719-1970 (2019) Scenographic materiality: Agency and Intra-Action in stage designs by Katrin Brack. In: Wiens, BE, (ed.) Contemporary Scenography: Practices and Aesthetics in German Theatre, Arts and Design. Performance and Design, Contemporary German . Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , pp. 57-73. ISBN 9781350064478
Abstract
Katrin Brack’s atmospherically charged designs are fluid, responsive constructions that foreground the agentic role of materials such as confetti, fog, balloons, snow, tinsel and foam in theatre performance and theatre reception. In doing so, they challenge traditional views of theatre scholarship that assume human actants are the sole agents. In this chapter I examine the ways in which materials can be seen as co-creative and co-operative components of theatre by drawing on theories of new materialism. In particular, I consider; the agency that scenographic materials might have independently from designers or performers, the reciprocal relationship between materials and bodies of different kinds in scenography and the ways that material is discursive and can define what is meaningful without necessarily defaulting to language. The chapter uses examples of Brack’s designs to develop the idea of scenographic materiality and to reflect on creative agency in the process of scenography.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in Contemporary Scenography Practices and Aesthetics in German Theatre, Arts and Design. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | scenography; new materialism; Katrin Brack; intra-action; agency |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2019 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2019 01:40 |
Published Version: | https://www.bloomsbury.com/9781350064478 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Series Name: | Performance and Design |
Identification Number: | 10.5040/9781350064508.0011 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143921 |