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Theatres of Architectural Imagination (Montreal, 27-28 May 21)
Online / Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), May 27–29, 2021 Deadline: Dec 18, 2020
Lisa Landrum
In theatre, as in architecture, meaning is construed through situated, shared and embodied experi- ence. Both theatre and architecture gather community in shared settings to experience events simultaneously familiar and strange, prosaic and profound, anticipated and unexpected, mantic and mnemonic. These shared encounters – involving complicity, conflict and change – open renewed understandings of the human condition and humanity’s interdependence with the world.
The present pandemic poses serious challenges for both public theatre and public architecture.
Yet, these ancient art forms have endured past pandemics and the human desire for in-person col- lective transformative experience will resume – potentially with renewed vigour.
This symposium seizes the present opportunity to renew theatrical and architectural modes of imagination by exploring the mnemonic, performative and participatory aspects of architecture.
We specifically invite paper proposals and Entr’actes exploring theatres of architectural imagina- tion through the creative lens of three themes: Memory, World, Action.
Abstracts for paper proposals due December 18, 2020.
Entr’Acte proposals (2-min. videos) due February 15, 2021.
The blended online/in-person symposium will take place May 27 to 29, 2021.
Co-chaired by Lisa Landrum, University of Manitoba and Sam Ridgway, University of Adelaide, in collaboration with Louise Pelletier, UQÀM, and Alberto Pérez-Gómez, McGill University
Full details and downloadable Call for Papers & Entr’Actes available here: https://www.marcofras- caridreamhouse.com/future-events
Reference:
CFP: Theatres of Architectural Imagination (Montreal, 27-28 May 21). In: ArtHist.net, Dec 2, 2020 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/24045>.
