Format:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350104471
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9781350104457
Series Statement:
Performance and Design
Content:
"In this book practitioner and scholar Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of therapeutic scenography as an applied art form. Through an account of her own practice combined with case studies drawing on artworks from other international practitioners - including those from Early Romanticism and the Land Art movement of the 1960s, the autobiographical work of artists such as Elena Brotherus (Finland), Tabitha Moses (UK) and Marina Abramovic's autobiographical walking-work The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk (1988, China) - this is the first book on the emerging area of site-specific, socially engaged and therapeutic scenography. The book analyses how Wilson's inter-disciplinary, site-specific walking-performances are created in rural landscapes and seek to emplace, re-image and transform a participant's relationship to and experience of 'missing', unmarked or challenging life-events for which traditional rites of passage or ceremonies do not exist. The book explores the transformational -- therapeutic -- effect of Wilson's practice, which becomes an instrument for personal and social change and can be understood as a form of applied performance practice. Case studies drawn from her own practice include Fissure (2011), The Gathering (2014), Warnscale (2015), Mulliontide (2016) and Women's Walks to Remember (2018). Each is illustrated and is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects of the practice and research. Using this series of case studies, Wilson investigates how 'transformation' is achieved through an inter-disciplinarily, three-tiered methodological process and the application of the concept of the feminine sublime, which she develops into six scenographic-led principles. These principles were informed by theories and aesthetics relating to landscape, pilgrimage, Early Romanticism, and a close study of the approach of Dorothy Wordsworth and her female contemporaries to landscape."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword / by Professor Deidre Heddon (University of Glasgow, UK) -- Section 1. Drawing the scene: Applied scenography ; A contextual study -- Section 2. Sites of transformation: A 'feminine' sublime approach to the creation of site-specific walking-performance that serves as a transformational catalyst -- Section 3. Landscapes of loss: Life-event walking performance and pilgrimage -- Section 4. Site-specificity: Land art and the frame ; A view from somewhere -- Section 5. Missing life-event: Emplacing, re-imaging and transforming ; Autobiography and giving a voice to those on the edges of mainstream dialogues -- Section 6. Deep feeling for place: The community leads the way -- Therapeutic landscapes and environmental forces -- Section 7. Therapeutic scenography -- Medical, therapeutic and social prescribing -- Section 8. Looking forward -- Close affinities with scenography and social science research.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350104440
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350104471
