Performance Design - Softcover

Hannah, Dorita; Olav, Harslof

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8763507846 ISBN 13: 9788763507844

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book gathers together a group of international artists, architects, scenographers, performers, and theorists to establish Performance Design as a fluid and emerging field, which explores the speculative and projective acts of designing performance and performing design. The theoretical essays and realised projects offer a lively and stimulating range of performative expressions across disciplines, where design artefacts -- objects, gestures, images, occasions and environments -- are aligned to performance through notions of embodiment, action and event. Performance Design is presented as an aesthetic practice that harnesses and orchestrates the dynamic forces of the lived world, as well as the participatory role of a co-creative audience, to provide a critical tool for reflecting, confronting and realigning worldviews.

About this title

About the Author

Dorita Hannah is an architect and scenographer, Associate Professor at Massey University's College of Creative Arts in New Zealand. Olav Harsløf is Professor at Roskilde University's Department of Performance Design in Denmark. He has previously headed the Danish National Schools of Theatre and Dance, as well as the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and has rusted exhibitions at the Royal Danish Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8763507846
• ISBN 13: 9788763507844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336