What's New > PQ Symposium: ‘Technologies’ | October 16–18
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Technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design.
October 16–18, 2024
In-person:
Vzlet Cultural Centre
Holandská 1, Prague 10 (map)
Or attend online.
- The symposium will be held and live-streamed in English.
- Recordings of discussions and presentations will be available with English and Czech subtitles and possibly in another language as well.
- Vzlet Cultural Centre’s main spaces have barrier-free access.
- If you require any support to fully participate in the event, please contact call@pq.cz.
Whether old or new, high or low, digital or analogue, technologies, or different tools, instruments, devices, equipment, machines, and machinery, are potential and potent resources in the scenographic process. The recent technological developments that require more specialized knowledge and expertise have brought on the need and the opportunity for scenographers and designers to collaborate with scientists, engineers, and industry partners. While pushing the boundaries of what is possible in performance, employing these most advanced technologies is conditioned by access, stemming from material, institutional, and political conditions in which we produce art. Moreover, our ideas of technologies are often reduced to Western notions of progress and innovation.
More than 80 speakers from 30 countries across six continents – performance designers, scenographers, makers, artists, and researchers who work with and on technologies – will be exploring the multi-dimensional dynamic of technologies in theatre, performance, and exhibition design.