Series: Performance and Design

What is the impact of virtual models and realms in contemporary theatre, art and architecture? This volume explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making using a range of case studies drawn from global contemporary theatre, art and architecture practice. It draws upon a rich array of contemporary examples, including the Japanese artist...

Contemporary Performance Lighting is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting, featuring contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers, and artists. This book showcases recent examples of work, with case studies of lighting practices in Britain, Europe, the US, and China, combined with theoretical and analytical approaches to practice. It will enrich your understanding of the role and...

Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 Digital Scenography uses digital media theory to explore contemporary understandings of expanded scenography as spatial practice. It surveys and analyses a selection of groundbreaking, experimental digital media performances that comprise a genealogy spanning the last 30 years, in order to show how the arrival of digital technologies...

Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize Scenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material, and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites of imaginative exchange and transformative...