IMPULSE! -project hosts a seminar on sustainable practices in puppetry and performance design.
Time: Friday 13 December 2024 at 10:00–13:00 EET
Place: Online, Zoom
This presentation and workshop will explore ecoscenography and sustainable practice in puppetry and performance through the lens of two Australian designers, Bryony Anderson and Tanja Beer.
Australian designer/maker Bryony Anderson has developed a deep relationship with materials over nearly three decades of practice in puppetry and performance. Her approach could be described as animist frugality: using precious resources with care and caution, and respecting them for their properties. As Head of Workshop with Terrapin Puppet Theatre in lutruwita /Tasmania, Bryony led a transition to sustainable workshop practice. Through conducting emissions audits she realised that material use is the tip of the iceberg in theatre’s environmental impact, and became an advocate for rethinking the traditional ways of conceiving, producing and touring work.
Tanja Beer’s work explores the creative application of ecological thinking to performance design through the concept of Ecoscenography. Ecoscenography is a new approach to theatre production that seeks to dissolve the apparent boundaries between artists, materials, audiences, and the wider ecosystem, expanding creative responsibility and encouraging reflection on how we make work and communicate through it.
During the session, Tanja will introduce to the concept of ecoscenography (ecological design for performance), where the cycles of co-creation (pre-production), celebration (production), and circulation (post-production) are integrated into the creative processes. She will invite participants to explore the ideas and practices of ecoscenography and to generate conversations and ideas that stimulate discussions on the future of scenography in a climate-changed world. Bryony will delve into the principles of material-informed design using salvaged and low-impact materials, the challenges of scaling up a personal practice to an organisational one, and the necessity for systemic change. Together they will set an imaginative challenge to participants and take you on an investigation into material informed design and co-creation.
Attending the event
The seminar free and open for everyone interested. The focus group is artists and other performing arts professionals interested in sustainable pratices. The lectures will be recorded and later put available on IMPULSE! Project’s Youtube account where it will be visible also afterwards as a recording.
Seminar will be held on Zoom platform. Join the seminar here
Schedule:
10:00–11:30 EET Presentations
Bryony Anderson: Artistic practice 30min
Tanja Beer: “pracademic” approach on ecodesign 30min
QA & discussion 30 min
15 min break
11:45–13:00 EET Workshop: Material-informed design in puppetry
Read more about the event on IMPULSE! — New Focus on Puppetry and Visual Theatre project’s webpage.
