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Page 1: CONCEPTOARTÍSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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Call for Applicationsfor Countriesand Regions

13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

June 18 991252 282O15 PragueCzech Republic

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Prague QuadrennialCeletnaacute 17 Prague 1 11O OOCzech Republic

Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225E-mail pqpqczwwwpqcz

Estimado SrSra

Es nuestro placer informarle que el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa con el Instituto de Artes y Teatro anuncian oficialmente la 13 Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga (13thPrague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space)

La Cuadrienal de Praga es un importante evento internacional de disentildeo esceacutenico que desde 1967

cada cuatro antildeos presenta los trabajos contemporaacuteneos maacutes interesantes en disentildeo de escenografiacutea vestuario sonido e iluminacioacuten en varios geacuteneros teatrales asiacute como arquitectura teatral y lapresentacioacuten de trabajos de profesionales y estudiantes de cinco continentes La uacuteltima edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Praga en 2011 fue visitada por 50000 personas de casi 80 paiacuteses

Seraacute para nosotros un enorme placer si Usted acepta nuestra invitacioacuten a participar en este importanteevento y presentar trabajos de disentildeo esceacutenico y artistas individuales de su paiacutes en la 13 edicioacuten dela Cuadrienal de Praga Habitualmente maacutes de 60 paiacuteses preparan sus exhibiciones en las seccionesprincipales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y preparan representaciones enlos otros proyectos de este evento uacutenico

Por favor tenga en cuenta que la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 se desarrollaraacute en nuevos espacios ndashen galeriacuteas teatros y edificios histoacutericos del centro de Praga Asimismo el Concepto de PQ lsquo15 enparticular la exhibicioacuten principal ha cambiado significativamente En el adjunto encontraraacute maacutesinformacioacuten sobre el evento asiacute como el formulario de solicitud En la paacutegina 6 encontraraacute unresumen del documento en espantildeol Por favor tenga a bien retornar el formulario de solicitud a maacutestardar el 31 de enero de 2014

Estamos ansiosos por cooperar con usted en la realizacioacuten de este evento

Sinceramente

Pavla PetrovaacuteDirectora del Instituto de Artes y TeatroDirectora de la Cuadrienal de Praga

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Call for Applicationsfor Countriesand Regions

PQ is organized and funded by the Ministry of Cultureof the Czech Republic and realized by Arts and TheatreInstitute

With the Supportof the Culture Programmeof the European Union

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In memoriamJarmila Gabrielovaacute (19289912522O13)and Steve Brown (196O9912522O13)

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Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Contents

Spanish Summary rarr PAGE 6Prague Quadrennial ndash General Information rarr PAGE 10How to Take Part rarr PAGE 11Artistic Concept of the Prague Quadrennial 2O15 rarr PAGE 12Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction rarr PAGE 13Important Information rarr PAGE 14Where Does PQ lsquo15 Take Place rarr PAGE 15Section of Countries and Regions rarr PAGE 16Music rarr PAGE 17Weather rarr PAGE 18Politics rarr PAGE 19Student Section rarr PAGE 21Space Exhibition rarr PAGE 22Makers Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Objects Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Tribes Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Basic Timeline rarr PAGE 25Events 2O13-2O16 rarr PAGE 26

Statute of PQ lsquo15 rarr PAGES 27 991251 30Artistic amp Organizational Team rarr PAGES 31 991251 33Application Form rarr PAGES 34 991251 35

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La Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga es el mayor evento

internacional que explora el campo de la escenografiacutea en toda su extensioacuten ndash desde lasartes esceacutenicas pasando por el vestuario el disentildeo de iluminacioacuten y sonido hasta losnuevos enfoques para la escenografiacutea tales como site specic escenografiacutea aplicadarepresentaciones callejeras vestuario como representacioacuten y muchos otros

Cada cuatro antildeos desde 1967 la Cuadrienal de Praga explora y presenta las uacuteltimastendencias de la escenografiacutea y el trabajo arquitectoacutenico con el espacio El nuacutecleo deeste evento internacional se compone de una exhibicioacuten de maacutes de 60 paiacuteses dividida en

varias secciones competitivas El la uacuteltima deacutecada los eventos en vivo se convirtieron enuna parte importante de PQ ndash miles de profesionales espectadores y estudiantes puedenreunirse en los debates talleres conferencias y presentaciones en vivo En el pasado PQpresentoacute los trabajos de renombrados artistas como Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor JenniferTipton Heiner Goebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpaacuted

Schilling Boris Kudlička Kristin Delholm y muchos maacutes

Durante la uacuteltima deacutecada la Cuadrienal de Praga paso de ser un evento de exhibicionesindividuales a una organizacioacuten que proporciona una plataforma internacional paraproyectos continuos enfocados en la educacioacuten las exhibiciones el intercambio profesional

y de formacioacuten publicaciones proyectos artiacutesticos propios o simposios internacionalesen el aacuterea de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea Asimismo la organizacioacuten opera un boletiacutenelectroacutenico internacional sobre eventos relacionados con la escenografiacutea una biblioteca detextos especializados y una base de datos mundial de escuelas de escenografiacutea

La uacuteltima edicioacuten de la Cuadrienal de Praga en 2011 se enfocoacute en la escenografiacutea maacutesallaacute del campo teatral expandieacutendose hacia otras disciplinas Muchos de los liacutederes es

sus respectivas disciplinas tanto nacionales como extranjeros presentaron al puacuteblico lasinnitas facetas de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea que se extiende a traveacutes de muchasdisciplinas y geacuteneros en los cuales el escenoacutegrafo es a menudo el artista clave ndash el iniciador

y autor

Durante PQ 11 en los 12000 metros cuadrados del Palacio de Exposiciones sepresentaron y exhibieron maacutes de 60 paiacuteses y regiones Otros 500 eventos en vivo ndashconferencias presentaciones y talleres ndash se llevaron a cabo por toda Praga Pražskaacutekřižovatka proporcionoacute el espacio para la seccioacuten que exploroacute el creciente campo de laarquitectura teatral La exhibicioacuten Interseccioacuten Intimidad y espectaacuteculo se enfocoacuteen el espacio escenograacuteco que permite la conexioacuten directa del puacuteblico con el arte Porotro lado Scenofest presentoacute una amplia gama de proyectos para maacutes de 1500 artistas yestudiantes

Resumen del documento991252 Llamado a participacioacutenpara paiacuteses y regiones

Cuadrienal de Praga991252 Informacioacuten general

13 edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Disentildeoy Espacio Esceacutenico dePraga 2015

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Music Briefby PQ CommissionerJiřiacute Heřman

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Politics Briefby PQ CommissionerAby Cohen

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Prague QuadrennialCeletnaacute 17 Prague 1 11O OOCzech Republic

Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225E-mail pqpqczwwwpqcz

Estimado SrSra

Es nuestro placer informarle que el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa con el Instituto de Artes y Teatro anuncian oficialmente la 13 Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga (13thPrague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space)

La Cuadrienal de Praga es un importante evento internacional de disentildeo esceacutenico que desde 1967

cada cuatro antildeos presenta los trabajos contemporaacuteneos maacutes interesantes en disentildeo de escenografiacutea vestuario sonido e iluminacioacuten en varios geacuteneros teatrales asiacute como arquitectura teatral y lapresentacioacuten de trabajos de profesionales y estudiantes de cinco continentes La uacuteltima edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Praga en 2011 fue visitada por 50000 personas de casi 80 paiacuteses

Seraacute para nosotros un enorme placer si Usted acepta nuestra invitacioacuten a participar en este importanteevento y presentar trabajos de disentildeo esceacutenico y artistas individuales de su paiacutes en la 13 edicioacuten dela Cuadrienal de Praga Habitualmente maacutes de 60 paiacuteses preparan sus exhibiciones en las seccionesprincipales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y preparan representaciones enlos otros proyectos de este evento uacutenico

Por favor tenga en cuenta que la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 se desarrollaraacute en nuevos espacios ndashen galeriacuteas teatros y edificios histoacutericos del centro de Praga Asimismo el Concepto de PQ lsquo15 enparticular la exhibicioacuten principal ha cambiado significativamente En el adjunto encontraraacute maacutesinformacioacuten sobre el evento asiacute como el formulario de solicitud En la paacutegina 6 encontraraacute unresumen del documento en espantildeol Por favor tenga a bien retornar el formulario de solicitud a maacutestardar el 31 de enero de 2014

Estamos ansiosos por cooperar con usted en la realizacioacuten de este evento

Sinceramente

Pavla PetrovaacuteDirectora del Instituto de Artes y TeatroDirectora de la Cuadrienal de Praga

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Call for Applicationsfor Countriesand Regions

PQ is organized and funded by the Ministry of Cultureof the Czech Republic and realized by Arts and TheatreInstitute

With the Supportof the Culture Programmeof the European Union

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In memoriamJarmila Gabrielovaacute (19289912522O13)and Steve Brown (196O9912522O13)

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Contents

Spanish Summary rarr PAGE 6Prague Quadrennial ndash General Information rarr PAGE 10How to Take Part rarr PAGE 11Artistic Concept of the Prague Quadrennial 2O15 rarr PAGE 12Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction rarr PAGE 13Important Information rarr PAGE 14Where Does PQ lsquo15 Take Place rarr PAGE 15Section of Countries and Regions rarr PAGE 16Music rarr PAGE 17Weather rarr PAGE 18Politics rarr PAGE 19Student Section rarr PAGE 21Space Exhibition rarr PAGE 22Makers Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Objects Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Tribes Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Basic Timeline rarr PAGE 25Events 2O13-2O16 rarr PAGE 26

Statute of PQ lsquo15 rarr PAGES 27 991251 30Artistic amp Organizational Team rarr PAGES 31 991251 33Application Form rarr PAGES 34 991251 35

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La Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga es el mayor evento

internacional que explora el campo de la escenografiacutea en toda su extensioacuten ndash desde lasartes esceacutenicas pasando por el vestuario el disentildeo de iluminacioacuten y sonido hasta losnuevos enfoques para la escenografiacutea tales como site specic escenografiacutea aplicadarepresentaciones callejeras vestuario como representacioacuten y muchos otros

Cada cuatro antildeos desde 1967 la Cuadrienal de Praga explora y presenta las uacuteltimastendencias de la escenografiacutea y el trabajo arquitectoacutenico con el espacio El nuacutecleo deeste evento internacional se compone de una exhibicioacuten de maacutes de 60 paiacuteses dividida en

varias secciones competitivas El la uacuteltima deacutecada los eventos en vivo se convirtieron enuna parte importante de PQ ndash miles de profesionales espectadores y estudiantes puedenreunirse en los debates talleres conferencias y presentaciones en vivo En el pasado PQpresentoacute los trabajos de renombrados artistas como Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor JenniferTipton Heiner Goebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpaacuted

Schilling Boris Kudlička Kristin Delholm y muchos maacutes

Durante la uacuteltima deacutecada la Cuadrienal de Praga paso de ser un evento de exhibicionesindividuales a una organizacioacuten que proporciona una plataforma internacional paraproyectos continuos enfocados en la educacioacuten las exhibiciones el intercambio profesional

y de formacioacuten publicaciones proyectos artiacutesticos propios o simposios internacionalesen el aacuterea de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea Asimismo la organizacioacuten opera un boletiacutenelectroacutenico internacional sobre eventos relacionados con la escenografiacutea una biblioteca detextos especializados y una base de datos mundial de escuelas de escenografiacutea

La uacuteltima edicioacuten de la Cuadrienal de Praga en 2011 se enfocoacute en la escenografiacutea maacutesallaacute del campo teatral expandieacutendose hacia otras disciplinas Muchos de los liacutederes es

sus respectivas disciplinas tanto nacionales como extranjeros presentaron al puacuteblico lasinnitas facetas de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea que se extiende a traveacutes de muchasdisciplinas y geacuteneros en los cuales el escenoacutegrafo es a menudo el artista clave ndash el iniciador

y autor

Durante PQ 11 en los 12000 metros cuadrados del Palacio de Exposiciones sepresentaron y exhibieron maacutes de 60 paiacuteses y regiones Otros 500 eventos en vivo ndashconferencias presentaciones y talleres ndash se llevaron a cabo por toda Praga Pražskaacutekřižovatka proporcionoacute el espacio para la seccioacuten que exploroacute el creciente campo de laarquitectura teatral La exhibicioacuten Interseccioacuten Intimidad y espectaacuteculo se enfocoacuteen el espacio escenograacuteco que permite la conexioacuten directa del puacuteblico con el arte Porotro lado Scenofest presentoacute una amplia gama de proyectos para maacutes de 1500 artistas yestudiantes

Resumen del documento991252 Llamado a participacioacutenpara paiacuteses y regiones

Cuadrienal de Praga991252 Informacioacuten general

13 edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Disentildeoy Espacio Esceacutenico dePraga 2015

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Music Briefby PQ CommissionerJiřiacute Heřman

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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Call for Applicationsfor Countriesand Regions

PQ is organized and funded by the Ministry of Cultureof the Czech Republic and realized by Arts and TheatreInstitute

With the Supportof the Culture Programmeof the European Union

13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In memoriamJarmila Gabrielovaacute (19289912522O13)and Steve Brown (196O9912522O13)

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Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Contents

Spanish Summary rarr PAGE 6Prague Quadrennial ndash General Information rarr PAGE 10How to Take Part rarr PAGE 11Artistic Concept of the Prague Quadrennial 2O15 rarr PAGE 12Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction rarr PAGE 13Important Information rarr PAGE 14Where Does PQ lsquo15 Take Place rarr PAGE 15Section of Countries and Regions rarr PAGE 16Music rarr PAGE 17Weather rarr PAGE 18Politics rarr PAGE 19Student Section rarr PAGE 21Space Exhibition rarr PAGE 22Makers Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Objects Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Tribes Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Basic Timeline rarr PAGE 25Events 2O13-2O16 rarr PAGE 26

Statute of PQ lsquo15 rarr PAGES 27 991251 30Artistic amp Organizational Team rarr PAGES 31 991251 33Application Form rarr PAGES 34 991251 35

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La Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga es el mayor evento

internacional que explora el campo de la escenografiacutea en toda su extensioacuten ndash desde lasartes esceacutenicas pasando por el vestuario el disentildeo de iluminacioacuten y sonido hasta losnuevos enfoques para la escenografiacutea tales como site specic escenografiacutea aplicadarepresentaciones callejeras vestuario como representacioacuten y muchos otros

Cada cuatro antildeos desde 1967 la Cuadrienal de Praga explora y presenta las uacuteltimastendencias de la escenografiacutea y el trabajo arquitectoacutenico con el espacio El nuacutecleo deeste evento internacional se compone de una exhibicioacuten de maacutes de 60 paiacuteses dividida en

varias secciones competitivas El la uacuteltima deacutecada los eventos en vivo se convirtieron enuna parte importante de PQ ndash miles de profesionales espectadores y estudiantes puedenreunirse en los debates talleres conferencias y presentaciones en vivo En el pasado PQpresentoacute los trabajos de renombrados artistas como Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor JenniferTipton Heiner Goebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpaacuted

Schilling Boris Kudlička Kristin Delholm y muchos maacutes

Durante la uacuteltima deacutecada la Cuadrienal de Praga paso de ser un evento de exhibicionesindividuales a una organizacioacuten que proporciona una plataforma internacional paraproyectos continuos enfocados en la educacioacuten las exhibiciones el intercambio profesional

y de formacioacuten publicaciones proyectos artiacutesticos propios o simposios internacionalesen el aacuterea de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea Asimismo la organizacioacuten opera un boletiacutenelectroacutenico internacional sobre eventos relacionados con la escenografiacutea una biblioteca detextos especializados y una base de datos mundial de escuelas de escenografiacutea

La uacuteltima edicioacuten de la Cuadrienal de Praga en 2011 se enfocoacute en la escenografiacutea maacutesallaacute del campo teatral expandieacutendose hacia otras disciplinas Muchos de los liacutederes es

sus respectivas disciplinas tanto nacionales como extranjeros presentaron al puacuteblico lasinnitas facetas de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea que se extiende a traveacutes de muchasdisciplinas y geacuteneros en los cuales el escenoacutegrafo es a menudo el artista clave ndash el iniciador

y autor

Durante PQ 11 en los 12000 metros cuadrados del Palacio de Exposiciones sepresentaron y exhibieron maacutes de 60 paiacuteses y regiones Otros 500 eventos en vivo ndashconferencias presentaciones y talleres ndash se llevaron a cabo por toda Praga Pražskaacutekřižovatka proporcionoacute el espacio para la seccioacuten que exploroacute el creciente campo de laarquitectura teatral La exhibicioacuten Interseccioacuten Intimidad y espectaacuteculo se enfocoacuteen el espacio escenograacuteco que permite la conexioacuten directa del puacuteblico con el arte Porotro lado Scenofest presentoacute una amplia gama de proyectos para maacutes de 1500 artistas yestudiantes

Resumen del documento991252 Llamado a participacioacutenpara paiacuteses y regiones

Cuadrienal de Praga991252 Informacioacuten general

13 edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Disentildeoy Espacio Esceacutenico dePraga 2015

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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In memoriamJarmila Gabrielovaacute (19289912522O13)and Steve Brown (196O9912522O13)

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Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Contents

Spanish Summary rarr PAGE 6Prague Quadrennial ndash General Information rarr PAGE 10How to Take Part rarr PAGE 11Artistic Concept of the Prague Quadrennial 2O15 rarr PAGE 12Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction rarr PAGE 13Important Information rarr PAGE 14Where Does PQ lsquo15 Take Place rarr PAGE 15Section of Countries and Regions rarr PAGE 16Music rarr PAGE 17Weather rarr PAGE 18Politics rarr PAGE 19Student Section rarr PAGE 21Space Exhibition rarr PAGE 22Makers Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Objects Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Tribes Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Basic Timeline rarr PAGE 25Events 2O13-2O16 rarr PAGE 26

Statute of PQ lsquo15 rarr PAGES 27 991251 30Artistic amp Organizational Team rarr PAGES 31 991251 33Application Form rarr PAGES 34 991251 35

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La Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga es el mayor evento

internacional que explora el campo de la escenografiacutea en toda su extensioacuten ndash desde lasartes esceacutenicas pasando por el vestuario el disentildeo de iluminacioacuten y sonido hasta losnuevos enfoques para la escenografiacutea tales como site specic escenografiacutea aplicadarepresentaciones callejeras vestuario como representacioacuten y muchos otros

Cada cuatro antildeos desde 1967 la Cuadrienal de Praga explora y presenta las uacuteltimastendencias de la escenografiacutea y el trabajo arquitectoacutenico con el espacio El nuacutecleo deeste evento internacional se compone de una exhibicioacuten de maacutes de 60 paiacuteses dividida en

varias secciones competitivas El la uacuteltima deacutecada los eventos en vivo se convirtieron enuna parte importante de PQ ndash miles de profesionales espectadores y estudiantes puedenreunirse en los debates talleres conferencias y presentaciones en vivo En el pasado PQpresentoacute los trabajos de renombrados artistas como Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor JenniferTipton Heiner Goebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpaacuted

Schilling Boris Kudlička Kristin Delholm y muchos maacutes

Durante la uacuteltima deacutecada la Cuadrienal de Praga paso de ser un evento de exhibicionesindividuales a una organizacioacuten que proporciona una plataforma internacional paraproyectos continuos enfocados en la educacioacuten las exhibiciones el intercambio profesional

y de formacioacuten publicaciones proyectos artiacutesticos propios o simposios internacionalesen el aacuterea de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea Asimismo la organizacioacuten opera un boletiacutenelectroacutenico internacional sobre eventos relacionados con la escenografiacutea una biblioteca detextos especializados y una base de datos mundial de escuelas de escenografiacutea

La uacuteltima edicioacuten de la Cuadrienal de Praga en 2011 se enfocoacute en la escenografiacutea maacutesallaacute del campo teatral expandieacutendose hacia otras disciplinas Muchos de los liacutederes es

sus respectivas disciplinas tanto nacionales como extranjeros presentaron al puacuteblico lasinnitas facetas de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea que se extiende a traveacutes de muchasdisciplinas y geacuteneros en los cuales el escenoacutegrafo es a menudo el artista clave ndash el iniciador

y autor

Durante PQ 11 en los 12000 metros cuadrados del Palacio de Exposiciones sepresentaron y exhibieron maacutes de 60 paiacuteses y regiones Otros 500 eventos en vivo ndashconferencias presentaciones y talleres ndash se llevaron a cabo por toda Praga Pražskaacutekřižovatka proporcionoacute el espacio para la seccioacuten que exploroacute el creciente campo de laarquitectura teatral La exhibicioacuten Interseccioacuten Intimidad y espectaacuteculo se enfocoacuteen el espacio escenograacuteco que permite la conexioacuten directa del puacuteblico con el arte Porotro lado Scenofest presentoacute una amplia gama de proyectos para maacutes de 1500 artistas yestudiantes

Resumen del documento991252 Llamado a participacioacutenpara paiacuteses y regiones

Cuadrienal de Praga991252 Informacioacuten general

13 edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Disentildeoy Espacio Esceacutenico dePraga 2015

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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PAGE 11

Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PAGE 15

PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

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STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Contents

Spanish Summary rarr PAGE 6Prague Quadrennial ndash General Information rarr PAGE 10How to Take Part rarr PAGE 11Artistic Concept of the Prague Quadrennial 2O15 rarr PAGE 12Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction rarr PAGE 13Important Information rarr PAGE 14Where Does PQ lsquo15 Take Place rarr PAGE 15Section of Countries and Regions rarr PAGE 16Music rarr PAGE 17Weather rarr PAGE 18Politics rarr PAGE 19Student Section rarr PAGE 21Space Exhibition rarr PAGE 22Makers Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Objects Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Tribes Exhibition rarr PAGE 23Basic Timeline rarr PAGE 25Events 2O13-2O16 rarr PAGE 26

Statute of PQ lsquo15 rarr PAGES 27 991251 30Artistic amp Organizational Team rarr PAGES 31 991251 33Application Form rarr PAGES 34 991251 35

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La Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga es el mayor evento

internacional que explora el campo de la escenografiacutea en toda su extensioacuten ndash desde lasartes esceacutenicas pasando por el vestuario el disentildeo de iluminacioacuten y sonido hasta losnuevos enfoques para la escenografiacutea tales como site specic escenografiacutea aplicadarepresentaciones callejeras vestuario como representacioacuten y muchos otros

Cada cuatro antildeos desde 1967 la Cuadrienal de Praga explora y presenta las uacuteltimastendencias de la escenografiacutea y el trabajo arquitectoacutenico con el espacio El nuacutecleo deeste evento internacional se compone de una exhibicioacuten de maacutes de 60 paiacuteses dividida en

varias secciones competitivas El la uacuteltima deacutecada los eventos en vivo se convirtieron enuna parte importante de PQ ndash miles de profesionales espectadores y estudiantes puedenreunirse en los debates talleres conferencias y presentaciones en vivo En el pasado PQpresentoacute los trabajos de renombrados artistas como Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor JenniferTipton Heiner Goebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpaacuted

Schilling Boris Kudlička Kristin Delholm y muchos maacutes

Durante la uacuteltima deacutecada la Cuadrienal de Praga paso de ser un evento de exhibicionesindividuales a una organizacioacuten que proporciona una plataforma internacional paraproyectos continuos enfocados en la educacioacuten las exhibiciones el intercambio profesional

y de formacioacuten publicaciones proyectos artiacutesticos propios o simposios internacionalesen el aacuterea de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea Asimismo la organizacioacuten opera un boletiacutenelectroacutenico internacional sobre eventos relacionados con la escenografiacutea una biblioteca detextos especializados y una base de datos mundial de escuelas de escenografiacutea

La uacuteltima edicioacuten de la Cuadrienal de Praga en 2011 se enfocoacute en la escenografiacutea maacutesallaacute del campo teatral expandieacutendose hacia otras disciplinas Muchos de los liacutederes es

sus respectivas disciplinas tanto nacionales como extranjeros presentaron al puacuteblico lasinnitas facetas de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea que se extiende a traveacutes de muchasdisciplinas y geacuteneros en los cuales el escenoacutegrafo es a menudo el artista clave ndash el iniciador

y autor

Durante PQ 11 en los 12000 metros cuadrados del Palacio de Exposiciones sepresentaron y exhibieron maacutes de 60 paiacuteses y regiones Otros 500 eventos en vivo ndashconferencias presentaciones y talleres ndash se llevaron a cabo por toda Praga Pražskaacutekřižovatka proporcionoacute el espacio para la seccioacuten que exploroacute el creciente campo de laarquitectura teatral La exhibicioacuten Interseccioacuten Intimidad y espectaacuteculo se enfocoacuteen el espacio escenograacuteco que permite la conexioacuten directa del puacuteblico con el arte Porotro lado Scenofest presentoacute una amplia gama de proyectos para maacutes de 1500 artistas yestudiantes

Resumen del documento991252 Llamado a participacioacutenpara paiacuteses y regiones

Cuadrienal de Praga991252 Informacioacuten general

13 edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Disentildeoy Espacio Esceacutenico dePraga 2015

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

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WEATHER

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

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PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

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OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

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La Cuadrienal de Disentildeo y Espacio Esceacutenico de Praga es el mayor evento

internacional que explora el campo de la escenografiacutea en toda su extensioacuten ndash desde lasartes esceacutenicas pasando por el vestuario el disentildeo de iluminacioacuten y sonido hasta losnuevos enfoques para la escenografiacutea tales como site specic escenografiacutea aplicadarepresentaciones callejeras vestuario como representacioacuten y muchos otros

Cada cuatro antildeos desde 1967 la Cuadrienal de Praga explora y presenta las uacuteltimastendencias de la escenografiacutea y el trabajo arquitectoacutenico con el espacio El nuacutecleo deeste evento internacional se compone de una exhibicioacuten de maacutes de 60 paiacuteses dividida en

varias secciones competitivas El la uacuteltima deacutecada los eventos en vivo se convirtieron enuna parte importante de PQ ndash miles de profesionales espectadores y estudiantes puedenreunirse en los debates talleres conferencias y presentaciones en vivo En el pasado PQpresentoacute los trabajos de renombrados artistas como Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor JenniferTipton Heiner Goebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpaacuted

Schilling Boris Kudlička Kristin Delholm y muchos maacutes

Durante la uacuteltima deacutecada la Cuadrienal de Praga paso de ser un evento de exhibicionesindividuales a una organizacioacuten que proporciona una plataforma internacional paraproyectos continuos enfocados en la educacioacuten las exhibiciones el intercambio profesional

y de formacioacuten publicaciones proyectos artiacutesticos propios o simposios internacionalesen el aacuterea de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea Asimismo la organizacioacuten opera un boletiacutenelectroacutenico internacional sobre eventos relacionados con la escenografiacutea una biblioteca detextos especializados y una base de datos mundial de escuelas de escenografiacutea

La uacuteltima edicioacuten de la Cuadrienal de Praga en 2011 se enfocoacute en la escenografiacutea maacutesallaacute del campo teatral expandieacutendose hacia otras disciplinas Muchos de los liacutederes es

sus respectivas disciplinas tanto nacionales como extranjeros presentaron al puacuteblico lasinnitas facetas de la escenografiacutea contemporaacutenea que se extiende a traveacutes de muchasdisciplinas y geacuteneros en los cuales el escenoacutegrafo es a menudo el artista clave ndash el iniciador

y autor

Durante PQ 11 en los 12000 metros cuadrados del Palacio de Exposiciones sepresentaron y exhibieron maacutes de 60 paiacuteses y regiones Otros 500 eventos en vivo ndashconferencias presentaciones y talleres ndash se llevaron a cabo por toda Praga Pražskaacutekřižovatka proporcionoacute el espacio para la seccioacuten que exploroacute el creciente campo de laarquitectura teatral La exhibicioacuten Interseccioacuten Intimidad y espectaacuteculo se enfocoacuteen el espacio escenograacuteco que permite la conexioacuten directa del puacuteblico con el arte Porotro lado Scenofest presentoacute una amplia gama de proyectos para maacutes de 1500 artistas yestudiantes

Resumen del documento991252 Llamado a participacioacutenpara paiacuteses y regiones

Cuadrienal de Praga991252 Informacioacuten general

13 edicioacuten de laCuadrienal de Disentildeoy Espacio Esceacutenico dePraga 2015

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Organizadores La Cuadrienal de Praga es organizada por el Ministerio de Cultura de la Repuacuteblica Checa

y realizada por el Instituto de Artes y Teatro Tradicionalmente el evento se lleva a cabocon el apoyo de la UNESCO la Unioacuten Europea la Ciudad de Praga y muchas fundacionespatrocinadores y auspiciantes checos y extranjeros

Las exposiciones de cada uno de los paiacuteses y regiones son organizadas por reconocidasorganizaciones culturales internacionales ndash ministerios de cultura instituciones yorganizaciones artiacutesticas y teatrales festivales internacionales compantildeiacuteas teatrales y prestigiosasescuelas de teatro y arte

Coacutemo participar

Cada paiacutes participante es responsable de los aspectos organizativos nancieros y artiacutesticos de suspropias exposiciones en PQ Cada uno nombra su propio curador yo institucioacuten organizadoraque enviaraacute a la Organizacioacuten de PQ la solicitud obligatoria para las secciones individuales dePQ El Curador y su equipo preparan la exposicioacuten para las secciones principales ndash Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones yo Seccioacuten de Estudiantes para las cuales todas las entradas seraacuten aceptadasEl Curador tambieacuten propone a los Comisionados proyectos para los proyectos Espacio Objetos Autores y SpaceLab los Comisionados tienen derecho a elegir aceptar o rechazar entradas

El curador coordina la representacioacuten de su paiacutes en las secciones individuales y se encarga detodos los asuntos relativos a la participacioacuten de su paiacutes en la Cuadrienal de Praga Las condicionesartiacutesticas y organizativas para la participacioacuten en PQ se mencionan en el Estatuo y el Concepto

Los organizadores deberaacuten tener en cuenta que PQ lsquo15 es inclusiva y ofrece a curadores maacutesproyectos de representacioacuten de paiacuteses individuales asiacute como la participacioacuten de artistasindependientes Se ruega seguir con cuidado el llamado y el cronograma Ver el Estatuto yCronograma Baacutesico en este Llamado

El plazo para las Solicitudes para las secciones principales cierra el 31 de enerode 2014

Concepto Artiacutestico de laCuadrienal de Praga 2015

PQrsquo 15 llama a los artistas a reexionar sobre la escenografiacutea como un entorno performativoque en el teatro contemporaacuteneo tiene un efecto sobre la relaciones espaciales entre los diferentescomponentes del espectaacuteculo y al mismo tiempo determina la forma de los viacutenculos mentales (conla historia la sociedad el pasado o el futuro) y el viacutenculo entre el espectaacuteculo y el puacuteblico

PQ rsquo15 se enfoca en la escenografiacutea como EspacioCompartido (SharedSpace) ndash un espacioque afecta (determina) las relaciones entre la gente el espacio que es un lugar que invita a generar viacutenculos y principalmente un espacio que proporciona una plataforma para el intercambio ndash deideas historias y responsabilidades sociales

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

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PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

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SECTION OF COUNTRIES

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MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

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El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es explorar la teatralidad ndash imaginaria visionaria e invisible ndash comogeneradora de fuerzas socio-poliacuteticas

El objetivo de PQ lsquo15 es por medio del tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica propuesto para la Seccioacutende Paiacuteses y Regiones descubrirrevelar la escenografiacutea invisible ndash el entorno que nos afectaprofundamente a pesar de no ser tangible

A traveacutes de 3 exhibiciones experimentales PQ lsquo15 se ocuparaacute del proceso creativo ndash y la relacioacutenentre el Autor (el escenoacutegrafo-artista) el Espacio (la arquitectura del espectaacuteculo) y los Objetos (cosas con historias)

Informacioacuten importante

Aviso para los curadores de paiacuteses y regiones de PQ lsquo15

1 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones y la Seccioacuten de Estudiantes son las secciones principalesde PQrsquo 15 Cada paiacutes tendraacute un espacio individual dentro de estas secciones que va de los20m2 a los 60m2

2 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se inspira en el tema Muacutesica Clima Poliacutetica 3 La Seccioacuten de Paiacuteses y Regiones se realizaraacute en varios lugares en el centro de Praga4 La Seccioacuten de Estudiantes y las otras exhibiciones contaraacuten tambieacuten con espacios propios

en el centro de Praga

Listado de exhibicionesproyectos en los cualeslos curadores de cada paiacutes pueden participar

1 Seccioacuten paiacuteses y regionesSection of Countries and Regions(tema Muacutesica Clima PoliacuteticaMusic Weather Politics)

2 Seccioacuten de Estudiantes (Student Section)

3 Proyecto estudiantil SpaceLab ndash talleres conferencias presentaciones

4 Exhibicioacuten EspacioSpace

5 Exhibicioacuten ObjetosObjects

6 Exhibicioacuten AutoresMakers

7 Exhibicioacuten TribusTribes8 PQ Talks debates presentaciones conferencias talleres

Todos los proyectos y exhibiciones competiraacuten por los premios PQ lsquo15

En las exhibiciones experimentales (Objetos Autores Tribus) el programa SpaceLab (talleresconferencias presentaciones) y PQ Talks podraacuten tambieacuten participar artistas estudiantes grupos y visitantes

La Cuadrienal de Praga 2015 es parte del proyecto de tres antildeos EspacioCompartido MuacutesicaClima Poliacutetica (SharedSpace Music Weather Politics) organizado en colaboracioacuten cononce socios europeos que consiste en una serie de talleres de escenografiacutea simposios pasantiacuteas

eventos estudiantiles y exhibiciones entre los antildeos 2013 a 2016 Los eventos estaacuten abiertos alpuacuteblico general y proporcionan una plataforma para explorar la escenografiacutea contemporaacuteneaentre los eventos principales de la Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Doacutende

PQ rsquo15 se muda a palacios galeriacuteas academias teatrales y las calles del centro de Praga ndash laexposicioacuten se llevaraacute a cabo en una colaboracioacuten muy estrecha con Praga su historia arquitectura y presente Los curadores de las exhibiciones de cada paiacutes deberaacuten tener enconsideracioacuten el lugar concreto para su exhibicioacuten o proyecto

Calendario baacutesico

31 de enero de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones apra PQ lsquo15 Los curadores de las exhibicionesde cada paiacutes proporcionan los nombres de las organizaciones y las personas que garantizan suparticipacioacuten en PQ lsquo15 e informacioacuten sobre las exhibicionesproyectos en los que participaraacuten

2 ndash 4 de abril de 2014 Simposio de Curaduriacutea de espacio (Spatial Curation) de Praga en la cuallos curadores de cada una de las exhibiciones junto con otros participantes seraacuten informados endetalle sobre el concepto puntos de exposicioacuten y cuestiones teacutecnicas

1 ndash 31 de mayo de 2014 Conrmacioacuten de participacioacuten en las exhibicionesproyectos y reservade los espacios de exhibiciones concretos (los espacios seraacuten asignados de acuerdo con el ordencronoloacutegico de las reservas recibidas)

30 de septiembre de 2014 Cierre de las inscripciones para los eventos estudiantiles SpaceLab ylas exhibiciones experimentales Autores Objetos y Tribus

18 ndash 28 de junio de 2015 Cuadrienal de Praga 2015

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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PAGE 11

Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PAGE 15

PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is the largestscenography event in the world that explores a wide range of scenographic practices ndash fromstage design and costume design to lighting design sound design and new scenographicpractices such as site-specic applied scenography urban performance costume asperformance and much more

Since 1967 every four years the Prague Quadrennial has followed the latest trends inperformance design to be presented and established The core of the event is expositionsfrom over 50 countries in professional student and architecture parts of the event Howeverthe live events have become more crucial in the last ten years and make up a big part of thePQndash allowing for thousand of professionals audiences and students to meet in discussions workshops lectures performances and live exhibitions Previous exhibitions presentedthe work of renowned artists such as Anna Viebrock Julia Taymor Jennifer Tipton HeinerGoebbels Romeo Castellucci Josef Nadj Brett Bailey Anne Bogart Arpad Schilling BorisKudlička Kristin Delholm and many more

In the last decade the Prague Quadrennial has developed from periodical exhibition eventinto organization providing international platform for continuous projects

focusing on scenography education exhibitions exchanges publicationscommissioned projects international symposia as well as permanent electronicscenography newsletter library and art school world database

The Prague Quadrennial 2011 the previous edition of the PQ focused on expanding thenotion of scenography and invited presenters to show the unlimited faces of contemporaryscenography that crosses many disciplines and genres where the scenographer often becomesthe core artist ndash the initiator-creator

PQ lsquo11 presented over 60 countries in over 12 000 m2 of exhibitions at the National Galleryndash Veletržniacute Palace as well as over 500 live events ndash lectures performances and workshops

all over the city of Prague Besides the main professional and student expositions it provideda challenging space for exploration of theatre architecture as an extended eld in the PragueCrossroads (St Annersquos church) Additionally the inclusive Intersection Intimacy and Spectacle exhibition focused on scenographic space where art and audiences meet and Scenofest included a large series of educational projects for over 1500 artists and students

Organizers The Prague Quadrennial is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the CzechRepublic and realized by the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague It traditionally takes place with the support of UNESCO the European Union and the Prague City Council

Individual expositions of countries and regions are organized by some of the mostimportant cultural organizations in the world including ministries of culture art andtheatre institutions as well as organizations international festivals theatre companies andprestigious theatre and visual arts schools

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Prague QuadrennialGeneral Information

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

wwwpqcz wwwpqczene-scenography wwwsharedspacecz

How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Music Briefby PQ CommissionerJiřiacute Heřman

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Politics Briefby PQ CommissionerAby Cohen

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

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SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

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STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Each participating country is responsible for the organizational nancial and artistic aspects of theirown expositions in the PQ Each appoints its own curator andor organizing institution that sends theobligatory application for the individual sections to the Organizer of the PQ The Curator and its teamprepare the exposition for the main sections ndash Section of Countries and Regions andor Student Section to which all entries will be accepted The Curator also proposes projects to Commissioners of the SpaceObjects Makers and Spacelab projects who have the right to choose accept or refuse entries

The curator coordinates the representation of their country in the individual sections andnegotiates all matters concerning the countryrsquos participation with the Prague Quadrennial Artisticand organizational conditions of participation in the PQ are stated in the Statute and Concept

Organizers please note that PQ lsquo15 is inclusive and offers more projects for curators of individualcountriesrsquo representation as well as for independent artists to take part Please follow the call andtimeline carefully

See Statute and Basic Timeline in this Call

Deadline for Applications for main sections is January 31 2014

wwwpqcz wwwpqczene-scenography wwwsharedspacecz

How to Take Part

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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13th Prague Quadrennialof Performance Designand Space

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

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We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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In the last years there have been many dramatic world events in the shape of large gatheringsof people connecting to express their will and needs These gatherings have shown the powerof live meetings of people as well as the need of people to use theatricality as their way ofexpressing (acting masking building temporary structures) It is time to rethink theatreas (what thinker Alan Read calls) lsquothe last human venuersquo ndash place where living people haveliving connections ndash and where large groups of people come to share realities narrativesand experiences as well as potential possibilities ction and fantasy Prague Quadrennial2015 aims to revisit the power of theatre and imaginary and discover the powers andresponsibilities of scenography that use yet exceed the theatrical

PQ lsquo15 invites participants to explore scenography as performative environment thatinuences not only spatial relations of elements of performance but also determines mentalrelations (narrative social past or future) as well as relations between the performance andaudience in contemporary theatre

PQ lsquo15 aims to explore scenography as SharedSpace ndash space that inuences (designs)relationships between people space that provides room for relating and more than anythingspace that provides place for sharing ndash sharing of ideas stories and of social responsibilities

PQ lsquo15 aims to revisit theatrical ndash imaginary visionary and non-existent as creative socio-political power

PQ lsquo15 aims to discover invisible scenographies ndash environments that inuence us deeplyalthough they are intangible ndash through proposing Music Weather and Politics as mainthemes for the scenography exhibition of Section of Countries and Regions

PQ lsquo15 aims to focus on the making ndash and the relationship between the Makers (scenographer-artist) ndash the Space (performance architecture) and the Objects (products withstories) within three additional exhibitions

PQ lsquo15 aims to play with situating relating and gathering of people to provide for inclusive

spaces and projects

PQ lsquo15 will happen in multiple spaces in the very center of Prague and invites visitors tothink locally (exploring the specic of the local) in the connection with the city both when working on presentations from their country and when exhibiting in the specic places inPrague

Share the experience share the viewing share responsibility ndash share space

Sodja Lotker

PQ Artistic Director

Artistic Concept

Scenography as SharedSpace Introduction

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Curators of Countries and Regions please note that

1 Section of Countries and Regions and Student Section are the main sectionsof the PQ rsquo15 Each country will have individual spaceroom varying from 20m2 to 60m2 within these sections

2 PQ lsquo15 Section of Countries and Regions has inspirational themes( Music Weather Politics)

3 Section of Countries and Regions will take place in a number of separate spacesin the center of Prague

4 Student Section and other exhibitions and project will also take place in their ownseparate spaces in the centre of Prague

List of expositionsprojects Curators of Countries can take part in

1 Section of Countries and Regions (themes Music Weather Politics)2 Student Section3 SpaceLab student projects ndash workshops lectures presentations4 Space Exhibition (presenting theatre architecture and performance space)

5 Objects Exhibition6 Makers Exhibition7 Tribes Exhibition8 PQ Talks discussions presentations lectures workshops

Please note that all exhibitions and projects are eligible for awards

Please also note that SpaceLab Space exhibition Object exhibition Makers exhibitionTribes exhibition and PQ Talks are curated Commissioners and curators responsible havethe right to choose accept or refuse entries Music Weather and Politicsrsquo Commissionersdo not have the right to refuse entries Their briefs have inspirational purpose and theCommissioners will have the consulting and supervising role

Please note that the presented work in all parts should be no older than 6 years (except ifthe curatorial concept and theme make this necessary)Work presented in the sections caninclude work by artists from a particular country (also realized in a different country) and work created in the country presenting the work (including artists from other countries) Thesame work can be presented in expositions of different countries

Individual artists students groups visitors can take part in the experimental exhibitions (theObjects the Makers the Tribes) SpaceLab events (workshops lecturers performances) and PQ Talks

Artistic Concept

Important Information

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Politics Briefby PQ CommissionerAby Cohen

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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PQ lsquo15 moves into the very heart of Prague ndash the central area between the National Theatreand the Old Town Square The series of spaces that PQ lsquo15 will occupy include two baroquepalaces an ex-monastery building St Anneacutes church a 19th century building near the OldTown Square where Franz Kafka was born the basement of a house from the middle agesa theatre academy a unique gallery from 19th century City Gallery spaces and many more As a result PQ lsquo15 will happen in deep connection with the city ndash its history architectureand contemporary issues and aims to reclaim for art this otherwise extremely touristy area byexploring the routes and places lsquoinvisiblersquo to usual tourists

The Section of Countries and Regions will be divided into multiple places (a few countryexhibitions each) allowing for visitors to have a short walk and mental space in betweenexhibitions Student events and the Student Section as well as Objects Makers and Space exhibitions will also occupy individual specic spaces in the center of Prague

Because the PQ is spread into a series of places the spaces lsquoin-betweenrsquo ndash the walk throughthe public space of Prague ndash will become part of the Prague Quadrennial exhibition Theroute lsquoin-betweenrsquo will allow for many things to happen including the living outdoorsexhibition Tribes This way Prague itself will become urban scenography for this

international exhibition where the journey is not just a way to get from place to place but theplace itself Where the walk the passing through is the core of the experience and where thehead architects of the PQ become urbanists

Curators of Countries are invited to take into account the specic place ofindividual expositions and projects when working on their presentation Pleasenote that each space has its own spatial technical and production rules of installation So becareful when choosing your spaces Be scenographically emphatic with the space ndash traditionalpanel exhibitions are not applicable in all spaces Basic information about individual spacescan be found in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqczThe average size of space available in the Countries and Regions Section and in the Student

Section is 25 square meters According to the timeline Curators of Countries will choose thespecic space for their expositions projects after the visit to Prague for the Spatial Curation symposium in April 2014 (see timeline and call for applications) that will include a tour of allPQ lsquo15 spaces

Please also note that Curators of Countries can rent galleries other than PQ ofcial spaces ifthey need bigger or specic space (an additional list of galleries in the area of the center ofPrague to be approached by the Curators of Countries can be found in the Enclosures ofthis Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz)

Artistic Concept

Where

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Politics Briefby PQ CommissionerAby Cohen

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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The Section of Countries and Regions will take place with the themes of Music Weather Politics ndash basic environments of aesthetics ethics and Mother Nature that provide space forour daily dramas The Music Weather and Politics theme aims to explore environments thathave deeper inuence on our performance though they are intangible as a premise that theinvisible might be the most important and powerful part of scenography

Curatorial briefs of individual themes are proposed by a director a scenographer and

a curator to provide three approaches to scenography and exhibiting scenography

Commissioners of individual themes Music ndash Czech opera director Jiřiacute HeřmanWeather ndash UK artistscenographer Simon Banham and Politics ndash Brazilian curatorscenographer Aby Cohen provide the brief for individual themes (see texts on individualthemes below) and will provide dialogue and guidance for curators and teams of thecountries

Individual curators and teams of the Section of Countries and Regions will choose one of thethemes ndash Music Weather Politics (combination of themes is also allowed)

Artistic Concept

Section of Countriesand Regions

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Music in a shared space

Music as the main inspiration in contemporary scenography music can evoke innerspatial visions often invisible ndash imperceptible in the outer world

The staging of spaces in all different contemporary music genres is always an intensecreative process Its goal is to drag the listener into the subject and essence of music During

the staging of a musical production we open ourselves up to a new dimension of a musicalcomposition perception If we are staging music in an authentic space we also discovera new dimension of the space as well as the music Today new noteworthy interpretationsof staged musical works are being created in non-theatre spaces Those are exemplarysamples of a vital dialogue between music and the space

We create music composition but we also create spatial-musical composition ndasha scenography of music based on working with time - using a motion Time unites musicand space all changes inside of it happen simultaneously or contrapuntally Dynamicsrhythm harmony ambiance mood depth and many other musical elements andattributes are possible to develop in different ways also in space

Space reects the life and the spiritual status of a society a deeper perception of a space canhelp a deeper understanding of a human being and in its never ending change we can look for the meaning of our existence

In the following four parts I propose an inspiration for countriesrsquo curators

ldquoFrom music to spaceldquo ndash Musical composition as the main inspirational source forcreating of a new space

ldquoFrom space to musicldquo ndash Space as the main inspiration for music

ldquoIdeal space for music perceptionrdquo ndash Present an ideal space for music perception

ldquoMusic and space improvisation with the weather and politics themerdquo ndash Spaceand time free to choose

Work presented can include all areas of contemporary theatre

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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Music Briefby PQ CommissionerJiřiacute Heřman

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Politics Briefby PQ CommissionerAby Cohen

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Fog perhaps a cloud that touches the ground Scenography perhaps the imagined made tangible for a (eeting) moment

Weather [wheTHer] n condition of atmosphere at a certain time and place

WeatherScenography invites curators of Countries and Regions Section to [Re]Shape the permeable borders of the accidental the unknown and the mysterious This is an invitationto explore the fragile and possibly accidental moments when ldquobeing thererdquo reveals thehere and the now and the ldquopotentiallyrdquo never again When the ldquobeing thererdquo is a sharedexperience when the audience becomes the atmosphere the changing weather the fog ofmany separate droplets becoming one

The Weather outside the weather as co-author a transient and changeable collaboratorWhen placing work outside the weather is potentially a very positive agent of disruption itcan become the most signicant optic through which we might view that work this mightbe rainbows or vivid crimson sunsets or a large moon or driving rain or mysteriousmists these visually dramatic events that carry their own dramaturgy

The Weather within the weather as scenographic element taking the outside insideThe creation of weather inside fog rain wind and temperature variations are all elementsthat can regularly inhabit our theatre spaces what are the consequences of invitingwhatrsquos out there in here Perhaps as an agent of disruption the potential riskexcitement isgreater when we attempt to control the weather Perhaps we ldquoallowrdquo it to destroy our otherscenography and embrace the uncertain outcome

The Weather within us the audience as weather As well as the ldquotemperaturerdquo of an audience that can affect the atmosphere of an event whathappens when an audience is given direct agency When there is an ldquoinvitation to actrdquoWhen the spectator becomes a creative agent a force (of nature)

For a moment letrsquos [mis]hear ldquoweatherrdquo as ldquowhetherrdquo an opportunity to ask ldquowhat ifrdquo

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

rarr rarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Weather Briefby PQ CommissionerSimon Banham

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SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Politics Briefby PQ CommissionerAby Cohen

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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PAGE 19

SPACE ndash as well as art when they have disrupted their rules or regimesndash becomes POLITICS

Following the main concept of sharing space and its double interpretation of fragmentationand exchange the curators of the Countries and Regions Section are invited to work outa new geography for the PQ lsquo15 by taking on the concept of SPACE as POLITICS

POLITICS aims to establish interactions lead to coexistence and bring into the center of thescene - the designer for performance Recognizing the critical role played by the designerand his responsibility to (re)dene a space as a lively place formed by overlapping layersof intertwining of ideas building a plural identity where a strong statement of politicalorganization is presented in a way no one can remain indifferent Considering spatial featuresthat lead to the rule of POLITICS ndash its capacity for interaction divisibility and congurationthis is an invitation to think about its occupancy itrsquos (re)conguration not only as a lay-outbut as a political attitude and how it will affect the other curators on the borders Tracesof territories in common shared or in contest reinforcing the idea that space is not a staticlifeless body but always on the move

ON STAGE INTERACTION SPACEndash Space as the result of interrelations A stance to promote possibilities for the coexistence of multiple voices that vibrate in the contemporary theatricalscene A demarcated territory a SPACE WITHIN contained by dialogues convergent or not

OFF STAGE SPACE as TRAJECTORY ndash Exploits the divisibility of the space through themovement as a political attitude The crossing of simultaneous (or impermanent) trajectoriesembedded by strong meanings and points of view

AS A STAGE SPACE as OPEN TERRITORY ndash The unnished space in continuous processof construction A SPHERICAL space as an open system unlocked to the unpredicted givinga chance to promote an authentic (re)construction of the unknown

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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Section of Countries and Regions 991252 notes

More detailed texts of individual briefs from Music Weather Politics Commissioners can befound in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Live events within the expositions of Section of Countries and Regions are welcome

If you are interested in using public space for exhibiting or performing you must inform whenrst applying in January 2014

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly aroundEurope Some of the expositions from Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have beenexhibited elsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a networkof possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from Sectionof Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason youshould think about the possibility to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be (or atleast parts of it) transportable and re-installed

Detailed production information will be announced in the Organisational Manual distributedto all Curators of Countries after January 31 2014 and then regularly updated

Curators of Countries are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures andperformances and to bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talks presentations lectures for and by thousands of studentsfrom all over the world Detailed information on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Curators and teams of Countries are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibitionin the center of Prague

Artistic Concept Section of Countriesand Regions

rarr rarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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PAGE 23

The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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PAGE 24

PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

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The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

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Student Section

Curators of the Student Section are invited to focus on the main subjectsaimsthemesof the PQ lsquo15 but are also given space for innovation for the free play of their students Weencourage presentations that include more than one school dialogue between schools(nationally or internationally) different types of schools (theatre visual art and architectureschools) as well as dialogue between students and professionals

Curators are also invited to curateprovide workshops lectures and performances and to

bring students to the live educational project SpaceLab that will take place at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts SpaceLab will provide workshops performances talkspresentations lectures for and by thousands of students from all over the world Detailedinformation on SpaceLab project will be announced in 2014

Teachers and students of schools exhibiting as well as not exhibiting in the Student Section are invited to exhibit their Tribes in the live exhibition in the center of Prague

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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The Space Exhibition

Space is commissioned by scenographerarchitect Serge von Arx who provides the Curatorsof Countries with the brief as well as direction for ways of exhibiting and presenting

The focus of the SPACE project of PQ lsquo15 lies in the meeting and merging ofarchitecture and theatre It is not our aim to show new buildings for theatre butto inquire current tendencies within performative architecture as the symbioticrelationship between theatre and architecture The according projects within the

widest imaginable eld of the arts and architecture can have taken any shape aslong as they were or still are experiential with all senses and distinctly relate tothe specicity of the site they occupy for any duration of time The ldquogenius locirdquo plays a special role in this context as the presented projects will be discussed in theirability to relate to local identities to reverberate question and reshape those

The notion the context of and the perspective on the vernacular are keys to theinquiry of contemporary scenography How these very local identities relate tosuper-national positions in a globalized context and how relevant projects oscillatebetween the two is to be explored in the three parts of the SPACE project at PQ lsquo15

Exhibitors should explore new ways of showing works of scenography thatcommonly are conveyed with the use of photos video footage drawings andmodels All of these forms which we are used to substantially lack the crucialquality of any scenography the relation to the human body

The projects proposed for the PQ lsquo15 SPACE exhibition must have been realized inany artistic performative or architectural format and must have a distinct focuson performative architecture Projects within performative architecture must take place not solely at the meeting point of architecture and performance but where thetwo elds penetrate each other

The SPACE consists of 3 parts which are interwoven and reect the essentialconstituents of scenography Each participant must contribute to at least 2 of the 3 following presentation formats

1) Architecture ndash ldquoexhibition of realityrdquo material samples representing therespective works mounted in the real-size format without further explanation2) Theatricality ndash ldquodiscursiveperformative spacerdquo project description and presentation (exhibition and lectures) as well as live discussions 3) City ndash ldquotheatricality of urban spacerdquo city tour investigating the urban identityTours on a variety of topics genres (by artists teachers curators and theorists)and forms (lecture an inspirational walk a workshop) should be in dialogue withthe distinct character of the Prague city center which represents an utter lack of thevernacular which has become an articial world echoing itself

Read more in the Enclosures of this Concept that can be found online at wwwpqcz

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The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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PAGE 25

January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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PAGE 23

The Makers Exhibition

The Makers Exhibition is a new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming toexhibit the living makers in the act of making The project is commissioned by scenographer

(theatermaker) Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir

Food chain factory by MAKERS Design food as you would design your theaterdesign designer food Each maker will create a makers journey by designinga full performative food experience - a dining journey in a cooking exhibitionmachinery environment provided by the PQ The scenographers-makers are invitedto design their theatrical food and dining experience for the public in a workshopkitchen in a gallery in Prague In this exhibition the process of the making and theconsummation as well as the traces of the food design will be exhibited

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the artists who will make the food within thislive exhibition (more information early 2014) We hope that with your help the exhibition can

include a printed archive of cooking recipesdocumentation of the process

The Objects Exhibition

The Objects Exhibition is also new experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit props and their stories It is commissioned by artistarchitect Tomaacuteš Svoboda

Objects Prop Stories ndash we understand objects as reference of stories stories of their

authors users spectators or their performance Objects have their own story birthlife and after-life We are looking for interesting stories hidden behind individual props We will exhibit not only the props themselves but also their stories told byCurators of Countries and Regions within a video installation

Curators of Countries will be invited to provide the props and the stories to be exhibited(more information early 2014)

The Tribes Exhibition

The Tribes Exhibition is the third experimental addition to the main exhibition aiming to

exhibit groups of live people and treat public space as exhibition scenography commissioned

by PQ Artistic Director Sodja Lotker Within a tribe one has to share their own self ndash which might be painful Withina tribe one gets the safety and stimulation of being in a group Do we still need thatTheatricality is colorful fake and over the top Can theatricality be conceptualThe PQ will install healing tribes on the weak points of the city of Prague led byinternationally renowned artists and shamans who will question everything

Curators of Countries (as well as students individual artists and audiences) are invited to bring their own living exhibition Tribes (more information early 2014)

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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PAGE 24

PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 2536

PAGE 25

January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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PAGE 26

Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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PQ Talks

PQ Talks is a large section of presentations lectures and discussions will again take

place Curators of Countries will be invited to take an active part The specic topics will be

announced in 2014

Further projects including an extensive project for children and youth PQ for Children will be announced in 2014

Enclosures - Additional information that can be

found online at wwwpqcz1 Music Weather Politics and Space detailed briefs2 Information about PQ spaces3 Information about additional spaces4 Critical texts about PQ 2O11

Artistic ConceptrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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PAGE 25

January 31 2014 Deadline for applications for PQ lsquo15 Curators of Countries will provideus with names of organization and people organizing the participation as well as the specicexhibitions and projects that they aim to take part in

April 2 ndash 4 2014 Spatial Curation symposium in Prague where Curators of Countriesand other participants will be provided detailed information about the concept spaces andtechnical issues

May 1 ndash May 31 2014 Conrmation of participation in individual expositions andprojects and reservation of specic space for the exposition (on rst come rst served basis)

September 30 2014 Deadline for applications of proposals for SpaceLab studentevents and experimental exhibitions Makers Objects and Tribes

September 30 2014 Curators of Countries must announce the themeand layout of their expositions to the PQ Organizers

June 17 2015 Ofcial Opening of the Prague Quadrennial 2015

June 18 ndash June 28 2015 Prague Quadrennial 2015

For more informationgo to wwwpqcz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

Prague Quadrennial 2O15991251991251991251 Basic Timeline

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 2636

PAGE 26

Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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PAGE 33

Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3636

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Events 2O13 991252 2O16

The Prague Quadrennial 2015 is part of a three-year project SharedSpace MusicWeather Politics organized in cooperation with 11 European partners that consists ofa series of scenography workshops symposia residencies student events and expositionsfrom 2013-2016 Events are open to the public and will provide space for the exploration ofcontemporary scenography in between the main Quadrennial events

The rst-ever masked symposium Layering Reality the Right to Mask will take place inPrague on October 31 and November 1 2013 Follow our web page and newsletter for detailedinformation The most important symposium for curators of countries is the Spatial Curation symposium held April 2 - 4 2014 in Prague Curators and teams of Countries arehighly recommended to participate This symposium will provide you with more informationabout concepts themes and projects and will enable you to visit all the exhibition spaces We would also like to hear your ideas and rst concepts This symposium aims to explorecuration of scenography ndash systems processes problems and concepts It aims to explorecuration of scenography as a way to nd a new language of telling a story about a specicscenographic project within the exhibition as ways to create specic environments

for unfolding of the core idea of the scenographic project - scenography curator asa scenographer as a storyteller as an editor as a dramaturg

The symposium will be open to the public (we will also invite proposals from speakers outsideof the PQ teams of individual Countries to present) The ofcial call for applications will beannounced in October 2013

Please also note that within the SharedSpace 2013-16 projects we have planned a possibletouring of the individual expositions of all sections and projects mainly around EuropeSome of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions 2011 have been exhibitedelsewhere after the Prague Quadrennial This has inspired us to provide a network of

possibilities for further life of the expositions Some of the organizational partners of the SharedSpace project have space and nances to show some of the expositions from the Section of Countries and Regions and other PQ exhibitions in their countries For this reason you should think about the opportunity to conceive your exposition in such a way for it to be(or at least parts of it) transportable and re-installed

wwwsharedspacecz

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

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Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3336

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3636

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PAGE 31

Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3336

PAGE 33

Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3636

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8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

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PAGE 31

Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3336

PAGE 33

Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3636

Page 31: CONCEPTOARTÍSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3136

PAGE 31

Sodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) PQ Artistic Director and the Tribes CuratorJiřiacute Heřman (CZ) Commissioner of the Music ExhibitionSimon Banham (UK) Commissioner of the Weather ExhibitionAby Cohen (BRA) Commissioner of the Politics ExhibitionSerge von Arx (NOR) Commissioner of the Space ExhibitionRebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir (ISL) Commissioner of the Makers ExhibitionTomaacuteš Svoboda (CZ) Commissioner of the Objects Exhibition

Sodja Zupanc Lotker is currently working on her fth Prague Quadrennial Previously shehas acted as the Artistic Director and curator of Intersection (2011) Programming Director(2007) and the coordinator of the special project The Heart of the PQ (2003) She operatesas a devising dramaturg for independent theatre dance and site-specic projects in theCzech Republic USA Brazil etc and has lecturedtaught at the Visual Arts Academy inBrno the Prague Performing Arts Academy Columbia University the Central School ofSpeech and Drama and a number of festivals and symposia She is a PhD candidate in theatretheory at Vienna University researching spatial dramaturgy in contemporary theatre

Jiřiacute Heřman is a Czech stage director He studied singing at the Pilsen Conservatory andthen opera directing at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in PragueHe has worked in professional theatre since 2002 Owing to his highly original consistentand rounded style possessing in addition to aesthetic qualities a bold spiritual dimension hesoon ranked among the most notable contemporary Czech opera directors wwwjirihermancom

Simon Banham has spent the past 30 years working as a freelance ScenographerTheatreDesigner He was Head of Design (1991-1995) at Contact Theatre Manchester and hasa long and continuing relationship with Music Theatre Wales Most of his current work is with Quarantine the company he co-founded with directors Richard Gregory and Renny

OrsquoShea in 1998 Since September 1999 he has taught in the Department of Theatre Film andTelevision at Aberystwyth University wwwqtinecom

Aby Cohen Brazilian designer and art director for theater exhibition and cinemaRepresenting Brazil she has participated in ve editions of the Prague Quadrennial since1995 At PQ rsquo11 as curator and designer for the Brazilian National Exhibition Characters and Frontiers Brazilian Scenographic Territory her exhibition was awarded with the GoldenTriga She started her career as a theatre designer at Macunaima Theatre Group Sincethen she has been working with distinct theatre companies and for a variety of independenttheater productions She is a lecturer for a MA Scenography program at the University ofFine Arts FBA Sao Paulo and has been working for a number of Art Exhibitions in Brazil

with an international interface as such as Bienal of Arts of Sao Paulo and Bienal Mercosulamong others Aby has been a member of OISTAT since 2003 and is currently collaboratingfor WSD2013 as Design as Performance Coordinator and on the Exhibition curatorial panel

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

International Artistic Teamof the Prague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3336

PAGE 33

Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3636

Page 32: CONCEPTOARTÍSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3236

PAGE 32

Serge von Arx architect and professor of scenography is the Artistic Director of theScenography Department of the Norwegian Theatre Academy (of the Oslashstfold UniversityCollege) Serge received his degree in architecture at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology) In 1998 he began his long-term collaboration with Robert Wilsonon various stage exhibition and installation design projects all over the world and he isa regular mentor and architectural consultant at the ldquoWatermill Centerrdquo on Long Island New York In 2001 he opened his design studio in Berlin and since 2006 he has been a residentin Oslo Serge is lecturing and implementing workshops at various international universitiesand other institutions and works internationally as a scenographer designer and architectfocusing on ldquoperformative architecturerdquo the encounter of architecture and theatre Hisresearch includes various international publications and curatorial engagements wwwsergevonarxcom

Rebekka A Ingimundardoacutettir is an Icelandic theatermaker working internationally for thelast 20 years She has been directing and making her own performances as well as working

with other theatergroups City Theater Iceland Czech National Theater National TheaterIceland Silo Theatre Sokkabandid Second Hand Women Svoumlluleikhusid StudmennDramasmidjan Dansleikhus med ekka Komediu Leikhusid Kazerne Space DivadloKomedie Dogtroep She has also designed stage and costume for theaters and lms and hasgivien workshops at the Icelandic University of Arts wwwrebekkapanvillacomblog

Tomaacuteš Svoboda is one of those visual artists who use processes and expressive tools ofother disciplines He shifts from literature to scenography and lm and he combines theirelements mostly for gallery exhibitions concerning alternative forms of narration He alwaysputs emphasis on economic and model solutions often working with short descriptive texts

and their simple composition His installations are complemented by fragments of three-dimensional scenes or architectonic constructions reminiscent of ephemeral structures inlm and TV studios He is an author of several architectonic realisations of exhibitions inpublic gallery institutions Since 2001 he has taken part in a management and concept of theDisplay gallery now under the name tranzitdisplay wwwtranzitdisplaycz

International Artistic TeamrarrCall for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3336

PAGE 33

Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3436

country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

8122019 CONCEPTOARTIacuteSTICODELACUADRIENALDEPRAGA2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullconceptoartisticodelacuadrienaldepraga2015 3536

Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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Pavla Petrovaacute (CZ) DirectorSodja Zupanc Lotker (CZ) Artistic DirectorDaniela Pařiacutezkovaacute (CZ) Executive DirectorAlice Doleželovaacute (CZ) Chief CoordinatorViktoacuteria Hozzovaacute (CZ) Head of ProductionOndřej Kuhn (CZ) Public RelationsMichaela Buriaacutenkovaacute (CZ) AssistantTomaacuteš Svoboda Zbyněk Baladraacuten (CZ) Architectural and Spatial SolutionMartina a Jan Svobodovi (CZ) PQ for Children

Detailed information about the concept and projects of the PQ lsquo15 as well as organizationalinformation will be distributed to the curators in the Organisational Manual during thepreparation of the event and will be available for download at wwwpqcz

For all questions and inquires contact Alice Doleželovaacute Chief Coordinator ndash alicedolezelovapqcz

For all questions concerning artistic and curatorial content concepts and programscontact Sodja Zupanc Lotker Artistic Director ndash sodjalotkerpqcz

For all other questions contact Daniela Pařiacutezkovaacute Executive Director ndash danielaparizkovapqcz

The Organizational Teamof the Prague Quadrennial2O15

Call for ApplicationsPrague Quadrennial 2O15

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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country

name of countryregion curator

institution

contact rarr

first name surname

address

telephonefax

e-mailweb

skype

PLEASE MARK FOR PARTICIPATION IN

Please mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Sectionof Countries and Regions Space Exhibitionand Student Section is January 31 2O14

PLEASE INFORM US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING PUBLIC SPACE FOR EXHIBITINGOR PERFORMING SECTION OF COUNTRIES AND REGIONS AND SPECIFY THE EVENT

12

SECTION OF COUNTRIES

AND REGIONS

MUSIC

WEATHER

POLITICS

SPACE EXHIBITION

STUDENT SECTION

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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Please note that further information about your participation will berequired ndash the theme and title of your exposition in the Section of Countriesand Regions and Space Exhibition as well as a one page description of thecuratorial concept including installation concept and ground plans of theexposition ndash by September 3O 2O14

Contact Prague Quadrennialco Arts and Theatre InstituteCeletna 17 11O OO Prague 1Czech Republic Phone +42O 224 8O9 1O2Fax +42O 224 8O9 225 e-mail pqpqczwebsite wwwpqczFollow us on Facebook ampTwitter

Please return the filled application

form no later than January 31 2O14

PLEASE MARK YOUR PRELIMINARYINTEREST INPlease mark whichever applies

rarr Final deadline to apply for Objects MakersTribes exhibition and SpaceLab workshops isSeptember 3O 2O14

We will participate in SYMPOSIUM FOR CURATORS in Prague April 2-4 2O14

OBJECTS EXHIBITION

MAKERS EXHIBITION

TRIBES EXHIBITION

SPACELAB WORKSHOPS

22

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