Title & Author:

Staging ground : infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement / John Bingham-Hall, editor.

Publication:

[Arezzo, Italy] : Theatrum Mundi, [2025]

Description:

157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Location of publisher from publisher website.
Includes bibliographical references.
PROLOGUE: Shifting grounds. New moves on urban grounds / John Bingham-Hall ; Decelerating the pace, adapting the infrastructure / Magda Maaoui ; Peripheral gaze / Daniel Mebarek -- PART 1: Acts of crossing. Roaming the périphérique / Jonathan Steiger ; Reflective bodies / Myrto Delimichali ; Gestures of care / Studio Inscape ; Second nature; on impulse, mischief, and the impression / Nicolas Howden & Emily Jones (Rubble) -- PART 2: Infrastructural dramaturgies. Grand, grand Paris! / Ewa Effiom & Margarida Waco ; Corridor f(r)ictions / Diāna Mikāne & Paula Veidenbauma (gel office) ; Bodies of water / Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė (Neo-futuristic Walks) -- CODA: Performative strategies. Scores are hope oriented / DNDimitri Szuter ; Common sense common space / Melissa Harrison ; Peripheral notes on (de)sign / Typical Organization ; From performance to grounds and back again / John Bingham-Hall.

Summary:

"Climate breakdown, environmental justice, urban expansion, metropolitanisation. A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions, transforming cultures of movement, both human and non-human. But these changes are all-too-often narrated at scales that surpass the embodied experiences of those that live them every day. To better understand the bodily and cultural implications of these transformations, we can learn from the crafts of the stage - choreography, sound, narrative, dramaturgy. This book assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performative scores, developed through a three-year creative research programme led by Theatrum Mundi. Grounded in the metropole of Grand Paris, they also aim to offer strategies that can be enacted anywhere, expanding the tools available for thinking, making, and inhabiting mobility infrastructures."--Cover page 4.

ISBN:

9781036921910 paperback
1036921913 paperback
9791399087901 paperback

Subject:

Movement, Aesthetics of.
Movement, Psychology of.
Public spaces.
Theater and society.
Théâtre et société.
Esthétique du mouvement.
Psychomotricité.
Espaces publics.

Added entries:

Bingham-Hall, John, editor
Theatrum Mundi (Organisation), sponsor, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326173
Call No.: 326173
Copy: 1
Status: Available