Skourtis, Andreas (2023) A New Performing Arts Centre for the International School of Uganda. [Video]

Abstract

Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023

PQ Talks: Acts of Assembly: Projects from the Performance Space Exhibition

The Performance Space Exhibition at PQ 2023 provides a forum for reconsidering how theatres and performance spaces operate as acts of assembly and sites for community. Four selected projects will be presented, offering insights into diverse venues.

This panel offers insights into four selected projects from the Performance Space Exhibition. It explores how contemporary theatres and performance spaces facilitate different acts of assembly and operate as sites for communal action and cultural production. The four selected projects are: the re-building of the Australian experimental theatre, La Mama, after it was gutted by fire in 2018; a new performing arts centre for the International School of Uganda in Kampala; AGORA, a temporary meeting place for an assembly of active citizens built at the 2019 National Eisteddfod in Llanrwst, Wales; and, this space is for you / cet espace est pour toi, a site-responsive XR installation and conceptual site for considering ‘refugia’ and spatial reorientations of performing place.

About the moderator

Andrew Filmer is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK, and is Curator of the Performance Space Exhibition.

About the speakers

Meg White (La Mama) is an architect, designer & performer. She was the design architect for Rebuild La Mama.

Helen Hopkins (La Mama) is an actor, scriptwriter & producer. Helen is deputy chair of the La Mama Committee of Management.

Andreas Skourtis (A New Performing Arts Centre for the International School of Uganda) is a London-based architect, scenographer and lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Robert Kiggundu (A New Performing Arts Centre for the International School of Uganda) is the principal and founding director of ArchForum and President of the Uganda Society of Architects

Marc Rees (AGORA) is an interdisciplinary artist/curator/director of groundbreaking site-specific projects around the world

Jenny Hall (AGORA) is an architect, carpenter, artist and director of the architecture studio Craftedspace

Shauna Janssen (this space is for you / cet espace est pour toi) is a performance designer and professor at Concordia University, Montreal.

Kévin Pinvidic (this space is for you / cet espace est pour toi) is a performance designer based in Montreal and a PhD candidate at Concordia University.