Scenographic Knowledge and the Archive: Staged Spaces between Artistic Practice, Cultural Memory and Scientific Reflexion

该项目名为“场景知识和档案”，是慕尼黑大学研究项目“场景：当代艺术中的知识和美学生产力”的一部分，该项目由DFG海森堡计划资助。这个更大的项目涉及当代舞台设计的概念和美学。作为空间的生产和场景布置，今天的场景设计以多种形式出现：从舞台布景和剧院场景设计，表演设计和环境场景设计，到展览场景设计，电影和媒体场景设计，再到城市环境，空间设计和舞台商业活动。从这一观察出发，会议试图探索作为跨学科艺术现象的舞台设计。在其形式的多样性中，舞台艺术主要不是作为视觉艺术出现的，而是作为一种空间艺术出现的，在这种艺术中，媒介、物体和舞台星座不仅仅是背景或装饰，而是表演过程中的演员和“非人类代理人”（拉图尔）。正是通过这种方式，场景实践塑造了我们的空间体验和感知。这个项目——除了讨论接受美学的问题——旨在通过观察草稿和排练过程、空间和视觉概念、场景工具（模型、视觉故事板、计算机辅助指导等）、各种形式的符号和“场景知识”的问题来反思制作的艺术美学。舞台设计作为一种艺术形式、设计实践和话语是如何运作的，在过程和结果上表达了什么样的知识？项目模块“场景知识和档案”是一个为期一天的研讨会，将于2019年秋季在柏林举行，探讨场景艺术作品的记录和存档模式，特别关注知识生产方式（执行存档，数字化/数字重建和模拟等）以及档案和设计实践之间的不同组合。目的是观察当代舞台设计的跨学科性和持续的多样化，并提出有关文化遗产、流派和媒体特殊性、知识转移、本地与全球实践、国际主义和文化交流的问题。结合“行动中的舞台设计”案例研究，本研究旨在发展一个理解舞台设计作为一种艺术实践和话语的理论框架（舞台设计作为“处置”），并提供分析工具。

This project, entitled »Scenographic Knowledge and the Archive«, is a part of the research project »Scenography: Epistemes and Aesthetic Productiveness in the Contemporary Arts« at LMU Munich, which is funded by the DFG Heisenberg Programme. This larger project adresses concepts and aesthetics of contemporary scenography. As a production and mise-en-scene of space, scenography today appears in many guises: The spectrum ranges from stage sets and theatre scenography, performance design and ›environmental scenography‹ through exhibition scenography, film and media scenography to urban environments, spatial design and staged commercial events. Starting from this observation, the conference seeks to explore scenography as an interdisciplinary arts phenomenon. In its diversity of forms, scenography emerges primarily not as a visual art but rather as a spatial art, in which media, objects and scenographic constellations do not figure as a mere backdrop or décor, rather they are actors and ›non-human agents‹ (Latour) within performative processes. It is in this way that scenographic practices shape our spatial experience and perception. This project – in addition to discussing questions of aesthetics of reception – aims to reflect on artistic aesthetics of production by looking at draft and rehearsal processes, spatial and visual concepts, scenographic tools (models, visual storyboards, computer-aided directing etc.), various forms of notation and the question of ›scenographic knowledge‹. How does scenography operate as an art form, a design practice and discourse, and what kinds of knowledge are expressed on both process and outcome? The project module »Scenographic Knowledge and the Archive«, a one-day symposium to the held in Berlin in Fall 2019, explores modes of documenting and archiving scenographic artwork, and especially focusses on ways of knowledge production (›Performing the archive‹, digitalization/digital reconstruction and simulation etc.) and on varying constellations between archive and design practice. The aim is to observe the interdisciplinarity as well as ongoing diversification of contemporary scenography, and also to raise questions on cultural heritage, genres and media specifity, knowledge transfer, local vs. global practices, internationalism and cultural exchange. Combined with case studies of ›scenographic design in action‹, the research aims to develop a theoretical framework for understanding scenography as an art practice and disourse (scenography as ›dispositif‹) and, in addition, provide tools for analysis.