The Model as Performance

Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture

Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen, Joslin McKinney, Scott Palmer, Stephen A. Di Benedetto, Joslin McKinney, Scott Palmer, Stephen A. Di Benedetto

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781350095908
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474271400
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Architecture Design

The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition.

Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality, that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment.

The Model as Performance was shortlisted for the best Performance Design & Scenography Publication Award at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) 2019.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• 1 The Model as Object and Idea
• 2 Staging Politics and Knowledge through the Model
• 3 Performing Architecture: Edward Gordon Craig and the Model Stage
• 4 Staging the Future: The Model as Performance of Inhabitation
• 5 Performing the Past: The Full-Scale Model and Mock Up
• 6 Staging the White Cube: The Autonomous Model as a Performance of Space
• Notes
• References
• About the Authors
• Index