Sites of Transformation By Louise Ann Wilson 9781350282759 (Paperback)

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Social impact of environmental

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Bloomsbury publishing (uk)

Sites of Transformation : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama : 9781350282759 : 1350282758 : 24 Aug 2023 : In this book practitioner and researcher Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as a distinctive type of applied art and performance practice that seeks tangible, therapeutic, and transformative real-world outcomes. It is what Christopher Baugh calls 'scenography with purpose'. Using case studies drawn from the body of site-specific walking-performances she has created in the UK since 2011, Wilson demonstrates how she uses scenography to emplace challenging, marginalizing or 'missing' life-events into rural landscapes ? creating a site of transformation ? in which participants can reflect upon, re-image and re-imagine their relationship to their circumstances. Her work has addressed terminal illness and bereavement, infertility and childlessness by circumstance, and (im)mobility and memory. These works have

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