Cosmopoiesis, or: making worlds. Notes on the radical model worlds of Anna Viebrock

Brejzek, T; Wallen, L

Cosmopoiesis, or: making worlds. Notes on the radical model worlds of Anna Viebrock

Brejzek, T Wallen, L

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Theatre and Performance Design, 2018, 4 (1-2), pp. 7 - 22
Issue Date:: 2018-04-03

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dc.contributor.author	Brejzek, T	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wallen, L https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4856-9864	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-04-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Theatre and Performance Design, 2018, 4 (1-2), pp. 7 - 22	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2332-2551	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/130043
dc.description.abstract	© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article discusses the cosmopoietic or world-making capacity of scenographic models in relation to German scenographer Anna Viebrock’s selected stage set exhibitions (Avignon, 2010; Basel, 2011) and her recent collaborative installation project at Venice’s Prada Foundation (2017). It is argued that Viebrock’s architectural stage sets fulfil the central characteristics of models, namely a reduction in complexity and a selective omission or rendering of detail, as well as presenting the material realization of a concept or idea. This article posits that in her exhibitions, Viebrock uses scale to immerse the viewer into two very different model worlds: the controlled and seemingly controllable world of the small-scale and the enterable architecture of the 1:1 scale. The authors conclude that Viebrock’s models and stage sets present ‘weak scenographies’ (see Solà-Morales’ notion of a ‘weak architecture’) in their anti-monumental approach and aesthetics and the subsequent radical exposure of the postmodern subject as unhoused in architecture.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Theatre and Performance Design	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/23322551.2018.1466947	en_US
dc.title	Cosmopoiesis, or: making worlds. Notes on the radical model worlds of Anna Viebrock	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article discusses the cosmopoietic or world-making capacity of scenographic models in relation to German scenographer Anna Viebrock’s selected stage set exhibitions (Avignon, 2010; Basel, 2011) and her recent collaborative installation project at Venice’s Prada Foundation (2017). It is argued that Viebrock’s architectural stage sets fulfil the central characteristics of models, namely a reduction in complexity and a selective omission or rendering of detail, as well as presenting the material realization of a concept or idea. This article posits that in her exhibitions, Viebrock uses scale to immerse the viewer into two very different model worlds: the controlled and seemingly controllable world of the small-scale and the enterable architecture of the 1:1 scale. The authors conclude that Viebrock’s models and stage sets present ‘weak scenographies’ (see Solà-Morales’ notion of a ‘weak architecture’) in their anti-monumental approach and aesthetics and the subsequent radical exposure of the postmodern subject as unhoused in architecture.

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