REVALUING THEATRICAL HERITAGE - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

REVALUING THEATRICAL HERITAGE - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

An international conference held by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University in association with Artesis University College with support from Stad Kortrijk and the FWO-Vlaanderen, Kortrijk (Belgium), 22-23 January 2013

 

Despite eye-opening discoveries, exhibitions and performances, many valuable holdings of theatrical heritage continue to linger in oblivion. A stunning exemplar is the recently unearthed ‘Dubosq collection’ at the Schouwburg Kortrijk: a near-complete ensemble of drops, flats and props from the Belle Époque. How do such time capsules affect our understanding and appreciation of historical staging practices? Under which conditions should these vulnerable, excessively rare artifacts be preserved and manipulated? And which challenges and opportunities arise from their reuse on the modern stage?

 

REVALUING THEATRICAL HERITAGE aims to address these and related issues from a broader perspective. Scholars, performers, directors, conservators and administrators will share experiences and results of recent projects and work in progress. There will be sessions dedicated to novel methods, historically informed productions of opera, archives, endangered and restored architecture, scenography, and puppetry.

 

This conference will host the modern world premiere of Johann Christian Bach's Artaserse (1760) performed by the Antwerp Conservatoire in an authentic Comédie-Française set (1913) restored by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

  

Visit the website for the symposium organised by prof. Bruno Forment.

http://www.theatricalheritage.be

 

 

Thomas Weynants
www.visual-media.eu

Online Media Archaeology
www.media-museum.eu

Photographer - Collector - Fantasmagore
* Member of "The Magic Lantern Society of Great-Britain"
* Member of "The Ephemera Society of Great-Britain"

Google Group Media Archaeology:
Early Visual & Time-Based Media Techniques
http://groups.google..com/group/visual-media

- Pre-Cinema: Optical Toys, Magic Lanterns, etc
- Phantasmagoria (Death in pre-film)
- Conjuring Arts, Physique Amusante & Illusions
- 19th.Century Photography
- Early Film & Animation Film
- Mechanical Television before 1935
- Fairground & Circus Arts
- Mechanical Theatre & Theatrum Mundi