{"product_id":"sites-of-transformation-louise-ann-wilson-9781350282759","title":"Sites of Transformation: Applied and Socially Engaged Scenography in Rural Landscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design \u0026amp; Scenography 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing 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 \u003ci\u003esite of transformation\u003c\/i\u003e - 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 been created on mountains, in caves, along coastlines and over beaches. Each case-study is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects and outcomes of the performance being discussed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book reveals Wilson's creative methodology, her application of three distinct strands of transdisciplinary research into the site\/landscape, the subject\/life-event, and with the people\/participants affected by it. She explains the 7 'scenographic' principles she has developed, and which apply theories and aesthetics relating to land\/scape art and walking and performance practices from Early Romanticism to the present day. They are underpinned by the concept of the feminine 'material' sublime, and informed by the attentive, autotopographic, therapeutic and highly scenographic use of walking and landscape found in the work of Dorothy Wordsworth and her female contemporaries. Case studies include \u003ci\u003eFissure \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), \u003ci\u003eGhost Bird\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eWarnscale\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eMulliontide\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eDorothy's Room \u003c\/i\u003e(2018) and \u003ci\u003eWomen's Walks to Remember: 'With memory I was there' \u003c\/i\u003e (2018-2019).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise Ann Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350282758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350282759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Louise Ann Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072465203455,"sku":"9781350282759","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc0c66dc-61b2-4f40-bddf-225358efbb2d.jpg?v=1685442131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sites-of-transformation-louise-ann-wilson-9781350282759","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}