2025: PERFORMANCE & SPACE II. PROCEEDINGS OF THE PERFORMING SPACE 2024 CONFERENCE
Published: 2025-10-04
Performing Space is a research project that explores the relationship between performance and the built environment, taking into account the different perspectives of disciplines that study human activity and space, such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, economics, law, philosophy, sociology, or theatre studies.
The first objective we set for Performing Space was to establish a platform for presenting, experimenting with and debating studies from different disciplines on performance and its environment. In other words, we wanted to generate an international network to discuss and disseminate the performative vision of space, which is essential for understanding and developing our environment. We chose to hold an international conference containing papers based on artistic or academic research, as well as workshops in which to experiment with different research techniques relating to the rapport between space and performance. The first conference was held in Nafplio, Greece, in 2022, as part of Pablo Berzal Cruz's postdoctoral research project between the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the University of the Peloponnese. The proceedings presented here are the result of the third edition of the event, Performing Space 2024.
The third edition of the Performing Space project, in the form of the Performing Space 2024 Conference and Workshops, took place in Nafplio, Greece, from 3 to 6 July 2024. Organised by the University of the Peloponnese's Departments of Theatre Studies, and Performing and Digital Arts, together with the Polytechnic University of Madrid, this edition was hosted by the University of the Peloponnese and brought together nearly 70 presentations and 40 workshop participants from over 20 countries. The number of participants practically doubled compared to the previous edition, reflecting the growing international and interdisciplinary interest in this project.
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Articles
Performing Space 2024 - Introduction
Pablo Berzal Cruz, Athena Stourna, Tyrone Grima, Alba Balmaseda Domínguez
Architecture Plays!
New Spatial Narratives of Novi Sad in Architectural Documentaries
Dragana Konstantinović
Exploring Collective Memory and Trauma through a Site Specific Performance in Lazaretta
Eleni Tsantali, Sofia Almpani, Georgia-Konstantina Atzampou
Four Larks’ Katabasis: Imagining Ancient Mystery Rites as Promenade Opera in Los Angeles
Mat Diafos Sweeney, Sebastian Peters-Lazaro
Pavillon Relancé: Re-Tracing Leisure Modalities – Inhabiting the Archive
Stavros Alifragkis, Kalliopi Chourmouziadou
Performative Spaces of the Everyday
José Vela Castillo, Óscar Valero Sáez, Elena Pérez Garrigues, Juan Cabello Arribas
Performing Water: Experiments at the Intersection of Bodies, Cities, and Water
Alba Balmaseda Domínguez
Extending the Performing Space through Virtual Reality
Katerina El Raheb, Anastasios Theodoropoulos
