Bringing the backstage onstage
Amidst a global pandemic, Theatrum Mundi organisation is presenting itself to the public. In this video, we are bringing together actual footage from the ground of Chapelle Charbon in Paris, a working site for a series of TM projects and our empty office in London, as well as recorded material from our past and current research activities with a wide professional network and in the format of podcasts, films, workshops, and publications.
We are focusing on a longterm research interest of ours, Choreographing The City, which explores the potential of choreographic thinking and movement practices to offer essential new approaches to critical contemporary issues in city-making based on the notion of care.
As the latest member of the Future Architecture Platform, Theatrum Mundi hopes to further enhance the ability of this European network to generate new transformational ideas that influence future practices in architecture and urban design.
Edited by Lou-Atessa Marcellin
Voiceovers: Adesola Akinleye, John Bingham-Hall, Fani Kostourou
Projects and works featured:
Voi[e,x,s] Chapelle Charbon #1 + #2
Project initiated by Theatrum Mundi & Cie MPDA - Alexandra Lacroix
Creation by Alexandra Lacroix Composition by Marta Gentilucci
Research and documentation by Theatrum Mundi and Evens Foundation
Film by Esmeralda da Costa
Urban Backstages: Glasgow/Marseille research exchange
In partnership with Plateau Urbain, Yes We Camp and Agile City
Supported by British Embassy in France Photography by Elahe Karimnia and Justinien Tribillon
Scoring the City
Project in partnership with Recomposing the City
Supported by TORCH
Featured score by Fani Kostourou
As the City Limits
Project by Adesola Akinleye
As part of a Theatrum Mundi research fellowship
Live Zoom-base performance June 18th 2020
Dancer Helen Kindred
Choreographer Adesola Akinleye
Music Jake Alexander
Voi[e,x,s] artistic residency
Cie MPDA - Alexandra Lacroix, Marta Gentilucci (Ircam),
Ensemble Aedes Théâtre de l’Étoile du Nord
Choreography+Urbanism roundtables
Organised in collaboration with Rennie Tang + Dimitri Szuter
Footage of projects by Pedro Varella and Julie Desprairies
Also featuring John Bingham-Hall, Rennie Tang and Richard Sennett
How does the city move you?
Public symposium organised in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance
Footage of performance by Candoco Dance Company Photography by Stephen Wright
Performing Violence
TM Live podcast featuring Elahe Karimnia and Paul Setúbal
Recorded and edited by Andrea Cetrulo (edited)
The Act of Loitering
Student project by Rebecca Faulkner
A dance in 08 second interludes
Performers Leilah Williams and Fabian Jackson
Part of TM + CSM Performing Architectural Citizenship design studio
Deciphering Bodies
TM Live podcast featuring Blanca Pujals and Ellie Cosgrave
In conversation with Fani Kostourou
Recorded by Andrea Cetrulo
Live Zoom-base performance June 18th 2020
Dancer Helen Kindred
Choreographer Adesola Akinleye
Music Jake Alexander
As the City Limits
Project by Adesola Akinleye
As part of a Theatrum Mundi research fellowship
Royal Academy workshop in September 28th 2019
Filmed, directed and edited by Anton Califano
On Dwelling
Film by Adesola Akinleye for her Theatrum Mundi research fellowship
July 2019
Theatrum Mundi is an independent research centre that links urbanism and the performing arts to expand how the public lives of cities are understood and designed. We think that collaboration with artists can offer city-makers — architects, planners, engineers, and urbanists — critical approaches to the way their crafts shape the cultural, ecological, political and social conditions of the built environment. We convene practitioners and scholars in workshops, seminars, public events, and creative projects. We also publish independently and through other platforms. Established at NYU by Richard Sennett in 2012, Theatrum Mundi now operates through non-profit structures in the UK and France. Our projects and programmes take place internationally in collaboration with a range of partners from cultural institutions to universities and design practices, as well as acting as a bridge for collaboration between the UK and EU post-Brexit.
https://theatrum-mundi.org/
