Expanded scenography from the Global South

Renato Bolelli Rebouças

doi:10.5817/TY2024-1-3

Expanded scenography from the Global South

Vol.27,No.1(2024)

Renato Bolelli Rebouças

https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2024-1-3

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.80025

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Abstract

This article starts from the discussion and reflection on contemporary scenographic production and its expanded practices to present the concept of an expanded scenography from the Global South, whose aesthetic, spatial, and language principles include different sociocultural epistemologies in diverse countries, in its various manifestations. Based on the concept of epistemologies of the South, presented by sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos, I seek to approach a scenographic epistemology from the South, whose perspective is connected with a process of extraction and destruction, the street and unconventional spaces, environment, climate and the ritual, including examples from Latin America, Asia, and African continents.

Keywords:
expanded scenography; Global South; epistemology of the South; destruction; environment; ecology

Pages:
35–56

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