Let’s make stage design, or performative aspects of art
Let’s make stage design, or performative aspects of art

Summary/Abstract: The article explores performative aspects of stage design on the basis of Jon McKenzie’s findings in his Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance (2001). I suggest that theatre design is a self-sustaining discipline, clearly distinguishable from the set designs produced by painters or other fine artists. I will take as an example The White Cube, Poland’s exhibit at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, to show the differences in the meaning of the concept of set design as used by theorists and practitioners.

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