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The paper examines the evolution of scenography as a multifaceted art form that integrates visual, auditory, and tactile elements, emphasizing the role of the audience and the interaction facilitated by smartphones during performances. It explores the development of scenography education and practice in Serbia, while also reflecting on the impact of significant events like the Prague Quadrennial on the global stage design community.

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Figure 1 Performance U-Bahn Antigone played in Berlin's subway (photographer: Dan Safier)

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‘The physical organization of space imposes a particular logic and produces norms, docility and conduct of everyday life. Urban planning and architecture manifest an ideology of a time and place, they are created according to it and simultaneously sustain it. Travelling from a starting point to a destination establishes a hierarchy where the “in-between” environments are marginalized and overlooked. Nevertheless, these setting’s liminality encompass a theatrical potential. They enhance the fleeting and momentary but also the eternal nature of space and time. It is effectively composed of meaninglessness and estrangement but conduces to the creation of symbols through framing. Intervening in urban spaces creatively, inevitably questions their characteristics and challenges those spaces’ fundamental principles.” [6] Figure 2 Performance U-Bahn Antigone played in Berlin’s subway (photographer: Dan Safier) encompass a theatrical potential. They enhance the fleeting and momentary

Figure 3 Performance U-Bahn Antigone played in Berlin’s subway (photographe: Dan Safier)

Figure 1. PQ 2011 — Intersection (photo: www.pq.cz ) As a complex artistic and curatorial discipline, the practice of scene design obviously moved from theatre “black box” towards interdisciplinary artistic field, becoming an open model for various creative research and practice. It is evident that it currently stands at the crossroads of many areas - performing and visual arts, architecture, installation, site-specific works and various new media. A large number of international art exhibitions and manifestations, formally categorised as one or the other of the above mentioned disciplines, become more and more similar. Prague Quadrennial and Venice Biennials (visual and architectural) show a number of displays and events resembling each other in terms of space articulation, artists’ profiles or means of expression. On the other hand, need for the “white cube” also becomes redundant, opening the possibility for a hybrid artistic environment and creating a complex map of contemporary scene design works.

Figure 3. PQ 2011 — Intersection (photo: Tatjana Dadié Dinulovic); Figure 2: PQ 2011 — Intersection (photo: Tatjana Dadi¢ Dinulovic)

Figure 1. Funeral Scene Rebellion. character. These are the images of the city that cannot be seen daily, whose presence transforms the city into an urban scene. Each of these scenes is rich in scenic character. After a series of unsuccessful protests, which have almost always been violently stopped, there was a reduction of the space of rebellion. The last event that ended the whole situation was a banner placed in the center of the landscape arrangement at the town square, see figure 1, by Prva Arhi Brigada. LIBERTY 28" March 2009 was written on it, it was stuck in the ground and flowers were strewn below.

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Figure 2. The placement of the statue Warrior on a Horse - the audience is identifying with the new cultural and historical landmark. This Scene of Construction is extremely important for Macedonia, peering from inside. It was dominating above the panel and immediately attracted the attention of a random audience. Over time, the crowd spontaneously started to gather in large number and patiently waited to see the art object in its entirety. In theory there is a concept of art reception [8], which defines and explains this phenomenon in space. Actually, in this case it is the so-called reception in culture, which is characterized by the fact that, in addition to offering direct relationship of perception and experience of the ar work and the spectator, historical impact of the art work in particular circumstances should be also considered. Thus, assembled Alexander the Macedonian at one point began to rise in the air, which activated the scene and the audience located all over in order to watch this performance. It is interesting fact that, apart from spectators who were accidentally found here, there were also observers who enriched this scene with props (elements and symbols of the Macedonian nation). After 45 minutes of hanging in the air, grandiose monument was set in its place. Viewers were applauding delighted with that scene, recording it with their electronic devices and in the very end they loudly chanted "Macedonia!"

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Figure 3. Through juxtaposition of edited scenes, the Glorification Scene is created where in a scenic and dramatic way the ideology of the Governmental peak is depicted. As to the first, it is all about the affirmation and unification of citizens regarding the project Skopje 2014. For the first time a spectacle that has brought not only economic but also cultural - artistic expansion held. This event could be experienced as a modern economic production, where it is comprehended that culture and art as a commodity need to be consumed and presented, "sold." "The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes an image" [12], or the celebration of 8th September is just a scene image that can and should only be watched, experienced and affirmed, see figure3. That was the main outcome of this pre-staged grand celebrations, Macedonia has never seen before, thousands of "expensive" scenes that had significant dramaturgically narrative theatrical effect on the audience.

Figure 2. transcordanse #2, performance and performative installation 2010; Kabelwerk, (A) Jirtual data bodies as a multilinear experience, an open socio-choreography. Transitory trajectories, choreographic relations between real bodies and

Figure 1. transcordanse #1, performative installation 2006; Museums Quartier Vienna (A)(a) view of cords structure (b) view of second projection” sounds and images. Furthermore to introduce the experience of sound and images linked to movement. More than an encounter with the resemblance of oneself, the body’s movement finds its interferences and its reflections multiplied and fragmented in the movements of the images and the movements of the sounds, introducing a perceptible presence of the body, through and with the different media used, including the silence and the emptiness like the absence of the active body.

Infant - International Festival, which takes place for twenty years, for his spectacles, exhibitions, presentations and performances in the open space elected a chamber space of Catholic churchyard. Architecture and urban context with a good disposition approach to a square, outstanding historical and environmental context facades, pedestrian urban character and reduced equipment is a true example of the organized city's theatre scene. Set design "stage" is creating by a continuous facade of the Palace of the Vatican on the northeast side, residential and office building facades on the southwest side and the dominant religious building on the southeast. Mary Church, aesthetically, symbolically and with specific ambiance, presents a place to which everything is oriented, because of it spatial and scenic significances. For this reason, a stage and projection screen are usually positioned next to her. Approximately proper rectangular square, near the Cultural Centre of Novi Sad and the spirit of a place which all visitors of this space feel, define the space Catholic churchyard as a clear example of scenic, chamber space. Figure 1. (a) Promotion of wine on the Liberty Square; (b) Cinema City at the Catholic churchyard; (b) Infant - International Festival on the Liberty Square. space feel, define the space Catholic churchyard as a clear example of

Figure 2. Festivals and exhibitions on the Zmaj Jovina Street (a) Days of honey; (b) Street Artist Festival; (b) “Zmajeve de¢je igre”.

Figure 1. Still photograph of designer/performer

Figure 2(a) The Performance Installation; (6) The Art Installation

Figure 1. (a) Ad Infinitum (2011); /photo: David Sigman (b) screen flow of smartphone’s app. 1.2.2. Interactive theater: PSEUDO. From. Platon's’ cave _ to smartphones.

Figure 2. (a) Pseudo. Marcelf Antunez Roca (2012); /(b) Pseudo-Duccio Doccia (2012). photos: Carles Rodriguez .

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Figure 1. John Clang — Being Together; (a) Tokyo and Singapore; (b) London and Singapore Alienation in Clang’s project has resulted in multiplication of space i.e. the creation of a ‘super space’. [10] adius of our life. It collapses the beauty and strangeness around us into one.

Figure 1. Art3fact - an interactive dance performance around the relationship between Human and and Machine, Nantes, France

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Figure 2. Chunky Moves - Mortal Engine - Interactive scenography roles in creating the performance or event that yields the experience. At one end lies absorption, at the other immersion.[7] Individual’s personal experience is essentially a form of behavior, a process in which feeling plays an important role. The logic of emotions determines how an individual deals with both his or her environment and the people in it, while looking for experiences that will give meaning. Experiences occur in a process in which interactions take place in a certain setting, between the individual and other people and this makes experiences, just like culture, intangible. people and this makes experiences, just like culture, intangible.

Table 1. Three levels of interaction Experiences are inherently personal, existing only in the mind of an individual who has been engaged on an emotional, physical, intellectual, or even spiritual level. Thus, no two people can have the same experience, because each experience derives from the interaction between the staged event and the individual’s state of mind. The goal of interactive environment is to create a digitally enhanced social space that invites people to interact with the environment and with each other. circular flow of information exchange interaction exists. Based on the

Figure 1. (a) Churchill mochican; (b) Banksy cover

Figure 3. Scenic image of Sankt Peterburg 2.2. Case study 2: Urban guerilla as art

Figure 4. (a) Green installation as scenography; (b) Green scenography in a wider context ardener and created 'green scenographies' with the same motive.

Figure 5. (a) Motor-buckets dropping paint ; (b) Painting reality The activities that takes place in it, aided by its actors and accidental passers- Guerilla Creative Collective ‘Kut’ is a group of artists from Latvia, and in August 2012 they brought unexpected weather conditions to the Streets of Riga. Is this art or attack on public space?

Figure 6. Normal image of the streets of Riga -shattered Apart from normal reactions such as surprise and unease, most of the Analysing the proposed case studies, we may conclude that activism as a form of unruly behaviour must not necessarily be considered wither vandalism and guerilla initiatives. The differences between them are scarce, because vandalism and guerilla have practically no differences. The example of the Russian group Viona clearly implies that their initiative borders on vandalism and urban guerilla. This example might be a guerilla action, but the message it sends to the authorities and the means in which it was performed is certainly vandalism.

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The institution developed scientific approaches to the organization of work where some simple repetitive operations, like the cutting of materials with a chisel and a hammer, were studied in great detail. And even though the origin of these techniques, of this experiment, lies in Tay/lorism and the American division of labor, their end game was quite different. While Taylorism performed as a device whose primary goal was to reduce the cost of production with little or no interest in the worker’s wellbeing, further exploiting the working class, the socialist idea, although rooted in the notion of discipline, control, repetition and mobilization, was to set the worker (as well as the entire Russian population) free from the enslavement of capital, fatigue of both body and soul, ultimately increasing their overall efficiency. Another diversity in these two approaches, possibly the most important one, lies in the fact that Gastev’s curiosity was deeply scientific yes but above all it was essentially artistic, whilst Taylor's was merely utilitarian. [8] Figure 1. (a) Gastev’s Studio, Central Institute of Labor; (b) Academy of Work: Gastev’s Studio, WYSPA Alternativa 2012, Gdansk; designed by Monika Ponjavic (PartizanPublik) and Arne Hendriks (photo by Arne Hendriks) diversity in these two approaches, possibly the most important one, lies in the

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Figure 2. (a) Hammering Machine, designed by Gastev; (b) reconstructed Hammering Machine designed by Monika Ponjavic and Arne Hendriks (on photograph: Monika Ponjavic; photo by Jolan van der Wiel, Alternativa 2012, Gdansk) should be mechanized.[13] To achieve this, every citizen should master the two fundamental aspects of the work performance — “the stroke and the thrust’ (Bedian and Phillips, 30). He believed that this process of learning, adopting the mechanized movement, adjusting your body to the machine, and not vice versa, should begin at the early age, if possible in childhood.[14] Gastev was searching for a certain core movements that would train the worker under simulated factory conditions (see Figure 2). The program of these movements was suppose to be highly economical in the sense that it should be precise, comprehensive and that it would require a minimum amount of time (for the worker) to learn it.[15] In 1922, Nikolai A. Bernstein, Russian neurophysiologist, was invited to join IVT,along with other researches, and help with the cause. Bernstein’s main focuses of study were: cutting metal with the chisel and the stroke of a miner armed with a heavy hammer. He used cyclographic techniques (see Figure 3) to track the human movement and his research showed that most movements, like hitting a chisel with a hammer, are composed of smaller movements and that, if altered, they would affect the movement as a whole. Furthermore, in the analysis of a miner’s stroke he discovered that miners use two strategies in the working process: the abductive stroke, where the arm is moved in a lateral direction; and the vertical stroke, where the arm is moved in a forward and upward direction. The aim of the biomechanical analysis was to identify the strategy that would help minimizing muscle energy consumption whilst increasing the overall productivity. [16]

Figure 4.Biomechanics of a Stroke, Central Institute of Labor ; Figure 5.Workers performing in their costumes, CIL Figure 3. Time and Motion Studies conducted by Nikolai A. Bernisteinand performed by Alexei Gastev (on the photograph) The Stroke and the Thrustexercise, Central Institute of Labor

paper, the first and the hardest one. It stands for measure. And everything around us, the space we move in, houses we live in, streets that we walk...all of it is man made. And all of it is made in human proportions. It is a module, a trace, a formula that sets you free, it separates the perceptual screen from the real world and what is striking about it is “that while it is most effective as a batch of freedom, it is extremely restrictive in its actual exercise of freedom” (Krauss, 1986: 9). Figure 6. (a) Gastev’s Studio at Central Institute of Labor/detail, the grid; (b) Gastev’s studio at WYSPA, Alternativa 2012, Gdansk; design by: Monika Ponjavic (PartizanPublik) and Arne Hendriks; (photo by Monika Ponjavic) patch of freedom, it is extremely restrictive in its actual exercise of freedom”

Gastevs work emboales all three aspects of numan conaition for it started as work but it was meant to be a /abor that within time became activity It was labor in a sense that it was supposed to become an integral part of everyday life where the idea was that if we incorporate labor, order and discipline in a daily activity human psyche would be altered - become the hammer and you become free(see Figure7).It was work, first of all because i revolved around the tool. There was always an object at play that was left behind once the repetitive sequence was finished. And in this sense it had a beginning and an end. However, if we are to talk about the activity part of this story we have to go back where | started, back to the outset that marked this single idea because what started as a task of remodeling the body, the psyche and the state of Russian society in general somehow gradually transversed from scientific model of bodily engineering into some sort of non - utilitarian perfection. This work, this ongoing social experiment that has been performed and conducted at the Central institute of Labor was not a secretive act, to say the least. However, despite the fact that during the active work of the institute its primary objective was (supposedly) driven by the idea o' increasing overall efficiency and body engineering, rooted in Tayorism, which, by definition, aims to produce, oddly, or on the other hand, quite expected, depending on how you look at it, they never produced anything. This, of course, raises all kinds of different questions but the obvious, the most important one is simply why? Why have they never produced anything material or tangible? The answer to this question is also rather simple - it was never about the production. Or at least not in the same fashion Taylor or Ford were producing. Quite the opposite, he was producing a way to live life and in order to achieve that the body needs to be thought how to think and rely not on its anatomy but upon the possibilities the body can achieve utilizing the movement. Figure 7.(a) Hammering Man, Central Institute of Labor(b) the notion of 8 hour shift, Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang were producing. Quite the opposite, he was producing a way to live life and in

In 1921 Gastev wrote an article where he defined the goals of LIMIT. explaining how machinism provides a new environment for the developmeni of the human where the task is, in fact, to foster certain reflexes without the presence of external stimuli (Vaingurt, 222). Biomechanics, being a unique method of body engineering falls directly into this category. Using Biomechanics, Gastevdidn’t try to solve the problem of production (or not only the problem of production) but the problem of culture and according to Mauss “bodily techniques are learned and habitual, and as such they are cultural constructs” (qtd. in Vaingurt, 222). Gastev imagined scientific organization o: labor as a spatial arrangement that leads to economy of gestures: “The movement of a working human is a combination of lines, points, angles, and weights, all working with a certain tolerance, with habitual efficiency” (Gastev. qtd. in Vaingurt, 223). His hybrid Biomechanical man, tempered virtua stronghold of culture, a mechanism of order and a symbol of modernist aesthetics is therefor a construct of art rather than reality (see Figure 8). Figure 8.(a) Gastev’s Studio (the emphasis in the room should be on the existing, black Hammering Puppet); (b) Modulor by Le Corbusier; (c) Hammering Puppet re-construction for Academy of Work, drawing by Monika Ponjavic f CONCLUSION

Figure 1. The Oxygenator, photography by Konrad Pustota

Figure 2. The Oxygenator, photography b' Joanna Rajkowska Figure 3. The Oxygenator, photography by Joanna Rajkowska

Figure 4. The Oxygenator, photography by Joanna Rajkowska Figure 5. The Oxygenator, photography by Joanna Rajkowska Figure 6. The Oxygenator, photography by Joanna Rajkowska

SCENE RE-WRITING: ENCOUNTERING TITO’S SPACE There are just a few purpose-built museums in this region. One of them is the Museum May 25" that belongs to complex of Museum of Yugoslav History together with the House of Flowers and the O/d Museum. It is designed by the architect Mika Jankovic, built in 1962™ as a gift from the City of Belgrade to Tito and on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. It is also one of the rare true memories to Tito, old regime, especially comparing it to Banjaluka and Bosnia where devastation and erasure was _ radical. Therefore | challenged myself to exhibit my work here.

4.1.2. IDEOLOGY : BOSNA

Fig.4: Screenshot for mobile phone developed in FEUP (jun.2011) Example of color space: interaction between RGB and CMYK

Fig.5: Experience: color wheel chart iluminated by RGB spotlights at Light laboratory in ESMAE (Nov.2010) assessment and show the results still awaiting confirmation. This work will be

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One of the examples for interesting variation about anarchitecture in the field of theater, is Jelly Fish in London, created by Martin Kaltwasser and Folke Kobberling. The first in the world performance space made from wastes and donated recycled materials, such as: reused shipping pallets, old doors, recycled nails, old furniture and donated wood scarps. “Building” is promoting idea of sustainable construction — through itself and also ecological subject of performed pieces. This architecture of improvisation (there was no particular plan or project) reminds a dramatic improvisation in theaters or films — trial and errors method. Only one part of Jelly Fish is a standard one — steel skeleton, which is a constructive frame. Except that, everything else is improvised- MDF, pallets, plywood. What is important, Jelly Fish provides all safety standards, provision of construction and fire. Jelly Fish is a total theater. Not only architects, but also directors, dramatists and stage designer, were engaged to suggest the final appearance. Thanks to that theater is already made scenery and set design. Builders were: students, inhabitants and employees from neighbourhood, who became after an audience of theater they build. In total, 81 volunteers, using 800 pallets, 750m2 plywood and working for 4200 hours, built for free ecological theater in anarchitecture method. “We're a completely open stage, trying to prove that local people can create their own public projects.(...) You can do it, too, without developers, quangos, huge professional teams — and with anyone taking part." — Bryan Savery from Red Room Theater in London. [6]

3.2. Theater of Fly by Assemble Figure 2. main facade of theater

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Other inspiring project of temporally theater was formed 2 years ago in London on the occasion of Chichester Festival. Building was made from re- usable and recyclable materials donated in-kind, such as: “waterproof plastic exterior, exposed ropes, pulleys, spotlights and scaffolding platforms’. Created in close collaboration of architects, directors and volunteers space reveals and plays with various techniques of theatre- making. Theater form was based on the fly tower- used to hoisting and lowering set design during the performance. Building, thanks to specific materials, shows, normally hidden from view mechanisms creating differential form, capable to open for outdoor performances, provides the surrounding of a beautiful park. “Detailed with tall, structural seams that fix back to the scaffolding sub-frame with cable ties, this material is almost silent in wind and rain and it contributes to quiet exterior structure.” [7] Figure 3. (a) main facade in night, (b) interior

Figure 4. (a) spot during the day, (b) performance in the evening

Present tenants are very spontaneous with all the problems relatec with old magazines, they use. It looks like it additional propels energy anc creativity in organization of space. Only last year in magazine nr 10 took place over a 30 music shows, theater performances, exhibitions with participation o artist from Poland, Belarus, Russia, France, England and Italy — all of them ir one spirit of independence culture. Place is open for everybody on all possible levels. Even now the spot is unique but it needs a basis and certainty tc realize permanent projects. Figure 6. views

Nowadays, the buildings are occupied by differently activities, without any idea, and they are slowly getting destroyed. Deficiency of master plan caused a strong defragmentation of this part of city, which is really important for cultural identity of town. Bialystok is an important center on theater map of Poland (Theater Academy with puppet theater specialization, many independent theaters: Wierszalin, Doomsday, Hotel Malabar). Unique location of Bialystok (eastern part of Poland) causes that it’s a great platform for dialog between neighboring countries: Belarus, Ukraine and _ Lithuania. Unfortunately, there isn't any suitable scene to organize so important multi- cultural meetings on a great scale and for all those reasons Colt Island matches.

Materials used are: brick (from other building structures), industrial lass, rails elements and typical industrial polycarbonate.

Figure 1: Peter Moore: photography of the original performance Man walking down the side of building from 1970.

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