Diary

This diary started in 2018 as a way for me to focus on scenography in a hectic academic context. The task was to write something every day, no matter how tired I was. The resulting scenographic poetics is still with me. Work is not lost. August 1, 2023, I decided to write diary posts again, because scenography research needs dedicated awareness, in terms of langue, outreach, and - why not - love. 

Hula hoop

29.10.2018

Day 72. Meetings and chilly air. Trees are getting naked. Exhibition, now hopefully including a big circle, a real one, a hula hoop. For staging critical questions on and with independent dance and theatre groups.

Fake fur

28.10.2018

Day 71. Getting colder here. Fake fur is a la mode. Fakoflage vibrating in city space. Got a fake fur bag in Copenhagen, so tactile, material, and I keep hugging and stroking it. Totally scenographed by stuff and clothes.

Snow

27.10.2018

Day 70. It was snowing in Gothenburg when I got home --snowgraphics! Loved the conference. Really scenographic people. Futures to come. Framing as promise and provocation. Picture: For me to remember, promises, plans.

Glitter

26.10.2018

Day 69. Conference day 2. Shimmer. Glitter. Something in the air: Scenographic vibrations.

Day 68. Session up and running. Felt alive and awake. Really nice attendees. Technology, well. I miss the theatre.

Day 66. Gave a talk on archival activism at the Academy of music and drama here in Gothenburg. Felt useful. Invited students to this course. You can look at scenographic archives!

Train

21.10.2018

Day 64. On train. On way home. When writing this, immediately prictures are produced, place is orientated, worlds are made.

Small World

20.10.2018

Day 63. Attended Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen's doctoral dissertation as a member of the "betygsnämnden": https://www.su.se/english/profiles/kisk0849-1.188535. A lot to read, and worth it. Even if scenography was not the topic and recent theory from that field was not used. I am now even more convinced that expanded scenography is extremely useful for...