Prague Quadrennial 2019

  • Jordan Smith

At the begging of 2019, I was chosen alongside eight others to represent students throughout the country at Prague Quadrennial 2019. Working with the Society of British Theatre Designers we started this journey by meeting with the eight other students begin to go through the brief which had been set by PQ. We had to design and create an exhibition that represented the future for performance design students. The idea we revolved around was that the future is in our hands and we can do with it as we please. So, we created a playground which people can come in and create their own space.

”The Future Utopias Imaginarium process began in a collaborative workshop with a group of over thirty student and early-career designers and performance makers. Over the last five months, a core team of nine artists of various backgrounds from Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Birmingham, and London have constructed a shifting performance space for PQ19.”“The audience was invited to observe and interact with a team of “Future Makers” in a circular space that sat between a factory and a game show. An endlessly recurring process to build a future utopia is activated by chance and imagination, and overseen by a mysterious authority figure.”