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Prague Quadrennial 2015 announces international jury members
As the world´s largest scenography event, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space has a long tradition of competitive exhibition sections judged by professional international jury.
PQ is honored to announce that this year's jury is composed of exceptional directors Kirsten Dehlholm, Antônio Araújo and Dmitry Krymov; outstanding set designers and artists Eloise Kazan, Kamila Polívková, Katrīna Neiburga and Dominic Huber; renowned theoretician Joslin McKinney and respected architect Radivoje Dinulović. As in previous years, PQ 2015´s jury will judge a variety of categories ranging from best exhibition design (which will be awarded by PQ's main award Golden Triga PQ 2015 for the Best Exposition), through promising student talent (Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Promising Student Talent) and innovative approach to performance design (Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Innovative Approach to Performance Design) to expositions that provoke dialog (Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Provoking a Dialogue).
PQ 2015 complete list of international jury members
Kirsten Dehlholm, creator of new concepts, exhibitions, and Artistic Director of Hotel Pro Forma;
Eloise Kazan, award-winning Mexican designer in theatre, dance, opera, interior architecture and film;
Joslin McKinney, originally a theatre designer, is Associate Professor in Scenography at the School of Performance & Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds;
Katrīna Neiburga, one of the most admired Latvian artists of this decade, who works in visual arts and theatre;
Kamila Polívková, award-winning Czech scenographer and director, who works both in the Czech Republic and internationally;
Antônio Araújo, Artistic Director of Teatro da Vertigem, Professor at the Department of Performing Arts of ECA-USP and Golden Medal winner in the category of Best Realization of a Production at PQ 2011;
Dmitry Krymov, Russian director and designer who fuses art, prose, poetry and popular culture, winner of Golden Triga at PQ 2007;
Radivoje Dinulović, Serbian architect, set designer and theorist, author of over one hundred projects in the field of theatrical architecture and set design, author of The Architecture of the Theater of the Twentieth Century (2009);
Dominic Huber, stage designer and theatre maker, co-founder of Blendwerk GMBH, collaboration with Rimini Protokoll, among others.
Please see short biographies of jury members on PQ's new website HERE.
This diverse and energetic group of practitioners and theorists will have the challenging task of visiting the many venues, exhibitions and projects at this year's Quadrennial and bestowing the following awards[1]:
1. Golden Triga PQ 2015 for the Best Exposition
2. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for the Best Exhibition Design
3. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Curatorial Concept of an Exhibition
4. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Performance Design
5. Honorary PQ 2015 Award for Performance Design
6. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Costume Design
7. Honorary PQ 2015 Award for Costume Design
8. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Sound Design
9. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Lighting Design
10. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Use of Media in Performance Design
11. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Performance Architecture
12. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Use of Space for Performance
13. Gold Medal for Total Performance Design
14. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for the Best Exposition in the Student Section
15. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Promising Student Talent
16. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Innovative Approach to Performance Design
17. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Provoking a Dialogue
18. Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Best Performance Design Photo
19. Gold Medal for Best PQ 2015 Publication
20. Special PQ 2015 Jury Awards
The organizers of the Prague Quadrennial will bestow the following additional awards:
PQ 2015 Award for Best Scenography Publication
and
PQ'15 Scenography Mentor (work that has inspired generations of scenographers - continuous high standard of work from one mentor)
The Award ceremony will take place on 22 June 2015 at 8pm at the Archa Theatre in Prague.
[1] According to PQ statute, our prizes are awarded by the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic on the recommendation of the international jury or of the Organizer of the PQ, except for the PQ Children's Audience Award, which is awarded directly by child audiences.
Antonio Araújo
