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Making Space for Festival, 1400-1700. Interactions of Architecture and Performance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Festivals
Venice (Palazzo Pesaro Papafava), Italy
21-24 March 2013
A joint conference organized by ESF-PALATIUM and the Society for European Festivals Research.
The conference will consider how princely and civic architecture of the period, together with ephemeral architecture constructed for the occasion, have contributed to the implied meaning of a diverse series of festivals across Europe between approximately 1400 and 1700. Scholars have interpreted festivals as temporarily transformative, through visual and dramatic agency, of the political and social significance of great houses and palaces. They have argued further that perceptions of a city’s built environment and princely houses were subject to idealising transformation as a result of ephemeral structures and performed actions during the occasion itself, and subsequently by means of festival books and other records.
Papers may address one or more of the following overlapping themes:
- Festival Interventions in the Princely and Noble Environment
- Ephemeral Architecture and the Meaning of Festival
- Transformed Courts and Cities: the Festival in Performance
- Festival Space: Looking Before, Then and After
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