Louise Ann Wilson is a transdisciplinary scenographer, performance maker and researcher. She is the Artistic Director of the Louise Ann Wilson Company and a visiting lecturer at several UK universities.

In Sites of Transformation artist-scholar Louise Ann Wilson introduces us to the innovative concept and practice of socially engaged and applied scenography, walking us through her scenographic-led work. In a highly original triangulation of place (from mountains, to beaches, to caves), challenging life-event (from bereavement, to involuntary childlessness, to immobility), and participant, Wilson reveals the ways in which ‘sited’ scenography can foster powerful and transformative acts of re-imaging and reimagining. This scenography with purpose is rigorously thoughtful and creative, emplacing hope in difficult times.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Setting the Scene: Sites of Transformation1 Scenography with Purpose – Seven Scenographic Principles2 Walking-Performance – Emplacing a Life-Event: Fissure3 Creating A Scene – Centring the Visual: Ghost Bird4 Site and Materials – Centring the Metaphor: The Gathering5 Mapping-Walks – Centring the Subject: Warnscale6 Giving a Voice – Centring the Community: Mulliontide7 Applied Scenography – Multiple Applications: Dorothy’s Room and Women’s Walks to RememberAppendices ReferencesIndex

Louise Ann Wilson is a transdisciplinary scenographer, performance maker and researcher. She is the Artistic Director of the Louise Ann Wilson Company and a visiting lecturer at several UK universities.

In Sites of Transformation artist-scholar Louise Ann Wilson introduces us to the innovative concept and practice of socially engaged and applied scenography, walking us through her scenographic-led work. In a highly original triangulation of place (from mountains, to beaches, to caves), challenging life-event (from bereavement, to involuntary childlessness, to immobility), and participant, Wilson reveals the ways in which ‘sited’ scenography can foster powerful and transformative acts of re-imaging and reimagining. This scenography with purpose is rigorously thoughtful and creative, emplacing hope in difficult times.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Setting the Scene: Sites of Transformation1 Scenography with Purpose – Seven Scenographic Principles2 Walking-Performance – Emplacing a Life-Event: Fissure3 Creating A Scene – Centring the Visual: Ghost Bird4 Site and Materials – Centring the Metaphor: The Gathering5 Mapping-Walks – Centring the Subject: Warnscale6 Giving a Voice – Centring the Community: Mulliontide7 Applied Scenography – Multiple Applications: Dorothy’s Room and Women’s Walks to RememberAppendices ReferencesIndex

Louise Ann Wilson is a transdisciplinary scenographer, performance maker and researcher. She is the Artistic Director of the Louise Ann Wilson Company and a visiting lecturer at several UK universities.

In Sites of Transformation artist-scholar Louise Ann Wilson introduces us to the innovative concept and practice of socially engaged and applied scenography, walking us through her scenographic-led work. In a highly original triangulation of place (from mountains, to beaches, to caves), challenging life-event (from bereavement, to involuntary childlessness, to immobility), and participant, Wilson reveals the ways in which ‘sited’ scenography can foster powerful and transformative acts of re-imaging and reimagining. This scenography with purpose is rigorously thoughtful and creative, emplacing hope in difficult times.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Setting the Scene: Sites of Transformation1 Scenography with Purpose – Seven Scenographic Principles2 Walking-Performance – Emplacing a Life-Event: Fissure3 Creating A Scene – Centring the Visual: Ghost Bird4 Site and Materials – Centring the Metaphor: The Gathering5 Mapping-Walks – Centring the Subject: Warnscale6 Giving a Voice – Centring the Community: Mulliontide7 Applied Scenography – Multiple Applications: Dorothy’s Room and Women’s Walks to RememberAppendices ReferencesIndex