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Reflection as Spatial Practice

Switzerland’s political background as a direct demo-cracy requires a multifaceted process of political negotiation. The Reflection as Spatial Practice space laboratory reacts to this substructure and is an invitation to transfer stage design practice as a political practice. The aim of our space laboratory at the Faculty of Stage Design (Department of Performing Arts and Film, Zürich University of the Arts) is to enable perspectives to be performed in different ways. The students of the Faculty of Stage Design offer the possibility to experiment in the field of articulation and the negotiation of reflections, and not only through words. Based on shared experiences (for example, a visit to a public space in Prague or another current topic), students, visitors and spontaneous participants develop spatial installations in groups. Different models pertaining to the negotiation of reflections through spatial practice can be tried out in collectively determined settings. These will be presented and discussed during the Prague Quadrennial in the form of small exhibitions and rounds of talks in the space laboratory itself. If any of the rules within the collectively determined setting call for site-specific work, we will leave the space laboratory to visit the sites, wherever they are in the area.