International Conference Lumière Matière
The international conference, Lumière Matière, has been promoted by the research group Lumière de Spectacle (LdS, part of the CEAC Laboratoire at the University of Lille 3), jointly directed by Véronique Perruchon and Cristina Grazioli. Held in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of Theatre and Opera and the University of Padua, the conference sets out to stimulate thinking on the theme of “light as matter”, in its interaction with the various constituent parts of theatre – body, colour, movement, text, sound, space and time – and in its specifically theatrical dimension. Through the exploration of themes such as the dramaturgy of light and its plasticity, one of the aims is to offer an opportunity to describe the means require to develop a discourse in light on stage and to grasp its peculiarities in the context of stage coefficients. Starting from the performing arts, the studies on light will also take in all possible affinities in the fields of physics, the visual arts and aesthetics.
The conference will be held in two stages at different venues: the University of Lille 3 (7-8 November 2019) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (16-17 January 2020).