2015 Performance Design Commission Meeting Minutes

Prague Quadrennial 2015
18 June 2015 at 14:00


 

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In Attendance:

* - voting delegate ^ - individual member (reduced vote)
 

• Reija called the meeting to order, introduced herself
• Introduction of attendees
• Reija welcomed all and offered thanks to the PQ and Sodja Lotker for the free meeting space to the commission.
• Introduction of the agenda and Rob Eastman-Mullins was chosen as the secretary. The agenda was approved.
• Choosing two election committee members
  • Simona Rybáková and Henk van der Geest were chosen by verbal vote.
• Minutes from the São Paulo meeting are available on the OISTAT website.

Business from old minutes

• none

Performance Design Commission’s Era under Reija

• elected chair in 2006 and started her tenure in 2009
• Reija recapped what Performance Design is under OISTAT
•  “Designing is thinking”
• Four Working Groups under Performance Design Commission
• Space Design Working Group
  • This new working group provides a forum for performance designers interested in spatial thinking . . .
• Brief history of PQ and OISTAT, OISTAT’s organizational structure
• Past Chairs of Performance Design (Reija, first woman in position)
• What has PDC done?: Meetings, Presentations, Forums, Symposiums, Workshops, and PechaKuchas for designers and students who design performances
• Who are we?: OISTAT online gallery (always accepting submissions), a visual representation of who we are rather than just a list of names
• Where have we been?: PQ2011, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Cardiff (WSD2013), São Paulo
• Reija thanks the membership for her time as Chair and the memories

Reports from Working Group Chairs

Costume Design WG (Lise Klitten)

• very active group
• voting for a new Head to take place in Prague
• Moscow exhibition open right now

　　
Sound Design WG (Joe Pino)

• mentorship program launched in February; 6 people applied
• program not just for students
• plans for Taipei

　　
Lighting Design WG
(Henk van der Geest—Heads Nick Moran & Kimmo Karjunen unable to attend)

• want to create a web page to connect students with lighting design professionals
• do we need to think differently about color in the age of LEDs
• lightingschool.eu has a program at PQ; a meeting place for lighting people
• launch of a book, The Art of Light On Stage by Yaron Abulafia (Routledge)

Organizational Report

• WSD 2017 reception, Friday June 19th, 6p, Jalta Boutique Hotel, Mucha Room.

Election of New Commission Chair

1. Candidate Marketa Fantova (USA/Czech Republic) gave her election speech
   • Introduced herself
   • No intention of changing what the Commission is or what it is called.
   • Wants to continue the work being done already before any changes
   • Wants to establish a vision for the Commission
2. Eligible voting delegates from the Centres were identified and ballots were issued (Wan-Jung Wei from Headquarters and Miljana Zekovic from OISTAT EC acted as election officers).
   • There was a dispute regarding Spain having two OISTAT Centres , both with voting rights. It was confirmed by Louis that one vote was to be cast as an Individual Ballot
3. Marketa was elected as the chair of the commission for the years 2015 – 2019 in a unanimous vote.

 Date of next meeting of Commission

• Tentatively set for 14-19 March 2016, USITT; Salt Lake City, UT, USA
• Reija appealed to the attendees for new invitations for PD Commission meetings
• 2017, WSD 2017, Taiwan, Taipei

New Business

• Philippines attendee offered an invitation, November 21-25
• Announcement of Breakfast with Reija at PQ
• Announcement: Serbian Radical Space in Between Disciplines Conference, September 21-23, 2015
• A 15 minute recess was called with discussion of the new Space Design Working Group and Costume Design Group to follow.

 
Reija adjourned the meeting.