From ‘Out-of-sight’ to Centre-stage

Valiente, G; Oriol, JV; Velasco, AS

From ‘Out-of-sight’ to Centre-stage

Valiente, G

Oriol, JV Velasco, AS

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Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Theatre and Performance Design, 2024, 10, (3), pp. 171-182
Issue Date:: 2024-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Valiente, G https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0580-078X
dc.contributor.author	Oriol, JV
dc.contributor.author	Velasco, AS
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-29T03:16:50Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-29T03:16:50Z
dc.date.issued	2024-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Theatre and Performance Design, 2024, 10, (3), pp. 171-182
dc.identifier.issn	2332-2551
dc.identifier.issn	2332-2578
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/187098
dc.description.abstract	GRANDEZA STUDIO is a collective of architects and artists whose work hybridizes methodologies and techniques that entangle research with critical spatial practices, writing, performance, design, filmmaking and pedagogy. Central to GRANDEZA STUDIO’s work (and subject of inquiry in this essay) is the notion of ‘out-of-sightedness’. With this term, we refer to a series of events, spaces, transformations, agents and territories whose frequent lack of protagonism within today’s debates around planetary challenges is symptomatic of the many blind spots fostered by hegemonic epistemologies. We argue here that it is those ‘out-of-sight’ conditions that most urgently require attention. Enquiring about today’s forms of ‘out of sightedness’ invites us to approach–and hopefully address–a dominant (while not totalised) crisis of political imagination that affects the capacity of visual and spatial practitioners, among others, to participate in the development of liveable planetary futures. To further deepen the notion of visibility (or lack thereof) in the context of staging climates, this visual essay identifies and unpacks–accompanied by a series of key images produced by GRANDEZA STUDIO between 2019 and 2023–four intertwined and complementary forms of ‘out-of-sightedness’ that play a central role within their practice.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartof	Theatre and Performance Design
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/23322551.2024.2402593
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	1902 Film, Television and Digital Media, 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing, 1905 Visual Arts and Crafts
dc.subject.classification	3604 Performing arts
dc.subject.classification	3605 Screen and digital media
dc.title	From ‘Out-of-sight’ to Centre-stage
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	10
utslib.for	1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
utslib.for	1905 Visual Arts and Crafts
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/New Faculty
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/New Faculty/School of Architecture
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dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.date.updated	2025-04-29T03:16:47Z
pubs.issue	3
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	10
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GRANDEZA STUDIO is a collective of architects and artists whose work hybridizes methodologies and techniques that entangle research with critical spatial practices, writing, performance, design, filmmaking and pedagogy. Central to GRANDEZA STUDIO’s work (and subject of inquiry in this essay) is the notion of ‘out-of-sightedness’. With this term, we refer to a series of events, spaces, transformations, agents and territories whose frequent lack of protagonism within today’s debates around planetary challenges is symptomatic of the many blind spots fostered by hegemonic epistemologies. We argue here that it is those ‘out-of-sight’ conditions that most urgently require attention. Enquiring about today’s forms of ‘out of sightedness’ invites us to approach–and hopefully address–a dominant (while not totalised) crisis of political imagination that affects the capacity of visual and spatial practitioners, among others, to participate in the development of liveable planetary futures. To further deepen the notion of visibility (or lack thereof) in the context of staging climates, this visual essay identifies and unpacks–accompanied by a series of key images produced by GRANDEZA STUDIO between 2019 and 2023–four intertwined and complementary forms of ‘out-of-sightedness’ that play a central role within their practice.

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