TOWARDS A SCENOGRAPHY OF THE SELF
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Cezara-Maria Gurau
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Wednesday, 21st of February 2024
23:23
52 degrees, 5 minutes, 51 seconds North;
5 degrees, 6 minutes, 19 seconds East.
The night has settled.
The sky is clear.
The city is quiet.
Mind flows through fingers.
I am here. And, now, you are here as well, but on the other side.
And while we are far away from each other, I hope distance will bring us closer.
And as you continue to read, I welcome you in the in-between.
What is the last dream you had that you can remember? Is there a dream you can never forget?
For 3 years, I had a recurring dream.
There was a house with the entrance on the back. A spiral staircase would lead to a massive old wooden door. Sometimes, it would open by itself. Other times, specific people would welcome me inside. Only on certain occasions I would open it myself. Once the way would be revealed, before me, there was always a very long, red corridor.
Transitioning is always about taking the time and observing the movement; afterward, it is about noticing how you become it, how it transforms you.
When I would least expect it, there was the door to the other side. From there, I could travel anywhere.
After a while something changed. I was left only with its memory.
For the second time, in the past 5 years, I decided to move away from the familiar, and root elsewhere. Little did I know back then, how much the spaces that we are in shape us. They offer a glimpse into ourselves.
During the time I was beginning again, I would frequently close my eyes, and after a while, an endless underground tunnel would appear behind my eyelids.
In the far distance, a light.
Try as I might to reach it, it turned out to be impossible. The path would curve every time, forming a spiral.
"Maybe you should stay more in the liminal", said Henny Dörr during a research presentation.
And I did.
Once the metaphor of this space was consciously and subconsciously embodied, I came closer to understanding the grounds of this (re)search:
encountering spaces, facing oneself, and meeting the other.
Searching for a Soul of Things
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Maria Komarova
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Through exploring different ways of relating to things, surprising connections appear. The research catalogue
"Searching for a Soul of Things" introduces strategies for rethinking the materiality of everyday objects and revealing the multiplicity of narratives behind them. It tends to verify theoretical concepts from the field of new materialism and object-oriented ontology in the context of scenographical practice. The research analyzes practical experiments and transforms them into an interactive 2D environment.
Through exploring different ways of relating to things, surprising connections appear. The research catalogue "Searching for a Soul of Things" introduces strategies for rethinking the materiality of everyday objects and revealing the multiplicity of narratives behind them. It tends to verify theoretical concepts from the field of new materialism and object-oriented ontology in the context of scenographical practice. The research analyzes practical experiments and transforms them into an interactive 2D environment.open exposition comments (0)