the audience:
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> is a series of experiments and expositions premiering in various venues and contexts
> is more or less connected to the medium of performance and poses the audience as a question
> considers the creation, or exposure, of a collectivity; a receptive, attentive many
Tuomas Laitinen is a doctoral candidate at Tutke, the Performing Arts Research Center of Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. The subject of his doctoral research is the audience: what is the audience? Why is the audience? How to be an audience?
In the Research Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019 Tuomas will engage in two projects:
1) creating a series of phenomenological etudes that focus on the phenomenon of audiencing.
2) observing the construction and opening of the Research Pavilion as a durational performance.
This is a workspace for the creation of some scores for the domestic space, in the context of a working group preparing a performance called "patch the sky with 5 colored stones".
Tästä löytyy väitöstutkimukseni "Yleisö olosuhteena" lähdemateriaalina käytetyt, muiden tekemät esitykset, joihin olen osallistunut yleisön jäsenenä elokuusta 2017 lähtien.
This is an apparatus designed to address the issue of a shared place in these times of distance and displacement. It aims to take sensible slices of multiple places and compose them into a site somewhere else.