STROLL AROUND IN DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES OF
EXPERIMENTATIONS IN SCENOGRAPHY
a discovery in understanding what theatricality means and what a theatre space is and inholds.
What is already there. Not arguing to the fact that it is a school, or it is a station. Or it was a factory but now a place where artist can exhibit. Embracing that every mark tells a little bit of it’s history and that it’s about the search to emphasise on it. I use it, instead of changing it. Understanding a space is accepting the subjectiveness, because it’s still a matter of making choices. What is important, what not? What has to stay and what is distracting? Merging theatricality and reality is now adopting the space temporally, to stretch it’s qualities in a design with a performative happening.
february 2021
The merged worlds is not asking for music anymore
All the encounters and daily life became the subject here.
T H E A T R I C AL I T Y
My definition and interpretation
Theatrical is a word with connotation, we have the idea of associating the word with ‘dramatic’, ‘overdone’, ‘big gestures’.
Theatrical means implying tension. It can be very minimalistic.
It’s about giving meaning to something that is catching your attention, something that is almost ‘performing’ because something is happing on the contrary.
Working in a theatre space is so to speak erasing the reality and framing the subject so
it becomes the main performer.
As a scenographer I needed to materialize and experiment to realise that this theatricality
exist everywhere, we only need scenogrpahic tools like light, sound, time, .. to emphasize on it.
Theatricality has more to do with positioning in my point of view. Like a certain object in relation to the architecture, a gesture of time and happening implies imagination.
Merging theatricality and reality
Scenography is briefly about the experience of space and objects, originally coming from the theatre world. The experience happens within the spectator and the space, so a scenographer’s job is not only involved with the story but also by the creation of the whole situation. ‘Theatre’ and ‘world’ are quite conflicting in a sense. Our world is where we live, our reality. The job we perform, our family and surroundings. I experience reality rather individually because I’m confronted with my own choices all the time. The theatre is the place you go to for entertainment, which is still situated in our reality but our state of mind lies somewhere else. We are in a collective experience, a night on location, a night where someone else’s story is important. We are used to share our findings and feelings. The difference and the similarities between theatricality and reality are my inspiration for this research because it’s not fixed, these two terms are open for interpretation and philosophy. This research is so to speak personal yet involved very socially.
The woman of the library told me that everything has to do with ‘experience’ nowadays. I agree, is it because the art world developed that way? Because there are more tools to create such new experiences? Because we are used to travel, used to the virtual world, and how did our situation ‘Covid19’ influence on it?
Interesting to hear when your study is about creating experiences, to me it’s about finding awareness first.
Perfomative ecology
An experiment on dramaturgy in the theatrespace.
Materialization of our translated 'city', a centre point
where the spectator is invited to walk around and move along with the performance.
The technicalities, cables and light pushes us back from the installlation to create distance and overview
to watch the effect of our performative transparent worlds.