ACT II
SCENE 1
Character:
Setting: Audience in room 0.18.
Synopsis: Observer confirming its position within the artistic process.
(In room 0.18)
OBSERVER
I am the first, I am always the first. The first thing you learn, the first thing you do. This is my place within the process, and my voice itself arises through the phases of looking, observing and noticing. I look through my eyes, I observe with my conscience, and I notice along with my sensibility. In this last semester I’ve been exploring the most disparate environments, which I’ve found have also challenged my perception of public and private space.
I’ve looked at what is spatially intriguing to me, I’ve observed there’s not a clear, but many nuances defining the threshold between public and private, and I noticed I’ve come back again to a more confined sphere.
I can now state these considerations after discovering the importance of proposing projects multiple times. By observing another or the same version of them, I found out aspects I didn’t notice before and that helped me in seeing more clearly what I find interesting, how it can get more interesting, therefore what could be improved. These are actually findings belonging not only to my voice, ok…Let’s just say it..Also to Researcher’s. And of course Inner Critic’s, who is indeed omnipresent in each step of the process.
In fact I know it’s critising me when this last thought leads me to wonder what is the most interesting location for me to work on.
Umm not easy, not easy, you should know by now, ‘under pressure’ doesn’t rhyme with my name, Lingerer fits best maybe as a surname. Hoping you have even less expectations about me now, I can tell I would still like to explore a wider range of possibilities, because each one has a specific characteristic that triggers me in a particular way. If I need to choose though, for how much I aim to get out of the four walls, and even when I’ve found myself looking at the plant of a certain area and exploring it to understand which is the most ‘public’ and crowded spot and which one a secondary place, I’ve come back to the walls. This doesn’t necessarily mean the future plan has been fixed, really, but as of now, I see myself more comfortable in there, also because of the degree of control I can have in a similar space when being, for example, specifically keen to curate the dramaturgical and spectatorial aspects.
But maybe Inner Critic would like to elaborate more on this, wouldn’t you?
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