Presentation #1
Hi all,
Attached is the introduction to a book I’ve been reading, Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Contemporary Culture.
There are a few essays that are interesting, but this is a good overview. I can post some more of them if anyone would like.
and another inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7aiDgOiSw
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PROPOSAL #1
life-size dollhouse
Construction of a life-sized, three-walled domestic space that could be walked into and through. Fully furnished and functional in terms of plumbing and electricity – interior and exterior construction complete. Viewers would be invited to enter and explore the “house” or simply view it as a whole from the outside.
interests and inspirations:
“…all cultural space – indoors and outdoors, built and ‘natural’ – is a function to a greater or lesser degree of the human response to its own evolving condition… the space enables the response, which in turn creates the space. Causer and caused, first and second, change places in a perpetually reversing metalepsis.”
- construction of a place
- construction of characters via their place
- surrealism
- performance spaces
- public vs. private
- identity
- ownership
PROPOSAL #2
performance piece
Create and choreograph a performance piece originating from the point of view of the setting. Instead of the choreographic concepts dictating the accompanying visual elements such as set and costume to evoke or explain place, the setting/place would determine the choreography. I am not referring to site-specific performance, this would take place in a theater or gallery. For example, if the setting was a house, then the performance could deal with issues such as protection vs. intrusion, privacy, refuge, etc… Physical representation of the setting would be kept to a minimum.
interests and inspirations:
- performance
- movement as another visual language
- time
- audience’s role or perspective – they would function as an extension of the setting
- Piña Bausch
- Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods
LINKS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalepsis
http://www.damagedgoods.be/
http://www.impulstanz.com/gallery/videos/performances/en&page=1&sort=mod_sort
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