Exploring Objects as Genuine Artifacts and Story Keepers
Exploring Objects as Genuine Artifacts and
Story Keepers
How to use objects as a genuine artifact taken from intimate
environment to theatrical space?
Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as CollectorBarbican Art Gallery
Influence and Research
“Theatre should be more interesting then gazing on a street, as gazing on a street is extremely interesting” (Konstantin Bogomolov, Russian director)
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov “The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away”
work dedicated to transporting domestic space and objects into performance/gallery space
Heiner Goebbels “Stifter’s Dinge”
theatre with objects that create action without humans
Katie Mitchell “Waves”
theatre with live video broadcast giving various view points of the stage
Theory
- finding the particular qualities of private space (using real homes, photography, documentary filming)
- exploring the value of an object segregated from its natural environment to theatrical space
Jannis Kounellis“Senza Titolo”
1979 Tate Modern
Practice
- Using text where domestic space is dramatically important
- Trying to examine one scene through adding, reducing and replacing the presence of genuine artifacts and seeing what does it change
Methods
-audience interaction with the space/ objects
-macro view points through video technology/photography
- -creating additional to stage space for object museum presentation
–Pyotr Vail “The Genius of Place”
“A throne in a private habitation keeps the same title that it does in a castle, but means something absolutely different .”
„Forte Forte” Alvis Hermanis, Latvia