EMMA: New Ground

Cryptic Summary of week 3

Summary blog 4/16/06

Organization, recall, and summary:

We have been strategizing on ways to create a group interactive performance piece. As a group we responded to Annie Bessera’s email about structured time and lists, and discussed the situation of multi-tasking when developing content as a group – the pros and cons. Agreed to include the entire group in all directed activity, whether movement/choreographic process based, or tech/computer based. Observing set-up activities was by consensus considered an important part of the process.

From the white board:

BRAINSTORM/tone/overarching ideas
Systems: Choreography/technology/interactivity
- Objects relate to Choreography, which relates to Images which changes the Choreography
- Parts of choreography “turned on” by intereactions; trigger/sensors, series of cause and effect – sensors embedded in objects?
- Installation vs. traditional theatrical presentation
- Multiplicity/fragments

Public/private space
What is Public, what is Private; different for each individual
Control/discipline: how do we show the beauty and negativity in space/architecture for audience
- Workshop: boundaries/hallways, cubicles, maze, partitions
- Use of projected images: texture/scenic, filtered images, others? Use of camera/image to create architectural space
- Scenario: Enter the space, video on audience/viewing the viewers, audience/performer relationship

Surveillance/gaze an important issue to address for group?
- Awareness of being viewed
- Change of awareness over time

Ideas to explore
- Puppetry
- Cellular space
- Peep show
- Fun house
- Carnival
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posted by Peter @ 2:57 PM