Performance workshop for the master 1 in scenography at the ENSAV la Cambre.
Starting with “Meanwhile,” (and “Va-et-Vient”) and other artistic references:
We worked on the relationship between the body and a plastic medium, this in a performance situation, and its scenographic implications.
How to consider the constituent elements of a performance on the same level: the body, space, light, sound. What relationships develop between these elements, and how their connectivity affects each other. And how this ties in with the theories of new materialism (see Bruno Latour). See article by Kate Mattingly on Meanwhile,. We will look at the implications of Bruno Latour's theories and its implications in performance situations, on the agency, and how to create performative devices with these theories in mind (this with a focus on scenography).
Treating each element on the same level means creating the possibility of transversality and the possible questioning of scales of value (primacy of meaning over form, of the dramaturgy of the text over the rest, of the subject over basically, of the actor in space)
Starting from Meanwhile, and the transmission of form vocabulary + different tasks linked to the subject + group negotiations based on a score based on tasks and choices linked to the subject.
We observer how the performative material is born from the relationship with the chosen medium, this medium carrying, by its nature, a semantic universe and physical constraints. From these constraints emerge a vocabulary of form and action. It is from the material itself that the subject and the dramaturgy are born. It is by giving space to the material that the subject can appear. With Aimé.es Rossi, Gregorio Pettoni, Aylyn Bendehina, Juliette Bestandji, Benjamin Muzart, Robinson Catelin.
DATES
10.2021 - Master in scenography - ENSAV La Cambre - Brussels (Be).
