Sunday, January 15, 2012
Thursday, August 25, 2011
WE LOVE JOAN RIVERS!
We have been watching this documentary for inspiration!
Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnojZw54ls
Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnojZw54ls
More Research - The '27 Club'
After the sad death of Amy Winehouse we began doing more research in to the media circus that inevitably happens when a celebrity dies. We also looked in to the myth of the '27 Club'.
Here is one article we found particularly interesting.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
audience = sitters
We are investigating the power of the audience member as an active participant in the performance event. If theatre is a dialogue between the artists and the audience, what is the essence of that two-way transaction?
Sophie and I aren't interested in putting the audience in the spotlight as such. It's a fine balance between the discomfort that makes an individual close off from an experience, and the discomfort that makes them active.
We know that theatre needs an audience, but how is that different to cinema or even visual art? They too require audiences, but the work exists in the first instance to then be 'viewed' by a spectator.
We want to create an experience that literally cannot happen without its audience. We want to investigate that complicity that occurs when a person enters a theatre with the desire to contribute through the presence of their body in the communal space. This work is about a group of people creating through the mere presence of their bodies.
This article gives a great outline on the importance of the 'sitters' for a seance
Sophie and I aren't interested in putting the audience in the spotlight as such. It's a fine balance between the discomfort that makes an individual close off from an experience, and the discomfort that makes them active.
We know that theatre needs an audience, but how is that different to cinema or even visual art? They too require audiences, but the work exists in the first instance to then be 'viewed' by a spectator.
We want to create an experience that literally cannot happen without its audience. We want to investigate that complicity that occurs when a person enters a theatre with the desire to contribute through the presence of their body in the communal space. This work is about a group of people creating through the mere presence of their bodies.
This article gives a great outline on the importance of the 'sitters' for a seance
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