Today’s lecture consisted of a presentation that has been
led by a guest lecturer from Chicago ,Columbia College, Brain Shaw . We started with a worm up exercise/game which was meant
to help us focused, concentrate and be able to listen and learn. We were introduced
to an artist, Mark Lombardi who draws. The way he describes his drawings is that
it’s all public information and he is rearranging it in to a visual format that
is meaningful to him. The drawings portray a map/landscape of connection web
between global finance and international terrorism.
We also looked at videos of physical theatre company
Plasticane, which Brian is a part of. The videos showed how the company responds to their research through
physical theatre. One of the productions we had a closer look at was "The Doorslam". Brian then filled us in on how the idea came about. We foud out that Brian drew the inspiration from working in a hotel. I somehow struggle to see the relevence of creating from the archieves.
http://www.plasticene.com/
In the second half of the seminar, groups were asked to rehearse
to later show their work to the rest of the groups. I and one other member of
my group had a discussion about possibly incorporating our own dreams in our
piece. We talked about our individual dreams and nightmares. Features that stood
out to me from this discussion ware: the inability to focus the vision on an
object or person in a dream, the ability to see very clearly in high definition
during a dream, the fact that running can be difficult during a dream, the fact
that we dream about crashing and we wake up. Then we started questioning the relevance
of name of the original Dream Capsule to what its representing. We realized
that we only started thinking about our own dreams because the name of the
piece has the word ‘dream’ in it. We reminded ourselves that the Dream Capsule
is about displaying the private to the public. The other half of my group has
went to the Goldsmiths LIFT Archives to see if they can find any more
documentation that we could possibly work off as we all agreed that we need
more documentation material.
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