lab notes and feedback
The lab experience was very interesting for me. I had the chance to show work and see the reactions of my spectators.
I stayed a bit confused with the idea of presenting dreams and memories. It looks a bit risky in the sense that as they told me, it is a bit subjective and general. This makes my experimentation more difficult but I still want to try to give this quality in my work. I think that this subject of dream and non reality-imagination etc. has been explored from some cinema directors very successfully (David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman) and for me it has a lot of possibilities and a lot of potentials, especially in the visual part.
Sound
I had a lot of comments concerning the sound that I used. The truth is that I worked much less on the sound than on the image but I discovered that it is something that I should take more care of, as sometimes sound can be even more strong than the images and lead you where it wants. I had positive and negative opinions about the sound. For sure it was considered evocative, something that is ambiguous. It was said that the sound gave the dreamy atmosphere that I wanted to achieve more than the images, something that it was not agreed by everybody, but still it is a comment to think about. I came to the conclusion that in a performance of this kind it would be better to use sounds and not music, something more simple.
Body
The illusion between the recorded and the live body was not achieved (just in a few moments) but I knew already this. The video was not very well done to present a shadow and I dint have time to redo it. But the idea of confusing the real shadow with the projected one was received in a positive way.
Immersive
As I was preparing the lab, and after seeing also the performance ‘Kursk’ at Young Vic, I started thinking on the notion of immersive performance which I find very interesting. In my opinion the relation of the spectator to the performance is more about experience than participation. I am interested in the illusion and the feeling that a spectator can live during a performance.
In my case, I thought on the physical relation (position, size, proximity) that a spectator should have with the screen(s). I saw that my audience would prefer to stand between the two projections in order to feel a part of the space and to consider the space as three-dimensional (which is one of my goals). So, the position and the distance for the screen and probably the number of the spectators is something I am going to consider more in my next performance, as I would like my audience to be emotionally involved to it.
