Exploring Objects as Genuine Artifacts and

Story Keepers

How to use objects as a genuine artifact taken from intimate

environment to theatrical space?

Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as CollectorBarbican Art Gallery

Influence and Research

“Theatre should be more interesting then gazing on a street, as gazing on a street is extremely interesting” (Konstantin Bogomolov, Russian director)

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov “The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away”

work dedicated to transporting domestic space and objects into performance/gallery space

Heiner Goebbels “Stifter’s Dinge”

theatre with objects that create action without humans

Katie Mitchell “Waves”

theatre with live video broadcast giving various view points of the stage

Theory

- finding the particular qualities of private space (using real homes, photography, documentary filming)

- exploring the value of an object segregated from its natural environment to theatrical space

Jannis Kounellis“Senza Titolo”

1979 Tate Modern

Practice

- Using text where domestic space is dramatically important

- Trying to examine one scene through adding, reducing and replacing the presence of genuine artifacts and seeing what does it change

Methods

-audience interaction with the space/ objects

-macro view points through video technology/photography

- -creating additional to stage space for object museum presentation

–Pyotr Vail “The Genius of Place”

“A throne in a private habitation keeps the same title that it does in a castle, but means something absolutely different .”

„Forte Forte” Alvis Hermanis, Latvia