Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Forms/Audience/Tools

Architectural Forms

Open Installation/Environment
-audience can move freely between multiple installations or interactive stations

Continuous Pulse (small sphincter)
-smaller audience groups are moved in a specific order from one room/location to next. New audience group is moved into a room once previous leaves. can be linear or circular

Singular Pulse (large sphincter)
-full audience is moved from one room/location to the next.

Durational
-audience is divided into multiple rooms and performers move between the rooms (typically long-lasting)

Public space/spectacle
-uncontrolled public space. many different audience possibilities

Multiple Locations
-show takes place over various diverse locations either simultaneously or consecutively (multiple rooms in one place are not considered multiple locations)

Remote
-audience is connected remotely to performance, most likely by some sort of electronic device


Audience types

-Large/Full
-Small/Divided
-Partners
-Solo


Tools

-Tour Guide
-Map
-Instructions (audio/visual/written/live)
-Interpretation/Presentation (audio/visual/written/live)
-Teaching / Training
-Audio Repetition
(repeat what you hear)

-Direct Feedback (i.e. mic direct to headphones, video direct to monitor, mirror)
-Delayed Feedback (i.e. playback of recorded material, repeating of earlier material)
-Flocking / Echoing
-Information piping (using gathered information later in show)
-Installation/Set Piece/Interactive
-Survey / Interview / Direct Questioning
-Application / Registration
-Conversation
-Limited interaction (i.e. life extension pod)
-Intercom (walkie talkies, cell phones, etc.)
-Audience Plant
-Ghosting
-Recalling earlier ideas and motivations / Motif
-Space Pod (large plastic bag)
-Moving Air (fan)
-Food (i.e. tea and bicuits)
-Choral reading
-Rallying / Parade
-Soap Box
-Space walking/Anti-gravity
-Anti-gravity Harness

2 comments:

djbrokenwindow said...

Hmm, "Spectacle" ..makes me think of spectacle of the lowest kind, like a circus... like "we will now turn off gravity in this space for 10 seconds!". "Wow!!"

emma said...

circus is awesome, what you talking 'bout.