solo proposal

1. Aim/ Objectives
I want to make a space into a surreal installation stage and a performance installation piece, testing an idea that how make audience interact or perform themselves in the piece.
In my piece, only space, objects and action will provide audience with their own decision to react, without actors or narratives, according to provided condition and asked mission audience could create their own story in abstract and surreal stage (space).

2. Methods
When the audience enter the space, they can find shiny tube lines which are hanging on the ceiling. These lines are linked on the centre part, which audience cannot see inside before they reach this area. Audiences will be asked to keep walking between two lines. They can make their own way by changing connections of tube lines or just follow the way made by other people. In the centre, I will put heart-shaped object which people can take one part of it away. After every piece is taken away, clear heart can be seen.

3. The thing I need
- space : TV studio or lecture theatre (clean square box space which can be black out)
- Date/ duration : 30/ Apr – 1/ May
First day --> Set up
Second day --> Show all day from morning to evening
or split into two times or three times.

I am going to Korea during ester and back 26 Apr. Even though I will keep working in Korea, I need few days before the show. If the space above is not available, I need to find other space and change the plan.

4. Materials
- One spot light in the centre
- Possibility of using sound, Not loud, Using background sound
- Installation --> LED/ PVC/ Fishing rope/ Reflection tape/ liquid/ etc
- Ladder for set-up

Phase lapse

Draft for solo piece

Alongside my critical study, in my solo piece I will examine my idea in terms of visual outcome and structure of performance. In visual point of view, some objects and installation which can work as a entire set piece will be used to create action inside actual space. In the other part, I want to see each audience as a performer inside space. Thus without actors, each audience can create their own performance.

Theme for project is that questioning happiness and its nortion, then looking for different definition which are originating from individul's experience of life. Being involved in my piece can be regarded as a meditation or ritual of daily life. Throughout this, I want to extend this rituals, pilgrim to everyday life. Even though we don't have a fixed or final answer of that question, we are not in front of final destination of life, I want to let my audience stop walking for a while, and looking at our daily life, searching for something (can give us sense of happiness or anything can be valuable in our life), sharing what we found with other audience.

synopsis- almost like installation work, the space will booked for entire day, and audience are allowed come and go whenever they want. However only one person is allowed come inside center space. Before audience reach center space, they will walk through revolving elly which finally lead each audience to the center space. I haven't decided how I make this elly like jouney or pilgrim of everyday life. (I 'm thinking of using simple story or narrative and make storyboard for each step(stage) When single audience enter the center space,there will be a tree and an animal of imagine(I still looking for what will be suitable). That animal will give them a ball which contains other audience's defination or memory of happiness. The audience with this can spent some time inside the space until he/she get their own answer, then pick up one of ball which are hanging on the tree. After they finish write theirs and give to the animal, their pilgim/ performance will finish, but the ball they left will be delieverd to another audience.

This is still just an idea, I need to define this piece, but I made drawing as I followed first image coming up in mind.

Themepark VS Theatre

I have been stuck in my mind at some point since 2nd term started. It 's getting seem clear the thing make me in trouble was fear or lack of confidence in making performance. Even though I aleady got several ideas, I couldn't go further. I hope that this language process will the first step toward the solution of the question.
When I was working as a costume designer, whether a director likes me speak up my voice about the pieces or not, my job was clear to me. I had my own tool and I knew how to use and apply it to the entire production. However here I've been given a chance to make performance my own. It can be a oppotunity at the same time a chllenge, because I got only one tool, me. In order to creat someting which could be called as a performance, I needed to exert my tool and skill. Natually I started look at installation or situation which have a possibilitiy for me in using in a prctical way. My idea would be fitted in the that kind of construction of notion. Without a performer and their speech or text, audience will be allowed to explore space and also given some mission to be engaged in the space and the performance. Furthermore in this piece each audience can understand her/himself as a performer. It was ok until some question arose. If so, what is difference with themepark? In this consumer's society, not only theme park, but also other entertainment facillities such as shopping malls, museums, and even restarants can be themetised place and their audience (customers) will be given some experiences. The question is how my show could be differentiated from this kind of things? It could be because they have different objects(of a maker) or expectation(of a visitor) or point of view(of disciplinary), but I'm not sure and it's not enough. One more question, what does entertainment mean in this contempory and experimental theatre? Is it guily to have it like industrial theatre? What do you think?