“If something appears to you special and you want to bring it to the stage, it means, you take it out from life (except you live also on the stage, which you can) and bring it to some artificial setting. [...]
If everything appears to you special, you can happily wander the world and wonder, you don't need to do anything about it (except it is your hobby). It can mean you are born with an aesthetic angle of viewing, which pulls you a bit out of the daily life – you can enjoy all these experiences of beauty(*) within yourself, find common friends or try to share it in a context, e.g. theatre. It can also mean that you are alive, that’s it.
*scenography is not just about settings of beauty, but somehow, if a setting mirrors absurdity, pain, decay, growth and processes of living, we call it beauty (this is an art article).” [2]
[2] PYL, MANIFESTO ON SCENOGRAPHY WITHOUT BORDERS, 2021
SCENOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE, NO MATTER IF WE NOTICE IT OR NOT
OBJECTS HAVE RELATIONS AND PERFORM THEM FOR EACH OTHER
WE ARE OBJECTS TOO, SO WE ALSO PERFORM FOR EACH OTHER
WE CAN ALSO CONNECT AND BEHOLD THE PERFORMING OBJECTS
PUTTING THEM TO SPECIFIC ASSEMBLAGES
WHICH MAKES SENSE FOR US AT CERTAIN MOMENTS
WE MIGHT CALL THESE ASSAMBLAGES “SCENOGRAPHY”
BUT LET’S KEEP IN MIND THAT THEY ARE ALIVE
AS WELL AS WE ARE
In her book “Vibrant Matter: Political Ecology of Things”, Jane Bennet describes thing-power as “strange ability” of things and items “to exceed their status [...] and to manifest traces of independence or aliveness”[1]. Sometimes, the presence of certain objects in one spacetime becomes so intense that we start feeling that they have their own life and own way of acting that has nothing to do with our needs and intentions. My research tends to link this state of perception of the surroundings with the notion of a soul of things and to investigate ways of its revealing within a daily life context.
If something appears to you special and you want to bring it to the stage, it means, you take it out from life (except you live also on the stage, which you can) and bring it to some artificial setting. Okay, actually this separation is old-fashioned.
If everything appears to you special, you can happily wander the world and wonder, you don't need to do anything about it (except it is your hobby). It can mean you are born with an aesthetic angle of viewing, which pulls you a bit out of the daily life – you can enjoy all these experiences of beauty(*) within yourself, find common friends or try to share it in a context, e.g. theatre. It can also mean that you are alive, that’s it.