REACCLIMATING THE STAGE (SKENOMORPHOSES)

vincent roumagnac

REACCLIMATING THE STAGE (SKENOMORPHOSES) An Ecotonal Doctoral Piece in 40 Scènes, 15 Parergonal Writings and 5 Double-Postcards. From the perspective of mise-en-scène (staging), and correlatively that of the place and the practice of the metteur-en-scène (theatre director), this artistic research project addresses, examines and experiments on the question of the scenic/scenographic representation of a postnatural world, in climate transition, affected by global warming and moved by abstract data-flows, in a tangled web of storms, information, and algorithms. While lived and conceptual "time", no longer telically given as linear and chronological, is being anthropodecentered and, therefore, diffracted into an open plurality, the Reacclimating the Stage (Skenomorphoses) artistic research project takes the earlier notion of time as a raw material to reexamine, from an eco-scenic and research perspective, in order to transform the theatrical practice of its author and to trigger the latter’s specific contribution to artistic research milieu. By obliquely playing on one hand with memories of theatrical history of scenic internal modi operandi, architecture, and literature, and on the other hand with institutional requirements for doctoral research appearance, the project aims at repositioning the director's practice in a movement of transition of scenic thinking and imaginary through a series of artistic and research experiments, whose enactments and resonant redistribution are poetically at interpretative play in this exposition.

Backdrop (Biarritz)

Videoscenic Installation/Performing Scenography

"Aura Sidus Mare Adjuvant me." Motto of the city of Biarritz (Basque Country, France)

This installation consists of wood beams, paper screen and white molton stage curtain hanging from a steel structure. The looping video (3') was shot by the Atlantic Ocean, in Biarritz (Basque Country). It is edited with the supplement of a pale, ghostly, glitching blue layer. A photographic triptych printed on three wooden panels assembled together in the fashion of a retable (three-fold icon) and a 3D print of a wrecked ship could complement the finalized project of exhibition to come. ►

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