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.

Contretemps (Countertime)

Double-Act/National Theatre of Finland, Helsinki

Contretemps is a part of the project-publication Näyttää, näyttämö, näyttely, näyttö, co-realized with the artist and researcher Mireia c. Saladrigues, and published on the web-magazine Nómade, Arte y Pensamiento, #7 June: El Tiempo y las Instituciones (Time and Institutions) To the publication online.

Contretemps#1 consists of inviting Saladrigues to arrive at the entrance to the National Theatre of Helsinki at the end of a theatre show and to enter the theatre while the audience is leaving. Once placed at the orchestra, the delayed spectators attend the after-show until they are asked to leave the building.

Contretemps#2 consists of inviting Saladrigues to arrive at the entrance to the National Theatre of Helsinki at the time of the beginning of the show. Instead of getting in, the host proposes his guest walks around the building while the show goes on inside, and to report on the play he would have attended the night before.

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