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.

The Theatre Season LECTURE

Installation - Video Lecture

The Theatre Season LECTURE is a 42' weathered lecture that was video-documented with two cameras on the site where the project The Theatre Season took place. The artist-researcher lip-syncs a pre-recorded version of the lecture, performed on the stage of the replica indoor of The Theatre Season REDUX. Another recording overlaps the first track; it consists of the soundscape of the silent lip-synchronized sequence filmed on site. This second recording almost fully recovers the voice of the lecturer, producing massive interferences from the close environment, mainly the strong autumn wind rubbing the microphone of the camera. The lecture is a translation (from French) and augmented writing of an introduction to the research, based on the project The Theatre Season, which was given in the Department of Communication of the University of Montreal. On the occasion of the examination of the first doctoral artistic part, The Theatre Season LECTURE was proposed as a contextual metacommunication, both on the project itself and on its processual context that is to say the artistic research milieu. Thus it was coupling the twofold question of how to convey the research focus through playing with the academic format of a lecture and, at the same time, of how to address the epistemic thresholds between scholar discursive construction and artistic research expositionality. The Theatre Season LECTURE was thus at the same time informative, disruptive and speculative; both an attempt to critically deconstruct academic epistemic discursive demand and an experiment of generating another kind of mediation through touching on and with the topic itself i.e. the disturbing dynamics of the permutation between other-than-human backstage agency and staged anthropo-logo-centrism.

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