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.

Seven Go.b.os

Ready-mades

A gobo, whose term derives from English goes before optics, is a metal plate placed in front of a projector, on which is cut a pattern, most often with laser ablation techniques. It is used to give a shape to a light that is cast over a space or an object, for example, to produce a pattern of clouds on a theatre stage.

Seven used gobos, of two different sizes, and found in the light department of the Theatre Academy of Helsinki where the research takes place, are exhibited as such, as readymades. Their patterns correspond to clouds, leaves, grass and sea waters. The discolored oxidation of the stainless steel and the slight distortion of the metal are caused by the high temperature of the lamp of the stage projector.

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