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.

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The research project finds its performative origin in Venice, in the Research Pavilion in the context of the 57th Art Biennale, where director-researcher Vincent Roumagnac and architect-researcher Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou inaugurated it by whispering, together with a recorded murmuring digital voice, an opening text titled "Considerings", by Roumagnac's exhibited artwork Backdrop (Venice).

"Considerings" forms as a litany, with a polyphonic dimension, mixing up computer and human voices. It echoes Marcel Duchamp's "Etant donnés" while playing with the pattern of legal discourse in order to set the poetic and conceptual foundations of the research platform.

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Views of the successive occurences of Considerings

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