SPACE PROJECT REHEARSAL
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Milepost 5
Jonathan, Julie, Faith, Maesie, Jerry, Jeb, Liz, Scott
HOMEWORK:
- Source Material for (Sunday (Intros))
- Etude, Mirror Clip. Approximate flow of images as if your own life. Hyper-realize it. (Wednesday)
- React to Proust, Etude (Wed/Thurs)
ACTION ITEMS:
1) Monitor for Wednesday (julie or Liz)
2) (Jonathan) Microphones
3) (Jonathan) Contact List
4) (Jonathan) Email James about getting video working and sound card
5) Buy rechargeable 2 9V, 4 AA batteries (Liz)
Notes After the jump...
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Rehearsal Notes 3/4/10
SPACE PROJECT REHEARSAL
Wednesday, March 4th, 2010
Milepost 5
Jonathan, Faith, Julie, Nick
Homework:
We will spend time looking at source material on Sunday
Maesie: bring key pieces of Proust text for us to work with.
Jonathan's ACTION Notes: Set aside box and binder for storing source material in the space. Must have working monitor by Sunday (who will fetch?). Acquire many AA rechargeable batteries.
Notes after the jump...
Wednesday, March 4th, 2010
Milepost 5
Jonathan, Faith, Julie, Nick
Homework:
We will spend time looking at source material on Sunday
Maesie: bring key pieces of Proust text for us to work with.
Jonathan's ACTION Notes: Set aside box and binder for storing source material in the space. Must have working monitor by Sunday (who will fetch?). Acquire many AA rechargeable batteries.
Notes after the jump...
Rehearsal Notes 3/3/10
SPACE PROJECT REHEARSAL
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Milepost 5
Jonathan, Julie, Faith, Maesie, Jerry, Marc, Liz
Jonathan's Notes: Need- space heater, monitor (computer), keyboard.
Warm Ups: 30 min (S-6:12, E-6:40)
Etude:
Faith 2 etudes- 3 people for the 1st, 2 people for the 2nd
Julie 3 etudes- 1 solo, 2 people for the 2nd and 3rd
Maesie 2 etudes- both require all
Jonathan 1 etude- 3 people
Faith, human-exhibits-
Faith sits gives instructions. Shines light on Maesie (Exhibit 1). Asks us to observe her posture and compare ourselves to her. Light out. Light on Julie (Exhibit 2). Compare 1 to 2 and both to ourselves. Light out. Light up, 1 and 2 stand next to each other. Light out. Please stay seated, please listen carefully repeated in the dark. Light up. 1 and 2 next to each other. Focus on expression and emotions. Light out. Light up. 1 standing, 2 seated. Asks us to close our eyes. Light out. Light up. Both stand, we are asked to open our eyes. What differences do we see? 1 and 2 sit crosslegged.
Notes:
Break: 7:30
Jonathan, fear look at the door-
Faith at microphone podium. Strobe downstage R. Maesie sits center, Julie on floor SR. Faith describes being held down by a weight, unable to move. Repeats "I couldn't move." Single floor light aimed at podium SL. Faith moves to Julie, Maesie moves to podium. Looks at door, pauses. Mumbles into microphone, looks at Faith, Julie. Faith speaks quietly in the corner. Maesie repeats "I couldn't breathe", She looks down and holds herself still as she speaks. Looks at Faith, Julie. Moves to chair. Julie moves to podium. Looks at door. Faith and Maesie talk to each other. Julie repeats story, repeats "I couldn't scream". Looks at Faith, Maesie.
Notes:
Julie, the blowjob test tube-
Podium down center. Lights out. Music plays. Lights up on podium. Julie moves slowly upstage L from the house holding a test tube with red goo in front of her. Moves to upstage wall and turns to face us at center. She wears a white paintsuit that covers her head. She moves to the podium and pours red goo into a clear testtube. A foamy reaction occurs.
Notes: Music-'Susperia' by Goblin.
Faith, laugh, jump, laugh-
Lights out. Tense string music plays. Music out. Lights up. Maesie laughs and jumps hysterically upstage. Music in. Lights out. Music out. Lights up. Maesie resumes laughing and jumping. Comes to a place of calm. Takes deep breaths. Lights out. Music in. Music out. Lights up. Maesie is still. Immediate lights out. Music in. Lights up. Music out. Maesie slowly looks SL. Lights out. Music in. Music out. Lights up. Maesie stares SL. A look of joy slowly grows until...music in. Faith rushes onstage and joins her in jumping and laughing.
Julie, test tube picnic.
Music plays. Julie carries a picnic basket onstage. Makes her way to center, looks around, smiles. Places basket on ground. Kneels, spreads a white napkin. Places in carefully in a ziploc bag, presses out the excess air. Sits back, smiles. Takes a white paint suit from the basket. Puts it on over her white dress. Takes an empty test tube from the basket. Places three spoonfulls of white powder from mason jar in test tube. Pours clear liquid from mason jar into test tube. A white foam reaction occurs. She removes paint suit, lays it out. Picks up basket and leaves.
Break: 15 min (7:55)
Discussion:
Source:
Masie -What is the purpose of the source? Structure, text?
Jonathan -wants the source material first, structure later. Source is place to get 'real things from'. Use them to generate content; text, visuals, music.
Marc- State that we are definately working for a set body of sources?
Specificity- narrow from 'epic poems' to 'epic poems by ___'.
Jonathan- Use this source method as a launching point and not an end goal. Need to choose between themes or sources.
Julie- Sources sometimes spring from the themes.
Faith-Until the sources have been picked the guiding force will default to themes.
Jonathan- Need some pressure to kick-start ideas. Force us to make a decision, "who's gonna bring it?"
Sources it is. Until we have it, keep using etudes.
Jonathan-wants to hear one source from each person.
Jonathan-Were there any ideas from last rehearsal that speak to everyone?
Faith-There were a few common threads. Tarkofsky, proust.
Marc- Sources should be digestable in roughly 10min. Bring in highlighted sections of source, or clips.
Julie- Use blog to communicate sources and notes?
Jonathan- It's up to the provider to make the source appealing. Sources should be clearly and effieciently presented.
Liz
-Oryx and Crake, search for the real in a hyper advance world.
NOTES: Drawn to the relationship between Tarkovsky's films and the novels they were based on. Intrigued to view "The Stalker".
Faith
-Films of Tarkovsky (has posted a clip from "The Mirror" on the blog. Will be posting further clips tomorrow.)
-"The Stalker", similar to "Solaris", title means 'to approach vertically'. Based on book "Roadside Picnic". Professional guide to THE ZONE, a wilderness area cordoned off by the gov. It is a room that grants wishes and desires of inhabitants. A place where laws of physics no longer apply. Other films include "The Sacrifice" and "Nostalgia". Faith will work on acquiring the remaining films. Exploring metaphysical and emotinal states.
NOTES: Borges- excited by the idea of looking at speeches (as a counter-point) to articulate what the show as a whole is attempting. How can we use this more "heady material".
Maesie-
-Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (7 volumes, 4,000 pages translated). Most famous passage "madeline episode" the bite of a madeline takes him back to a memory. The study of involuntary memory. Had an impact on the study of neurology. The book explores formation of experience vs. a linear plot. Art triumphs over the destructive power of time. (Harold Pinter wrote a screenplay for "In Search of Lost Time" in entirety). The book is a circle, with a cyclical emphasis on Time. Maesie is intrigued by the idea of tackling, digesting, and adapting this 4,000 page document. Focus on themes of memory and time.
-"Future Archive". People discussing the present as if they were speaking in the future.
NOTES: Living History- A description of what you are about to see. Using living history as a frame (creating worlds). More lighthearted than the work has thus far been.
Julie-
-Intro to Science Fiction books as a gateway to philosophy. Science Fiction as a means of exploring the present (by donning the trappings of the future, being an "other"). It allows the viewer/reader, to suspend disbelief and delve deeply into the ideas and feelings behind the story. J.G. Ballard, Borges, introductions.
-Borges, "The book of imaginary beings". Discussing the taking of children to zoos. Zoo of reality, zoo of mythology. "The Zoology of dreams is far pooer than the zoology of the Maker."
-Phillip K. Dick, what is reality? what constitutes the authentic human being? "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." A secret love of chaos. Do not assume that order and stability is always good. Before new can be born, old must perish. The viable, elastic organism, that can absorb change; the authentic human being.
NOTES: Different modes emerging. Narrative and non-fiction conceptual exploration. How do our ideas compliment each other or contrast. Film makes us think about theater space as opposed to the literal adapting of a text. Proust- Not sure it makes sense to have something be the core of the show that the rest of the company doesn't fully understand.
Seeking out a richer, fuller text than sci-fi provides.
Jonathan-
- All sources from websites of organizations that do ____________ for a living. The Association of Living History and Farm Agriculture Museums.
-History is always changing, the recent development of "living history". The recreation of particular moments from the past, ignoring modern intrusions.
-Re-enacting ancient battles. Ancient manufacturing techniques. Feasting. Ancient poetry and presenation of literatuer. Socializing.
-Colonial "blop-blop". Only the tourists are out of time and place.
-Shaker historic village. Traditional music, production techniques.
-Aboriginal living skill school in Arizona. Offers well-rounded and honest survival and aborigianl livings skill education.
-History interpreters (=actors). A time in which everday lives were transformed by advances in agriculture and industry.
-Interested in "Future History Museum".
NOTES: Films a good source of images (that can be redefined in a new context). Proust- a well-written text is a golden trump card. A well to return to.
Tarkovsky- Attracted to films as a source of similar moments and themes. Recurring characters, motifs.
Marc-
-Looking for non-fiction work of famous sci-fi/fantasy writers. Intros and prefaces to sci-fi books. Has posted some passages to the blog. Why do artists create off-kilter worlds and scenarios. Accessing the non-ficiton behind sci-fi. Looking for speeches, letters, essays. The corespondance of Phillip K. Dick as he developed "A Scanner Darkly". Interested in hearing writers explain the importance of their works.
-Milan Kundera "The Art of the Novel". What works in fiction and what doesn't. (100 pages long, tries to cover everything).
NOTES: Excited about Proust. It stood out on Sunday. Something of that size would become the 'bible of the show'.
Intros- Short, sweet, could denature the intros and apply them to a different source.
Living History- A re-enactment of the furture.
Jerry-
-Would like to go back to the well. Find a source he is passionate about.
NOTES: Wary of putting to much emphasis on a singular source. Seems harder to use a film (vs. text) to not pull literal moments from the source. Proust provides a wealth of material that brings a freedom to pick and chooses what applies.
Phillip k. Dick- The device of speaking directly to his audience is very performative.
FINAL NOTES:
Building code: 4196. We will try to get someone here 15min early to turn on the heaters. Will prop kitchen door.
Go to googledoc of rehearsal schedule (write in initials for times when you will be present)
If you are more than 10min late call ahead.
Wants to get back into the habit of starting rehearsl at 6pm. Jonathan will be at the space early tomorrow (so will Nick!).
Homework:
Prepare research for a more detailed source discussion this Sunday (3/7). Keep producing etudes from prior notes.
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Milepost 5
Jonathan, Julie, Faith, Maesie, Jerry, Marc, Liz
Jonathan's Notes: Need- space heater, monitor (computer), keyboard.
Warm Ups: 30 min (S-6:12, E-6:40)
Etude:
Faith 2 etudes- 3 people for the 1st, 2 people for the 2nd
Julie 3 etudes- 1 solo, 2 people for the 2nd and 3rd
Maesie 2 etudes- both require all
Jonathan 1 etude- 3 people
Faith, human-exhibits-
Faith sits gives instructions. Shines light on Maesie (Exhibit 1). Asks us to observe her posture and compare ourselves to her. Light out. Light on Julie (Exhibit 2). Compare 1 to 2 and both to ourselves. Light out. Light up, 1 and 2 stand next to each other. Light out. Please stay seated, please listen carefully repeated in the dark. Light up. 1 and 2 next to each other. Focus on expression and emotions. Light out. Light up. 1 standing, 2 seated. Asks us to close our eyes. Light out. Light up. Both stand, we are asked to open our eyes. What differences do we see? 1 and 2 sit crosslegged.
Notes:
Break: 7:30
Jonathan, fear look at the door-
Faith at microphone podium. Strobe downstage R. Maesie sits center, Julie on floor SR. Faith describes being held down by a weight, unable to move. Repeats "I couldn't move." Single floor light aimed at podium SL. Faith moves to Julie, Maesie moves to podium. Looks at door, pauses. Mumbles into microphone, looks at Faith, Julie. Faith speaks quietly in the corner. Maesie repeats "I couldn't breathe", She looks down and holds herself still as she speaks. Looks at Faith, Julie. Moves to chair. Julie moves to podium. Looks at door. Faith and Maesie talk to each other. Julie repeats story, repeats "I couldn't scream". Looks at Faith, Maesie.
Notes:
Julie, the blowjob test tube-
Podium down center. Lights out. Music plays. Lights up on podium. Julie moves slowly upstage L from the house holding a test tube with red goo in front of her. Moves to upstage wall and turns to face us at center. She wears a white paintsuit that covers her head. She moves to the podium and pours red goo into a clear testtube. A foamy reaction occurs.
Notes: Music-'Susperia' by Goblin.
Faith, laugh, jump, laugh-
Lights out. Tense string music plays. Music out. Lights up. Maesie laughs and jumps hysterically upstage. Music in. Lights out. Music out. Lights up. Maesie resumes laughing and jumping. Comes to a place of calm. Takes deep breaths. Lights out. Music in. Music out. Lights up. Maesie is still. Immediate lights out. Music in. Lights up. Music out. Maesie slowly looks SL. Lights out. Music in. Music out. Lights up. Maesie stares SL. A look of joy slowly grows until...music in. Faith rushes onstage and joins her in jumping and laughing.
Julie, test tube picnic.
Music plays. Julie carries a picnic basket onstage. Makes her way to center, looks around, smiles. Places basket on ground. Kneels, spreads a white napkin. Places in carefully in a ziploc bag, presses out the excess air. Sits back, smiles. Takes a white paint suit from the basket. Puts it on over her white dress. Takes an empty test tube from the basket. Places three spoonfulls of white powder from mason jar in test tube. Pours clear liquid from mason jar into test tube. A white foam reaction occurs. She removes paint suit, lays it out. Picks up basket and leaves.
Break: 15 min (7:55)
Discussion:
Source:
Masie -What is the purpose of the source? Structure, text?
Jonathan -wants the source material first, structure later. Source is place to get 'real things from'. Use them to generate content; text, visuals, music.
Marc- State that we are definately working for a set body of sources?
Specificity- narrow from 'epic poems' to 'epic poems by ___'.
Jonathan- Use this source method as a launching point and not an end goal. Need to choose between themes or sources.
Julie- Sources sometimes spring from the themes.
Faith-Until the sources have been picked the guiding force will default to themes.
Jonathan- Need some pressure to kick-start ideas. Force us to make a decision, "who's gonna bring it?"
Sources it is. Until we have it, keep using etudes.
Jonathan-wants to hear one source from each person.
Jonathan-Were there any ideas from last rehearsal that speak to everyone?
Faith-There were a few common threads. Tarkofsky, proust.
Marc- Sources should be digestable in roughly 10min. Bring in highlighted sections of source, or clips.
Julie- Use blog to communicate sources and notes?
Jonathan- It's up to the provider to make the source appealing. Sources should be clearly and effieciently presented.
Liz
-Oryx and Crake, search for the real in a hyper advance world.
NOTES: Drawn to the relationship between Tarkovsky's films and the novels they were based on. Intrigued to view "The Stalker".
Faith
-Films of Tarkovsky (has posted a clip from "The Mirror" on the blog. Will be posting further clips tomorrow.)
-"The Stalker", similar to "Solaris", title means 'to approach vertically'. Based on book "Roadside Picnic". Professional guide to THE ZONE, a wilderness area cordoned off by the gov. It is a room that grants wishes and desires of inhabitants. A place where laws of physics no longer apply. Other films include "The Sacrifice" and "Nostalgia". Faith will work on acquiring the remaining films. Exploring metaphysical and emotinal states.
NOTES: Borges- excited by the idea of looking at speeches (as a counter-point) to articulate what the show as a whole is attempting. How can we use this more "heady material".
Maesie-
-Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (7 volumes, 4,000 pages translated). Most famous passage "madeline episode" the bite of a madeline takes him back to a memory. The study of involuntary memory. Had an impact on the study of neurology. The book explores formation of experience vs. a linear plot. Art triumphs over the destructive power of time. (Harold Pinter wrote a screenplay for "In Search of Lost Time" in entirety). The book is a circle, with a cyclical emphasis on Time. Maesie is intrigued by the idea of tackling, digesting, and adapting this 4,000 page document. Focus on themes of memory and time.
-"Future Archive". People discussing the present as if they were speaking in the future.
NOTES: Living History- A description of what you are about to see. Using living history as a frame (creating worlds). More lighthearted than the work has thus far been.
Julie-
-Intro to Science Fiction books as a gateway to philosophy. Science Fiction as a means of exploring the present (by donning the trappings of the future, being an "other"). It allows the viewer/reader, to suspend disbelief and delve deeply into the ideas and feelings behind the story. J.G. Ballard, Borges, introductions.
-Borges, "The book of imaginary beings". Discussing the taking of children to zoos. Zoo of reality, zoo of mythology. "The Zoology of dreams is far pooer than the zoology of the Maker."
-Phillip K. Dick, what is reality? what constitutes the authentic human being? "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." A secret love of chaos. Do not assume that order and stability is always good. Before new can be born, old must perish. The viable, elastic organism, that can absorb change; the authentic human being.
NOTES: Different modes emerging. Narrative and non-fiction conceptual exploration. How do our ideas compliment each other or contrast. Film makes us think about theater space as opposed to the literal adapting of a text. Proust- Not sure it makes sense to have something be the core of the show that the rest of the company doesn't fully understand.
Seeking out a richer, fuller text than sci-fi provides.
Jonathan-
- All sources from websites of organizations that do ____________ for a living. The Association of Living History and Farm Agriculture Museums.
-History is always changing, the recent development of "living history". The recreation of particular moments from the past, ignoring modern intrusions.
-Re-enacting ancient battles. Ancient manufacturing techniques. Feasting. Ancient poetry and presenation of literatuer. Socializing.
-Colonial "blop-blop". Only the tourists are out of time and place.
-Shaker historic village. Traditional music, production techniques.
-Aboriginal living skill school in Arizona. Offers well-rounded and honest survival and aborigianl livings skill education.
-History interpreters (=actors). A time in which everday lives were transformed by advances in agriculture and industry.
-Interested in "Future History Museum".
NOTES: Films a good source of images (that can be redefined in a new context). Proust- a well-written text is a golden trump card. A well to return to.
Tarkovsky- Attracted to films as a source of similar moments and themes. Recurring characters, motifs.
Marc-
-Looking for non-fiction work of famous sci-fi/fantasy writers. Intros and prefaces to sci-fi books. Has posted some passages to the blog. Why do artists create off-kilter worlds and scenarios. Accessing the non-ficiton behind sci-fi. Looking for speeches, letters, essays. The corespondance of Phillip K. Dick as he developed "A Scanner Darkly". Interested in hearing writers explain the importance of their works.
-Milan Kundera "The Art of the Novel". What works in fiction and what doesn't. (100 pages long, tries to cover everything).
NOTES: Excited about Proust. It stood out on Sunday. Something of that size would become the 'bible of the show'.
Intros- Short, sweet, could denature the intros and apply them to a different source.
Living History- A re-enactment of the furture.
Jerry-
-Would like to go back to the well. Find a source he is passionate about.
NOTES: Wary of putting to much emphasis on a singular source. Seems harder to use a film (vs. text) to not pull literal moments from the source. Proust provides a wealth of material that brings a freedom to pick and chooses what applies.
Phillip k. Dick- The device of speaking directly to his audience is very performative.
FINAL NOTES:
Building code: 4196. We will try to get someone here 15min early to turn on the heaters. Will prop kitchen door.
Go to googledoc of rehearsal schedule (write in initials for times when you will be present)
If you are more than 10min late call ahead.
Wants to get back into the habit of starting rehearsl at 6pm. Jonathan will be at the space early tomorrow (so will Nick!).
Homework:
Prepare research for a more detailed source discussion this Sunday (3/7). Keep producing etudes from prior notes.
Rehearsal Notes 2/28/10
HOMEWORK for Wednesday:
- NEW ETUDES (MINIMUM 1, NO MAXIMUM!):
tone and form: go after themes bigger bigger bigger! )
THEMES:
1) dream shift - Dreams as a source of otherness, slipping between 'hard reality' and dream reality state. Going and coming back, and it being a transformation AND/OR
2) nature and shadow side of nature
- GIVE A CONCRETE proposal for The Source
+ not a page, not an image, but something more -- each person bring only one thing (a book, a movie, a story, a series of something that you bring in to the room, no talking only, need to have material in room)
Julie will do sci-fi introductions
Faith Tarkovsky & all variations
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SPACE PROJECT REHEARSAL
Sunday, February 28
Milepost 5
Liz, Jonathan, Julie, Faith
Stations: What are we trying to accomplish -- what things stood out from all the materials we went over (limiting is the point: let's talk over what stood out for us)
- ask MARC & MAESIE to comment on what materials stood out
- made us think we want more time to bring in/find more materials in the next week
- no problem with us choosing 5 (rather than 1) to move forward with
What was brought in
- LIZ: 2 books in Wrinkle in Time, History of Senses, Salt history, Womb sounds
- MARC: Heraclitus, Philip K Dick excerpts
- MAESIE: Proust, Little House books, Italo Calvino, Orlando, misc excerpts
- FAITH: Elie Wiesel "Night", Tarokvsky's The Mirror, Amelia by Joni Mitchel
- JONATHAN: text from Victor Hugo, James Turrel & Tate Modern, Solaris
- JULIE: Ecotopia, Intros from Future Primitive Vermillion Sands, At Home in Nature / John Burrows
What stood out
LIZ:
- Victor Hugo -- dreaming; connected to dreaming in Hericlitus; loved -- "daydream, the world of the night is a world, nothing other than the approach of invisible reality
- The Mirror -- the wetness of her hair, mixed with the burning house; senses
- John Burrows -- line about people walking to church, simpleness of everything, if everyone would just walk it would change our universe, increase our senses
- "Night" -- something about it, it is so beautiful & moving
- Ecotopia -- get to choose their own death (like native ameriacans & eskimos)
FAITH:
- surprised by connections between materials
- Calvino -- fascinated by sections that designated a place through symbols, communicating a place through mime and symbols (even after he knew language), pearl with a skull represented something even if it was unexplainable & mysterious; they can speak more strongly than anything else
- Reminded of Sexing the Cherry -- imaginary cities, lost cities coming back to life
- Calvino book on Tarot, connected with Madeline L'Engle books, something on surface which spins out in so many directions, story itself is complicated, but something comforting about faniciful things like unicorns
- Little House on the Prarie -- frontier porn, fetishizing olden days return to nature, back to roots, not frightening; contrast with other visions of nature as an unpredictable force, frightening; looking and desiring something evil in nature
- Ecotopia -- intersting because want to believe
- The Mirror & Solaris -- natural elements are powerful but not understandable; nature linked to dreams linked to supernatural
- Philip K Dick -- creating universes that come unglued, resisting the urge to make things work too well "Sybil with a raging mouth" "the dream is the aquarium of night"
- womb sounds like space
- potential title "Hi-Tech"
- love the Turrel images
- "Night" -- horrific events being source of dream-like narrative, symbolic and mystical being used to describe something horrific
JONATHAN:
- At Home in Nature -- idea that is insane to enjoy rustic life, great sequence of insane people enjoying simple life
- JG Ballard -- introductions as major source, framing device; all sci-fi about the future is about the present
- The Mirror -- so good; if we can make something this good, we've made a masterpiece; dreamlike flow of images and ideas
- Future Primitives -- intrigued by idea of having to believe what we do now influences the future, this is an interesting kind of optimism; humans are last organic form in a de-natured, shiny future
- started thinking about a lot of films: really over the top sci-fi movies
- "Night" -- great and amazing and beautiful and awesome, don't know if it's a good source, but interested in a source that is so other (the Holocaust), where we can find a parallel that is interesting and insightful
- human body as something we are trying to snuff out, power of smell, strenght of senses counteracted with technology
- Proust -- so detailed and working in and out of an image, almost pragmatic while ultra poetic
- Philip K Dick -- "what is reality, when you stop believing in it it doesn't go away" -- don't really like it as reading, but like the philosophy behind it and his writing; shortcut to an idea while avoiding the subject
- journey and frame stories -- Orlando, journey can goes on for 100s of years through many places and one person
JULIE:
- Tarkovsky: love it. Mirror: ideas about images and modes of working, theme of silence & layers, making something so dramatic without lots of noise (physical noise, and distractions). Scene of house collapsing around her, sounds of nature becoming sinister & mysterious. Sound of rain as a calming sound, but also the most evil sound -- everything in nature has a shadow side -- fire is warming but also destroys.
- Elie Wiesel: what happens when you return from another place and nobody believes you. Going someplace else and forgetting where you've come from -- escapism and opposite of escapism. This & Proust -- language so beautiful, exciting to think about using this (nobel prize winning) language.
- Hieroclytus: using treatise as form, a way to organize thoughts into whole. you could read it through and one point was five sentences long, one was one word. a play could have six acts, one act is two minutes long -- as long as the idea you want to tell. Brechtian: tell everything you want to tell... like the idea of having a written treatise for our performance.
- Proust: magical transportation from one place to another via sense memory. Language exquisite, enjoyed reading it on page with space around it. sparse, connected to Tarkovsky -- say things but it's all the white space, things not there, that stand out.
- Invisible Cities: interesting images, contrasted to James Turrell photos. World of super lush nature & foliage. Turrell: light creates immensity & vastness, encouraging playfulness in such a barren setting -- people lying on floor in Tate Modern making snow angels. Encouraging joy in people. Using color to dictate moods, exciting to think about doing things exactly the same way but the lights change.
- Solaris: small gestures -- she takes comb and puts to her lip, connecting with light -- highlight or not highlight certain things. Huge circles of light coming in through windows, strange plastic covered things, doubles and triples and twinning of people. We have powerful tool: 4 women of similar height and build and hair color. Control of destiny, our own & others -- reminded of short story, man on space station: he's about to go home, out repairing something and he hurts his ankle, goes to medical computer and it repairs him and he wakes up but it's not him who wakes up, it's a clone -- finally he realizes that he's been out on this spaceship with endless clones for hundreds of years, recordings of family are from long ago... whoa.
- Womb: natural but sinister. movies: always low level white noise kind of sound.
What didn't get mentioned / CUT:
- Joni Mitchell's Amelia
- Salt
- Orlando (though idea of journey should remain)
- Random text
- Diane Ackerman (though hold onto idea of senses)
- Italo Calvino tarot book
- Little House in the Little Woods / Little Prairie
- Madeleine L'Engle
Common themes more than one person were drawn to / STAY:
- Introductions / philosophies of sci fi -- Philip K Dick & JG Ballard
- Hieroclytus
- Mirror & Solaris (Tarkovsky)
- Proust
- Wiesel, Night
- Victor Hugo excerpt (from Lathe of Heaven)
- James Turrell
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
- Fetishization of rustic life, back to nature (Burroughs, Ecotopia)
HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SOURCE MATERIAL:
FAITH:
- For me, its not a theme or book, but the juxtaposition of several sources around a common thread or theme
- TWO THEMES (FIRST IS also A 'TYPE' OF WORK): (1) philosophy of sci-fi: you are exploring present by exploring future. Creating an imperfect universe as a way to work out humanity's flaws/moving forward. (2) nature and how it is linked as a source of comfort and a shadow side that is destructive/frightening
- the films of Tarkovsky (not just one film)
LIZ:
- Not one source from today that I can go after. Like the the IDEA of having A source.
- TWO THEMES: (1) Calming vs Non Calming, and how they are the same (womb music, most calming for babies yet is a disturbing, ominous sound). (2) Simplicity (Ecotopia desire to get back to simplicity, Proust simplicity in remembering, ease of being able to dream)
JULIE:
- Did not see A SINGLE source that is fascinating and the one...like the idea of having A SOURCE (or two) because...
- ONE THEME: Dreams as a source of otherness, slipping between 'hard reality' and dream reality state. Going and coming back, and it being a transformation.
JONATHAN:
- TWO THEMES: (1) overarching philosophy / description of what you're trying to achieve: introductions of what sci fi is attempting to accomplish -- a genre to explore. (2) Moment in The Mirror when kid calls "Papa!" gets up and walks forward -- weird feeling as a child, world is a magical place -- exploring all levels of that, getting across that feeling that The Mirror so effectively conveys. How do get this feeling in an adult -- put people into that state, slipping between states.
Ways to move forward:
- Keep creating etudes: shed light on subconscious, how we're thinking
- Rev up long form improvs
MUST CHOOSE A WAY TO CREATE, either:
A: Choosing Themes and then going after that/those themes via ANY SOURCE IS OK
B: Rigid Source; One book and one movie for example; (finding the themes)
C: Source that is a (or multiple) 'type' (pop/recorded music) that is mined to chase a certain theme (american patriotism)
JONATHAN: intimidated by holy grail (picking 1-2 sources) but intrigued also. Can't answer this today -- but maybe in future. Not interested in just choosing themes -- sooner we get to decision on sources, sooner we can get to creating better work.
LIZ: in total agreement with Jonathan. With boundary able to go further. Almost too much right now.
JULIE: agrees. people find pleasure in doing plays because so much is set already but you get to design lots of things. More drawn to one set source. We're all on so many pages, too many ideas right now.
FAITH: room for lots of things to be in the show even if it isn't our main source material. Doesn't need to be THE SOURCE. would love to have one or two perhaps juxtaposing sources, drawn to it; tricky thing about finding a source at this point is this type of single source is often the inspiration for making the show; would love to do one source, but think it might make more sense to do a hybrid;
All in agreement that we want a source, but is that source a book, OR a book & a movie, OR a series of books, or ? ? ?
Today's ideas the name of the show:
"Hi-Tech"
"As yet untitled Space Show" / As yet untitled show about about space
- NEW ETUDES (MINIMUM 1, NO MAXIMUM!):
tone and form: go after themes bigger bigger bigger! )
THEMES:
1) dream shift - Dreams as a source of otherness, slipping between 'hard reality' and dream reality state. Going and coming back, and it being a transformation AND/OR
2) nature and shadow side of nature
- GIVE A CONCRETE proposal for The Source
+ not a page, not an image, but something more -- each person bring only one thing (a book, a movie, a story, a series of something that you bring in to the room, no talking only, need to have material in room)
Julie will do sci-fi introductions
Faith Tarkovsky & all variations
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SPACE PROJECT REHEARSAL
Sunday, February 28
Milepost 5
Liz, Jonathan, Julie, Faith
Stations: What are we trying to accomplish -- what things stood out from all the materials we went over (limiting is the point: let's talk over what stood out for us)
- ask MARC & MAESIE to comment on what materials stood out
- made us think we want more time to bring in/find more materials in the next week
- no problem with us choosing 5 (rather than 1) to move forward with
What was brought in
- LIZ: 2 books in Wrinkle in Time, History of Senses, Salt history, Womb sounds
- MARC: Heraclitus, Philip K Dick excerpts
- MAESIE: Proust, Little House books, Italo Calvino, Orlando, misc excerpts
- FAITH: Elie Wiesel "Night", Tarokvsky's The Mirror, Amelia by Joni Mitchel
- JONATHAN: text from Victor Hugo, James Turrel & Tate Modern, Solaris
- JULIE: Ecotopia, Intros from Future Primitive Vermillion Sands, At Home in Nature / John Burrows
What stood out
LIZ:
- Victor Hugo -- dreaming; connected to dreaming in Hericlitus; loved -- "daydream, the world of the night is a world, nothing other than the approach of invisible reality
- The Mirror -- the wetness of her hair, mixed with the burning house; senses
- John Burrows -- line about people walking to church, simpleness of everything, if everyone would just walk it would change our universe, increase our senses
- "Night" -- something about it, it is so beautiful & moving
- Ecotopia -- get to choose their own death (like native ameriacans & eskimos)
FAITH:
- surprised by connections between materials
- Calvino -- fascinated by sections that designated a place through symbols, communicating a place through mime and symbols (even after he knew language), pearl with a skull represented something even if it was unexplainable & mysterious; they can speak more strongly than anything else
- Reminded of Sexing the Cherry -- imaginary cities, lost cities coming back to life
- Calvino book on Tarot, connected with Madeline L'Engle books, something on surface which spins out in so many directions, story itself is complicated, but something comforting about faniciful things like unicorns
- Little House on the Prarie -- frontier porn, fetishizing olden days return to nature, back to roots, not frightening; contrast with other visions of nature as an unpredictable force, frightening; looking and desiring something evil in nature
- Ecotopia -- intersting because want to believe
- The Mirror & Solaris -- natural elements are powerful but not understandable; nature linked to dreams linked to supernatural
- Philip K Dick -- creating universes that come unglued, resisting the urge to make things work too well "Sybil with a raging mouth" "the dream is the aquarium of night"
- womb sounds like space
- potential title "Hi-Tech"
- love the Turrel images
- "Night" -- horrific events being source of dream-like narrative, symbolic and mystical being used to describe something horrific
JONATHAN:
- At Home in Nature -- idea that is insane to enjoy rustic life, great sequence of insane people enjoying simple life
- JG Ballard -- introductions as major source, framing device; all sci-fi about the future is about the present
- The Mirror -- so good; if we can make something this good, we've made a masterpiece; dreamlike flow of images and ideas
- Future Primitives -- intrigued by idea of having to believe what we do now influences the future, this is an interesting kind of optimism; humans are last organic form in a de-natured, shiny future
- started thinking about a lot of films: really over the top sci-fi movies
- "Night" -- great and amazing and beautiful and awesome, don't know if it's a good source, but interested in a source that is so other (the Holocaust), where we can find a parallel that is interesting and insightful
- human body as something we are trying to snuff out, power of smell, strenght of senses counteracted with technology
- Proust -- so detailed and working in and out of an image, almost pragmatic while ultra poetic
- Philip K Dick -- "what is reality, when you stop believing in it it doesn't go away" -- don't really like it as reading, but like the philosophy behind it and his writing; shortcut to an idea while avoiding the subject
- journey and frame stories -- Orlando, journey can goes on for 100s of years through many places and one person
JULIE:
- Tarkovsky: love it. Mirror: ideas about images and modes of working, theme of silence & layers, making something so dramatic without lots of noise (physical noise, and distractions). Scene of house collapsing around her, sounds of nature becoming sinister & mysterious. Sound of rain as a calming sound, but also the most evil sound -- everything in nature has a shadow side -- fire is warming but also destroys.
- Elie Wiesel: what happens when you return from another place and nobody believes you. Going someplace else and forgetting where you've come from -- escapism and opposite of escapism. This & Proust -- language so beautiful, exciting to think about using this (nobel prize winning) language.
- Hieroclytus: using treatise as form, a way to organize thoughts into whole. you could read it through and one point was five sentences long, one was one word. a play could have six acts, one act is two minutes long -- as long as the idea you want to tell. Brechtian: tell everything you want to tell... like the idea of having a written treatise for our performance.
- Proust: magical transportation from one place to another via sense memory. Language exquisite, enjoyed reading it on page with space around it. sparse, connected to Tarkovsky -- say things but it's all the white space, things not there, that stand out.
- Invisible Cities: interesting images, contrasted to James Turrell photos. World of super lush nature & foliage. Turrell: light creates immensity & vastness, encouraging playfulness in such a barren setting -- people lying on floor in Tate Modern making snow angels. Encouraging joy in people. Using color to dictate moods, exciting to think about doing things exactly the same way but the lights change.
- Solaris: small gestures -- she takes comb and puts to her lip, connecting with light -- highlight or not highlight certain things. Huge circles of light coming in through windows, strange plastic covered things, doubles and triples and twinning of people. We have powerful tool: 4 women of similar height and build and hair color. Control of destiny, our own & others -- reminded of short story, man on space station: he's about to go home, out repairing something and he hurts his ankle, goes to medical computer and it repairs him and he wakes up but it's not him who wakes up, it's a clone -- finally he realizes that he's been out on this spaceship with endless clones for hundreds of years, recordings of family are from long ago... whoa.
- Womb: natural but sinister. movies: always low level white noise kind of sound.
What didn't get mentioned / CUT:
- Joni Mitchell's Amelia
- Salt
- Orlando (though idea of journey should remain)
- Random text
- Diane Ackerman (though hold onto idea of senses)
- Italo Calvino tarot book
- Little House in the Little Woods / Little Prairie
- Madeleine L'Engle
Common themes more than one person were drawn to / STAY:
- Introductions / philosophies of sci fi -- Philip K Dick & JG Ballard
- Hieroclytus
- Mirror & Solaris (Tarkovsky)
- Proust
- Wiesel, Night
- Victor Hugo excerpt (from Lathe of Heaven)
- James Turrell
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
- Fetishization of rustic life, back to nature (Burroughs, Ecotopia)
HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SOURCE MATERIAL:
FAITH:
- For me, its not a theme or book, but the juxtaposition of several sources around a common thread or theme
- TWO THEMES (FIRST IS also A 'TYPE' OF WORK): (1) philosophy of sci-fi: you are exploring present by exploring future. Creating an imperfect universe as a way to work out humanity's flaws/moving forward. (2) nature and how it is linked as a source of comfort and a shadow side that is destructive/frightening
- the films of Tarkovsky (not just one film)
LIZ:
- Not one source from today that I can go after. Like the the IDEA of having A source.
- TWO THEMES: (1) Calming vs Non Calming, and how they are the same (womb music, most calming for babies yet is a disturbing, ominous sound). (2) Simplicity (Ecotopia desire to get back to simplicity, Proust simplicity in remembering, ease of being able to dream)
JULIE:
- Did not see A SINGLE source that is fascinating and the one...like the idea of having A SOURCE (or two) because...
- ONE THEME: Dreams as a source of otherness, slipping between 'hard reality' and dream reality state. Going and coming back, and it being a transformation.
JONATHAN:
- TWO THEMES: (1) overarching philosophy / description of what you're trying to achieve: introductions of what sci fi is attempting to accomplish -- a genre to explore. (2) Moment in The Mirror when kid calls "Papa!" gets up and walks forward -- weird feeling as a child, world is a magical place -- exploring all levels of that, getting across that feeling that The Mirror so effectively conveys. How do get this feeling in an adult -- put people into that state, slipping between states.
Ways to move forward:
- Keep creating etudes: shed light on subconscious, how we're thinking
- Rev up long form improvs
MUST CHOOSE A WAY TO CREATE, either:
A: Choosing Themes and then going after that/those themes via ANY SOURCE IS OK
B: Rigid Source; One book and one movie for example; (finding the themes)
C: Source that is a (or multiple) 'type' (pop/recorded music) that is mined to chase a certain theme (american patriotism)
JONATHAN: intimidated by holy grail (picking 1-2 sources) but intrigued also. Can't answer this today -- but maybe in future. Not interested in just choosing themes -- sooner we get to decision on sources, sooner we can get to creating better work.
LIZ: in total agreement with Jonathan. With boundary able to go further. Almost too much right now.
JULIE: agrees. people find pleasure in doing plays because so much is set already but you get to design lots of things. More drawn to one set source. We're all on so many pages, too many ideas right now.
FAITH: room for lots of things to be in the show even if it isn't our main source material. Doesn't need to be THE SOURCE. would love to have one or two perhaps juxtaposing sources, drawn to it; tricky thing about finding a source at this point is this type of single source is often the inspiration for making the show; would love to do one source, but think it might make more sense to do a hybrid;
All in agreement that we want a source, but is that source a book, OR a book & a movie, OR a series of books, or ? ? ?
Today's ideas the name of the show:
"Hi-Tech"
"As yet untitled Space Show" / As yet untitled show about about space
