Somatic and Aesthetic Dramaturgies.
Autor
Datum obhajoby
2023-09-14
Fakulta
Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta
Katedra
Kat. alternativního a lout. divadla
Typ práce
Diplomová práce
Vedoucí
Oponent
Podnázev
devising dialogues between bodies and performative textiles through design practices
Abstrakt
This thesis is about the research Human Creatures that I have been developing since
2019, about creating dialogues between costumes and people’s bodies, through the
application of somatic practices. The text navigates between a description and
analysis of the projects I did during my Master's studies, my interest in the body
(biological and cultural studies), the redesign of it through performative costumes and
masks, and the acknowledging of the potentials of visual thinking to make
performance by rethinking design processes. In the chapters I describe the material
produced during the research process of Human Creatures, which was quite
extensive allowing me to explore different performative formats, with the same
conceptual intentions and aesthetic decisions. I also analyse different reviews and
feedback that was given to me during presentations in Prague, Czech Republic;
Ljubljana, Slovenia and Rimini, Italy. The two main performances are Fasciarium
(Lat.Fascia: Connective Tissue), a participatory laboratory where people are invited
to transform their bodies through costumes, by reflecting on their body stories and
giving themselves space to release, celebrate and dance. The second is a
performative lecture Anamorphosis, a monologue in which I open publicly intimate
body stories while I transform my appearance with objects. The projects’ insights and
processes are not presented chronologically but according to the concepts and
methods that I was developing to understand different ways in which costumes are
tools to transform identity and appearance.
The document examines dramaturgical methodologies I explore for directing
performance, from my knowledge in design practices, especially textile design, and
from my interest in the human body as an object and as a subject. My methodology
includes the combination of concepts and processes that I have used as art director
for theatre, but this time giving them performative agency. Likewise, I incorporate into
this research, relations I find between how science studies the body and how it can
be interpreted in art, an analysis of how we see our own bodies and how we see
others according to body culture, and a reflection on how costume and mask are
powerful tools to determine, hide or transform identity. I associate my practical results
with theory that have been inspiring me, as well as with other performance and
artistic projects that I watched and met along the way.
Popis
Klíčová slova
performativní textilie, synergie, anatomie člověka, emoce