Getting Lost in a Sea of Air
Datum obhajoby
2024-09-13 00:00:00.0
Fakulta
Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta
Katedra
Kat. alternativního a lout. divadla
Typ práce
Diplomová práce
Vedoucí
Oponent
Podnázev
Abstrakt
Eclectically drawing upon literature and art works from various fields, in this thesis I reflect upon and contextualise the process of devising respectively my first-year performance and my final performance in MA DOT: The River Creature and The Peculiar Prague Pigeon Post Performance with Pipes. In both performances, albeit in very different ways, I search for something amorphous and unknown, something that keeps escaping me and that can only be perceived as signs and traces, but never in its entirety. Starting from the shared topic of search, I explore the effects (dramaturgical, performative and thematic) that the search itself produces and how these effects influence my method of devising and the performances themselves. Through the search, then, I study the relationships between many opposite concepts such as chance and control, reality and fiction, forward process-orientedness and backward sense-making, failure and success, trust and distrust, absence and presence, object and subject and how they behave in and influence my particular process of devising. Working with the opposites in the search, I propose - and remind myself - to always add an order-resisting and duality-blurring bug to the performance-machine. I argue that only by creating a new (performative) language of irrational signs, the amorphous - or the fictional within the real - can peek out; only by deliberately placing a bug, one can embrace and maybe create the amorphous.
Popis
Klíčová slova
devised divadlo, objekty (umění), znaky, skutečnost, fikce