ΠΡΟΤΑΣΕΙΣ ΧΩΡΙΚΗΣ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΣ
ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΜΠΕΝΑΚΗ
ΒΑΣΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΣΤΗ ΣΧΕΣΗ ΤΟΥ LOCUS SOLUS
ΒΑΣΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΣΤΗ ΣΧΕΣΗ ΤΟΥ LOCUS SOLUS
ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΔΟΜΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΥΕΔΡΩΝ
As an ongoing three-year practice based research project, Locus Solus is transformed every time it is presented. These shifts are used as a scenografic practice that generates critical points of view, concerning scenographic materials, these site-responsive works challenge the working practices of set, costume, lighting, sound and video designers.
The first presentation of this modular project took place in London in April 2009 at the Shunt Vaults. The production sought to present issues involving private (solitary) and public space hence it dealt with space, in terms of its physical transformation, through the movement of both the spectators and the performers. The overall effect was a live exhibition. These procedural acoustic and visual installations were constructed by the architects, the visual artists and the scenographers remained "in situ," and were only transformed during the interaction with the performers for the actual performance.
The final stage of the project involves experimentation with the use of space and digital media, based on geometry and Roussel’s fascination with it. The notion of "Spaces within Spaces," as an architectural and scenographic material, in conjunction with spatial research into the notion of the “mise en abyme,” are investigated in Locus Solus, with regard to their relationship with the Platonic solids. In the visual arts, a containment of an entity within another identical entity or when an image is placed into itself repetively, image of an image creates the effect of “mise en abyme” which literally means "to put something into infinity," the same is applicable in narration, when a story is told within a story. As a scenographic material, the Platonic solids can generate an analogous effect. In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron that is regular, in the sense of a regular polygon. Specifically, the faces of a Platonic solid are congruent regular polygons, with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex; thus, all its edges are congruent, as are its vertices and angles. There are five Platonic solids Tetrahedron, Cube of Hexahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron.
- Platonic Solids, Designed by P. S Group -
By entering the platonic solids (rooms), the viewers go through Canterel’s world, the form of their promenade is based on the palindromic structure, a form similar to the labyrinth. The objects-marvels on tour expose themselves, gradually, to the viewer. Danton’s head is followed by a small dirigible called the ‘demoiselle’, with several delicate instruments attached, African mud sculptures lead to a hoard of teeth in a range of colors, and a half-finished mosaic. By entering the physical boundaries of the Platonic solids, in the spaces within spaces, the threshold between reality and illusion is expanded, perception shifts. These marvels might be real or light rays bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects, everything is at a standstill, yet everything is always happening all over again [1].
[1] See Alain Robbe-Grillet in Ashbery, John. Other Traditions. Harvard University Press, 2000: 67.
- P. S Group: L. Dima, Z. Langi, Y. Noukakis, D. Stamatiou -
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