Phase Lapse: the program

phase lapse:towards the end//a bit more

Phase lapse is coming to it's end//meaning the actual performance.... The sound is finally ready after the last editing of it, using the sound system of the space. The previous post is the poster of the performance made by Ersi Giannoulatou, that dealt with our graphic layout (poster and program)  and we are about to print those!!!

The (final) rehearsals take place now and they are going well. Although there are many difficulties along the way we try to keep the hole performance as simple as possible while dealing with the dramaturgy because after all we are still designers... The only thing that is really obvious out of this project is that sometimes simplicity and minimalism can be much more complicated than it is expected... Anyway.. two more days to go and we are all waiting to face the final result...

phase lapse:towards the end

about Ambient Noise

Today was the first day of our group performances in the T.V. studio and I think that we had a good and strong start with Ambient Noise.  Although the performance was short I found it well constructed and nicely balanced between the parts that it had. The starting of it was the part I loved the most as the use of the space "between" the theatre spaces worked really well along with the darkness the sounds and the lights and it really gave me that feeling of been somewhere that time stops and I am powerless to change it. The feeling of been helpless and in captivity, really close with people that I didn't want to have close went on during the play and was very successful. I was really amazed by the sound and found really useful the masks on the wall connected to the headphones. each one of these gave me another aspect of the same situation without been extremely descriptive. What I found a bit inconvenient, was the space itself, because it was extremely limited and it was not very clear or easy for the audience to reach and use the masks on the wall. Another aspect that made me thoughtful as well was the use of the military adverts because I don't know if they made you for or against war after all... I think that most of us would think that they were used as against but in the end their main purpose is to persuade people to go to the army, so I think that someone that might not share my against was ideas would see them probably he could be affected on the other way... And finally a funny comment! I really loved the falling apple and actually it almost fell on the head of someone next to me and I thought "this IS interactive"!!!

p#000 the final project

I am about to start working with the video artists on the video that I am going to use for my final project. For this reason, in order to be able to communicate my ideas, feelings and color palette I created a series of images indicating what I want. In one of those I used an actual photo of the performer that is going to appear on the video, Vassiliki Andreou. There are some of them!

rehearsals...

Last week Martina and I started rehearsing for the group project (from now on I will refer to it as Phase Lapse). I think we were both happy about the fact that finally we have a place and some time devoted to the exploration and the development of this idea we are working on. I have a positive feeling about the final result of these, although I am happy because from the first two rehearsals we managed to  understand what the difficulties will be and what are the differences between the ways we have both worked up to now. Now what remains is to find a common language of communication for the technical matters and of course spend lot of time rehearsing!!!

the evening news

Hello,

as you might understood things don't move and progress that fast. Especially when you have to co-operate with many people and you have to organize them all. Anyway I am still happy with how my two projects are going. About the group project: We still communicate in an wonderful way between the group, something that makes everyone work happily and relaxed believing that we can have a good result in the end. The video is ready to be edited, we need some more sound recordings (and this is a bit tricky because people from different places have to do them, sent them either to us or to the person that agreed to work with me on the mix of the sound),tomorrow even it's a bit late (but we are still fine) we practically start rehearsing and building the play and we are gathering all the visual material to sent it to our graphic designer (it happens to be the person that I am co-operating all the time, my sister,) in order to start working on our poster! Oh! and the most important! We have a name: Phase Lapse! I think it's great! What is your opinion?

About p001 I admit that I am maybe a bit behind because I set my priorities and up to the 2 of April I have to work for Phase Lapse and of course my critical studies essay. But, it's not that I am doing nothing.... Actually I am very satisfied because soon I will have in my hands the light I want to use (the so called breathing light) that unfortunately won't be as automatic as I wanted it to be but I will compromise I think with the manual use of it... The other think I am working on is to combine p001 and p002 witch means to present a video as well. I don't know yet. I think that during the next week I will start working on a model box as well...

These are the news for now and of course just the important ones!  

A Visit to the Hayward Gallery

Yesterday I visited the Hayward Gallery. It was a nice experience. To be honest most of the times I find myself extremely board in the gallery spaces and this is a reason why I never comment about visits like that. But this time I have to admit that the exhibitions attracted my attention.

The exhibitions where two. The first one was Annette Messenger's : The Messengers and was an overview of her work - from drawings to big sculptural installations- of the past 15 years. What amazed me in this exhibition was the use of the materials and the mechanics of some of the installations and the fact that I found that they were working very nice with the space given to them. 

The second one was The Russian Linesman curated by Mark Wallinger. Honestly this one is one of the exhibitions that you hear many good things about and I personally can not understand the reason why. I found the most of it indifferent. The curation was clever in a way, but for a reason I wanted to run away. Of course maybe this was part of the idea....! Anyway, only reason why I spent more than half an hour in this exhibition was one of the artworks, witch was the main reason why I visited the Hayward from the begging, the Mark Wallinger Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, 2001( the one you can see in the photograph). This was a Tardis (if anyone is familiar with the sci-fi BBC series Doctor Who will understand what a Tardis is...) made from reflective material. As at this point I am extremely interested in the use of reflective materials and the optical illusion they create to the spectator an in the same time as I am a big fun of sci-fi anything, I spent lots of time observing the art work. My conclusion about it was that is was not working well with the space. The illusion was nice but the wooden floor under it was not helping at all... at least for me and my perception of the usage of reflective materials in a space... maybe the artists intentions was fulfilled. Nevertheless it is nice to observe how each artist can use the same material.... Let's see how I am going to use it now!

Coming up with a title for the group project

Calling our play just group project is boring. So we thought we have to come up with a title for that. Since the text we use is a mixture from more than one different texts we have to create our own title. These are some of my ideas along with their explanations!1. Transition

2. Transition point (a term from thermodynamics means transformation of an element from one phase to another ie water to vapor)

3. Lapse

4. Time-lapse not stop-motion (time lapse= a cinematography technique where the image appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing / stop motion = animation technique when you make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own)

5. Passing

6. Round trip

7. Round Trip (Time) (used for telecommunications as RTT = the elapsed time for transit of signal over a closed circuit, it is significant in systems that require two-way "interactive" communication such as voice telephony).

Now I am waiting from the other member of the group to com eup with possible titles so that we can conclude somewhere!