the audience
We have been discussing our intentions. We have been posting our research ideas. We have been ellaborating what we want to express. It is subjective and it will be still once we have established what the audience should perceive and consider. Inevitably we are individuals making work that we would like to see. That we want to give birth to. However, even if this question, when answered, remains somewhat in a subjective level, it must be asked, for it will determine our choices. If I could I would give all my favourite poetryfor each person I love to read, and yet would it make sense for that or would it be just too much, too diverse, may be each project is the choice of one poetry, one intention, one author...
Lizzy and I have had many ideas, beautiful ideas, visual and conceptual, however, in order to examine their relevance we must know what we want our audience to experience. I would answer this question by writing that they should experience what we experienced when we read The Invisible Cities. Our experience is the core of our choice to use this book. As I see it, we chose this book because it reflected in some way our relationship of foreigner and native, our exchange of experience, but most of all because it questions how much of the present is real, how much it is modified by past experiences; it questions how much of one place can be modified by the outside (the surroundings) and how our perception of the other place changes as we share it through thoughts, through words, from the present space.
I would like the audience to walk through the garden and consider what is present in that space, what has been seen on the way there and in which way these experiences change their experience of the garden as well as, once they leave, how much of the garden will affect their journey back home, or wherever they go. I believe what we want the audience to experience is contained in a conversation that Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo have in the garden. That conversation is the starting point and it will be given to our audience. The duality of inside the garden and everywhere else, all that is not in that present space, is what they should consider as they walk through bushes, under trees and hear of journeys to foreign land. This should also be experienced through a character which is present everywhere but which in reality, is never physically there.
We have been discussing our intentions. We have been posting our research ideas. We have been ellaborating what we want to express. It is subjective and it will be still once we have established what the audience should perceive and consider. Inevitably we are individuals making work that we would like to see. That we want to give birth to. However, even if this question, when answered, remains somewhat in a subjective level, it must be asked, for it will determine our choices. If I could I would give all my favourite poetryfor each person I love to read, and yet would it make sense for that or would it be just too much, too diverse, may be each project is the choice of one poetry, one intention, one author...
Lizzy and I have had many ideas, beautiful ideas, visual and conceptual, however, in order to examine their relevance we must know what we want our audience to experience. I would answer this question by writing that they should experience what we experienced when we read The Invisible Cities. Our experience is the core of our choice to use this book. As I see it, we chose this book because it reflected in some way our relationship of foreigner and native, our exchange of experience, but most of all because it questions how much of the present is real, how much it is modified by past experiences; it questions how much of one place can be modified by the outside (the surroundings) and how our perception of the other place changes as we share it through thoughts, through words, from the present space.
I would like the audience to walk through the garden and consider what is present in that space, what has been seen on the way there and in which way these experiences change their experience of the garden as well as, once they leave, how much of the garden will affect their journey back home, or wherever they go. I believe what we want the audience to experience is contained in a conversation that Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo have in the garden. That conversation is the starting point and it will be given to our audience. The duality of inside the garden and everywhere else, all that is not in that present space, is what they should consider as they walk through bushes, under trees and hear of journeys to foreign land. This should also be experienced through a character which is present everywhere but which in reality, is never physically there.
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