Week 3
Scene / Sequence / Narrative

This week has been a phrase of summarizing, revising and refining the materials we had explored through-out the first two weeks. Nevertheless, it has been a process of questioning ourselves where we position the performing bodies in space, and how shadows could be a representation of form or a tool of communication.

Would the message we would like to deliver be distorted within the audience?

 

As mentioned earlier, the narrative is performed by two bodies; resembling the physical and the subconscious. Meanwhile, one could read these two tangling relationships as mother and child, giving birth and growth. But at a certain point, this could also be read as the lower and the holy on an altar, or the Master and the student.

 

Based on the settings similar to traditional shadow theater, we had integrated  modern techniques of digital shadows, with the use of a kinect camera, a representation of what really exists in the confine of the stage settings, but never has the character appears in before the audiences' eyes.

 

We had also questioned how emotions could be transported in the form of a flattened two dimensional silhouette, and how the audience with multiple backgrounds could interpret the narratives differently from the perspective of a Thai.