2008년 3월 18일 화요일

2. Truth-Seeker's Allowance: Digitising Artaud - Steven Dixon

The Chameleons Group is established in 1994 and has toured internationally with innovative 'film-theatre' productions where live actors work in front of large video screens, interacting with film characters and their own recorded 'doubles', and appear to move from the stage to the screen space. The company has produced two award-winning CD-ROMs analysing their work, and has also created high-tech interactive performances for the internet.

The separate ontologies of film and theatre
Audience orientations when experiencing the two forms are quite different since theatre has an inherent falsity acknowledged by all - 'dramatic illusion is nver.. the illusion of reality; it is always imaginative illusion whereas film purports to truth.

The author described the darker aspects of Artaudian theater containing elements such as eroticism, cruelty, the taste for blood, obsession with the horrible, dissolution of moral values, social hypocrisy, lies, false witness, sadism, perversity. There are much of comedy factor in the play of the Chameleons 4.
Humour serves as one of the most direct routes to audience response. Through humor becomes the audience more engaged and drawn to the scene.
Artaud propounds radical theories on the disruptive and transformative potential of what he calls ‘the power of physical and anarchic dissociation in laughter’

The femme fatale accuses the devil for inappropriately staring at her breasts..
As he protests his innocence, she walks around him on the stage shouting angrily, and finally kneels down in front of him with her back to the audience. Her movements are mirrored in a reverse on the screen and mid-shot of her face and torso are facing the audience. ‘Is that what you want to see’, she says as she simultaneously pulls down the front of her dress on the stage, where wee see her back and her breast on the screen...,

Bodies without Bodies - Susan Melrose

I'll write a summary of this chapter after reading it again.

2008년 3월 6일 목요일

The chapter 11...

the chapter 11 would be my prefered one. But if it would not be available, then I'll take the chapter 2 or 5.