Looking for alternatives to the VR/AR exhibiton platforms that we're awash with thses days. Came across the ‘mailbox’ theatre - a name which conjures up notions of performances not too far, figuratively or literally, from the kitchen sink . The reality is probably much different, and likely more interesting than you’d expect…
“We intentionally created small holes and slots resembling mailbox slots,” said Nobuyoshi Asai, the theatre’s artistic director and choreographer, explaining how limiting the scope of viewing allows the audience to become more absorbed in the performance.
Looks to be a brilliantly creative solution to the problems of a socially distanced audience. One which ot only addresses the problem, but which adds immensly to the viwer expericence. the boothes could easliy have a perspec screen rather than mailbox slots and peepholes, and would have provided a completely differnt, more mundane, and argualbly less singualr experience.
the whole idea ties in with with my own interests of views, framing, and stageing of a given scene (hinted at in earlier posts). It also reminded me a curious installation in Stoke. One which, at the time, I avoided lest it be an elaborate prank.
https://staffslive.co.uk/2016/10/40ft-long-art-exhibition-takes-over-part-of-city-centre/
…the miniature model village set somewhere in Bedfordshire, where only the police and media teams remain in an otherwise deserted, wrecked and dislocated land.
The huge crate – known as ‘The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP)’ – is located outside the gallery, on Broad Street, next to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Huge in size, with an array of strange noises, and a mass of graffiti that responds to each of the 36 historical riot sites that it visits, it’ll reach its final destination in Bedford on Christmas Day.
5 outsoaring. ~ % and its
‘The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP)’
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Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Dislocation Principle