THE CONCEPT STORE FOR ARTISTIC STRATEGIES

Dramaturgy & storytelling as a design practice

My new website is in the air. I created a context from where I'm going to keep on researching craftsmanship of dramaturgy & design into other fields of society. It's an invitation to co-create with me to define new ways of working to improve our stories that enrich communities and environment. 

I made an animation film the past 4 months together with animator Linde van Dijk. This way I created my mission statement and the framework for the Concept Store for Artistic Strategies. This was a research trajectory in itself. 

The film represents a practice-led research translated in storytelling methods. I considered my professional background and explored the potential of skills and craft to transfer into a more universal perspective, crossing different work areas and verbalizing new goals of creation for contemporary society. 

I started from my own sources, my own intentions, which makes this study rather subjective. But the context of this authentic study subject is addressed as well in a larger discourse of theory and practice as well. 

Check the film to see the story and the new starting point for research. Or visit the website www.motionterritory.com




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Expanding Dramaturgy in Practice

Image
A Series of Quotes Explained My original craft comes from dramaturgy. I have studied and practiced traditional dramaturgy in theatre for over 12 years. I have been dramaturg in more than 15 productions, I gave dramaturgic introductions on performances, interviewed choreographers and studied dramaturgic subjects. In my career it became clear though that dramaturgy meant more to me than just a traditional craft to perform. Dramaturgy is a mindset, a perspective on how things work and how to move within your surrounding. The cross-over practice of dramaturgy is my main source to study how art-based practice can inspire us outside the making of art.  Observing the global system followed by zooming into the detailed experiences we have. Many scientists, theorists, artists and dramaturges write about those expanding practices of dramaturgy. The following blog posts honor some of those definitions on dramaturgy. The quotes have inspired me or triggered me to develop my own practice. I&
Read more

Reconsidering Purpose, Art and Performance

Statement 2: On Contemporary Dramaturgy Anton Chekhov put it best when he said, ‘If a pistol appears in a story, eventually it’s got to be fired.’ (…) What Chekhov was getting at is this: necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn’t play a role shouldn’t exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That’s what you call dramaturgy. Logic, morals or meaning don’t have anything to do with it. It’s all a question of relationality. Chekhov understood dramaturgy very well. (Murakami, Haruki, Kafka on the shore . London: Vintage, Random House, 2005. p. 376). When art-based practice teaches us to think In a time of a pandemic the concept of necessity in performance becomes more urgent. On the one hand you want necessity to be present in your life as a compass for living. But at the same time in lockdown you have to deal with a lack of necessity give
Read more

STORYTELLING AND PERCEIVING TRUTH

Image
How the choice for words matters I find this film a great example of how the choice for language defines what we believe and become our truth. It does remind me of my studies in theatre analysis at Utrecht University, where we discussed meaning by relational signs. These could be words, gestures, props, light cues, costumes and more. But in the film they bring it back to the choice of your words only. Check it before reading further:   In the analytical theory of semiotics is seen as schemes of signs, singular parts of objective information that get meaning by its relation to time and space. And the moment it becomes meaningful for someone was the tricky part. There, always a subjective component played a role in understanding what someone had seen or becoming attached or offended by words, gestures and scenes. And this theorietic concept that was used to understand art is also important when you communicate your own expressions.  This film fragment emphasizes the me
Read more