After doing the freewrite, I got completely stuck- BECAUSE the concept that emerged for the assignment was one that I could not technically execute as a study.
So here I wrote out the scenario I start from. This round, I guess is more a request for brainstorming than feedback :)
Scenario 1
Background: Sruti box
After some time:
voice over: English translation of a PADAM- it should be
obvious from the narration that it is a translation (i.e. searching for words)-
I am still looking for one. Have been playing with “Don’t you know my house”
for now. But its not ideal.
In the middle of the stage there is a wall of bricks
(loosely) stacked on top of each other – about 4 feet wide and 5 feet tall
As the voice over can be heard, a hand, from behind the
“wall” is carefully pushing at one of the bricks, until it falls down to the
front, leaving a whole in the wall.
The whole thing happens very gradually.
A second brick is gently gradually pushed out in a similar
way.
It falls, leaving a gap.
The hands reach through, bending up, exploring the wall
where a face would be.
They gradually start including hastas in their exploration
of the wall, which start coinciding with the recited Padam.
As the hands keep exploring the wall, interjected with
hastas they start manipulating the bricks, until one can be lifted off the top
of the wall.
The focus of the hands shifts away from exploring the wall,
now trying to dismantle it. This has to be done with great care. The difficulty
should be visible.
For now I see the end of this during the dismantling.
THIS IS JUST AN IMAGE that came to me.
Feedback questions:
11) What does this image suggest to you? What are
your associations?
22) Do you have suggestions on how to transform this
idea into a video/performance score that actually “doable” at this experimental
stage?
a.
If this were a video, do you have suggestions on
approaches to shoot it/angles to pursue it?
b.
If this were live, playing with props, do you
have suggestions on approaches to pursue it?
33) Any other thoughts?
