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Our project is not just an installation, but also involves a performance piece. The installation itself takes place in the Basement room of Mereien Strasse 5, where its floors will be covered with fine ash sculpted to look like the lunar surface. The archway in the room is covered and shaped into a crescent where luminescent blue light, represents a lunar earth-rise. | Our project is not just an installation, but also involves a performance piece. The installation itself takes place in the Basement room of Mereien Strasse 5, where its floors will be covered with fine ash sculpted to look like the lunar surface. The archway in the room is covered and shaped into a crescent where luminescent blue light, represents a lunar earth-rise. | ||
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Image:Moondust1.jpg|Moondust | |||
Image:Archway.jpg|The Room | |||
Image:Roomproject1512.jpg|Most Current Idea Sketch | |||
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===Performance=== | |||
Our concept behind the performance stems from the three Chinese moon myths Chang’e, Wu Gang, and the Jade rabbit. These roles shall be played out in our rendition, influenced not only by the space but also from our perception of these characters in contrast to modern moon missions. | |||
The performance features the three Chinese mythological characters representing the Chinese moon mythology. The costumes and actions are stylized and simplified through our artistic rendition of their stories influenced by current events, mainly the discovery of water on the moon. | |||
Their actions are slow and elegant as if they move at half speed. Their movements are defined by their characters, such as the chopping of the uncuttable tree, the mulling of the mortar, and the morning of Chang’e. The actors pantomime the gestures, and the sound is then played into the space. | |||
The performance will last around an hour, with the chance for people to come and view the performance on the opening day of our installation. These roles will be played by Chinese students here in Weimar. | |||
The room where we plan on creating our installation and making the performance in, is located under Merienstraße 5, at the end of a long corridor. One enters the room after making a turn down a corridor, and has to step into the space. The room features high ceilings with pipes, cement floors, and an archway | |||
to a small alcove. | |||
We plan on working with the rooms unique architectural elements, such as the archway. We plan on blocking off the alcove and turning the bottom part of the archway into a horizontal crescent light. We plan on covering up a few of the rooms features, such as the piping and the circuit box with dark fabric so that these unnecessary elements do not interfere with the experience. | |||
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