01-Theater set-design concept
The dancers are stretching the tape around the columns,
tracing the choreography with a transparent tape. The
result is some kind of "tape recording", a map of
movements of the dancers. The other benefit of the
concept is the overcoming of gravity through the
production of second dance floor. The primary recording
structure becomes the underlaying surface of the
subsequent recording. The catharsis of the play can be
achieved by cutting and later contraction of the structure
into amorphous accumulation of crumpled tape.
02-Installation
19 cardboard tubes_118 roles of scotch tape=7788 m=16.3
kg_96 working hours_100 Euros_12 x 5 x 4,5 m in size
Cardboard tubes acquired from waste of carpet dealers
were fixed at the floor and the ceiling. The tape was first
randomly wrapped around the columns, forming the cords
of the future spatial structure. From the subsequent
multiple wrapping of tape over tape the complex organic
surface of the installation emerged. Even though various
geometrical systems of addition of the tape were tested
during the building of the installation, the resulting shapes
were always mutually similar, as if the forms with chaotic,
organic growth have the same, ungraspable inner order as
natural beings.
Extracts from the discussion held at the Gallery of
Croatian Designers Society on May the 29th 2009
Installation in the Gallery of Croatian Designers Society is
in a certain sense opposed to the modernistic aesthetic
that has characterized group's product design. "Gradual
shift of the relationship towards the form" is evident, so
Maroje Mrduljas describes this installation as "an attempt
of control loss."
Important characteristic of this project is that it is self-
initiated. It presents designer's attempt to turn around the
process in which the set designer gets involved in the
project after the text has been chosen."Each time you find
yourself in the situation where your work is some kind of
service for something, and if your set design is good and
strong if often dominates the play. In this experiment we
tried to explore the inverse approach, to come with a
system or a technology and offer this idea to the director
so he can get inspired by it, and find the appropriate text
or theatrical principle pliant for it." A partly spontaneous
process of building of the installation and it's fast decay
which was about to happen, Sven Jonke associated with
what he calls a formal dramaturgical context: "This
installation has the same dramaturgical line which is
constantly repeating in all the texts, the evolution and
consequent destruction or release of tension,
catharsis."
Set design ideas which transform the principals of theatric
work, and simultaneously serve as installations,
experiments or ideas for exhibition designs, are in line of
design thinking focused on problem solving. "The
experience of building this particular space can be returned
in design", says Maroje Mrduljas, as in the case of the new
shelf from "Element" series where there is a similar case
of overlapping non-orthogonal layers. In products which
partly evolve from spontaneous work as in case of the
installation or proposed set design where the dancers build
the set during the performance, the designers claim the
authorship on the system, and not on the outcome.
Ana Bakic also believes that the set designs don't have to
be "...frozen pictures attributed to the show. They can be
emancipated artistic experiments, where the form
functions both cognitive and spiritual."
"In architectural sense this installation activates the space,
it relies on it, " said Dominko Blazevic," so its hard to
think of it as set-design. This is an action-sculpture...here
has happened something uncontrolled, where the
openness of the form and the virility of the object are of
the utmost importance."
This project has been shown on may 2009 at the gallery of
Croatian Designer's Society.
For Use (Sven Jonke,
Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljkovic) is a group of
designers based in Vienna.
Theater set-design concept
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- Simona Bordone
- 17 July 2009