Project title: Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?
As a way to further our collaborative practice we are interested in using Site Platform to create a series of short videos. Taking a piece of literature, a painting or a film still as a starting point to elaborate concise narration or to draw inspiration from composition we would create prompts and dialogues for actors of our choice to perform within the setting of Site Gallery. Our interest in filming within the gallery space is based on a will to activate and charge the two gallery spaces within Site as two distinct entities that could be constantly remodelled by the inclusion of colours, symbolic structures and objects.
We want the two gallery spaces to work in opposition and to play with their individual natures. For example the larger gallery could be associated with the notion of the outside utilising its rectangular promenade shape, while the other gallery could represent a domestic environment, a smaller, darker and more intimate space. This symbolic association and opposition would inform different behaviour, attitude and gesture. The editing of the video material would be of a crucial nature. We are interested in corrupting the spatial opposition we will have created by forcing conversations and links between our different footage in order to explore the potential of an unexpected visual and verbal exchange.
Our actors will be sourced through a friend and colleague Sophie Bush, who has founded her own Sheffield theatre company with a commitment to facilitating theatrical participation amongst young people. We are interested in working with individuals who are not yet professional but who have an experimental aspiration and an intuitive response to our project.
We would envisage having the gallery as a closed space over the two-week period to sustain a focus and maintain an undisturbed environment for the development of our ideas. On the final day of the two-week period we would want to present the work and the resources in the context of a show, we would also want to give a presentation about our collaborative practice and the work developed.
Maud Haya Baviera & Simon Le Ruez
Project title: Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?
As a way to further our collaborative practice we are interested in using Site Platform to create a series of short videos. Taking a piece of literature, a painting or a film still as a starting point to elaborate concise narration or to draw inspiration from composition we would create prompts and dialogues for actors of our choice to perform within the setting of Site Gallery. Our interest in filming within the gallery space is based on a will to activate and charge the two gallery spaces within Site as two distinct entities that could be constantly remodelled by the inclusion of colours, symbolic structures and objects.
We want the two gallery spaces to work in opposition and to play with their individual natures. For example the larger gallery could be associated with the notion of the outside utilising its rectangular promenade shape, while the other gallery could represent a domestic environment, a smaller, darker and more intimate space. This symbolic association and opposition would inform different behaviour, attitude and gesture. The editing of the video material would be of a crucial nature. We are interested in corrupting the spatial opposition we will have created by forcing conversations and links between our different footage in order to explore the potential of an unexpected visual and verbal exchange.
Our actors will be sourced through a friend and colleague Sophie Bush, who has founded her own Sheffield theatre company with a commitment to facilitating theatrical participation amongst young people. We are interested in working with individuals who are not yet professional but who have an experimental aspiration and an intuitive response to our project.
We would envisage having the gallery as a closed space over the two-week period to sustain a focus and maintain an undisturbed environment for the development of our ideas. On the final day of the two-week period we would want to present the work and the resources in the context of a show, we would also want to give a presentation about our collaborative practice and the work developed.
Maud Haya Baviera & Simon Le Ruez