“Toy Theater”
Interaktive Installation – Software, Licht, Farbe. Breite: 2.2 m, Tiefe: 2 m, Höhe: 1.6 m – München, 2021
Die Betrachter*innen gestalten die Bühne mit animierten Grafiken ihrer Wahl. Sie schieben diese vom außen Rand der Bühne oder “Proszenium” in den Bereich der erleuchteten Bühne. Dadurch übernehmen die Betrachter*innen die Rolle des Regisseurs, und erzeugen somit ihre Interpretationen der vorhandenen Geschichten.
“Setting the stage: Artistic production through narrative exchange”
Read the project: Transnational Collaboration through narrative exchange
Octavia Roodt and I became acquainted on the on 12th of July 2020, when we exchanged our first email. I was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich at the time, while Octavia was finishing her master’s studies at the University of Pretoria. Over the course of several months, we worked on the “transculturality” project, a part of the field of art didactics led by Professor Dr. Ernst Wagner in Munich. Octavia and I began our exchange with a spirit of experimentation and fluidity. Led by our unique set of differences and commonalities, we discussed many possible areas of artistic collaboration…
