Throughout September I worked as an associate sound artist with Esther Ajayi. The play is called Octopolis, (written by Marek Horn, directed by Ed Madden) at Hampstead Theatre.
I have been interested in sound for theatre for a long time. This was an extremely exciting time for me.
The observations I wanna write about are very little about the sound itself. Or rather the heard sound.
Jerzy Grotowski – penetrating the body
the actor risks feeling that theatre is himself
Artifice/technique
‘In analysis, repetition identifies sublimation, or the transference of one’s feelings about an object onto another. Thus it is associated with obsession.’ (Howell, 1999)
‘Repetition, on the other hand, is often unconscious, motivated perhaps by what may be referred to as the death instinct.’
‘Deleuze considers repetition to be the unconscious of representation.’
Lacan – gaze an invidia – ‘I envy the sight you see. To obtain it I must become you.’
Lacan – ‘The body is the sum of the effects of action upon a subject, at the level at which the subject constitutes himself or herself out of the effects of the move.’
References
Howell, A. (1999) The analysis of performance art : a guide to its theory and practice. London: Routledge.
Grotowski, J. (2015). Towards a Poor Theatre. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.