Emanuelle Enchanted by Forced Entertainment
DVD recording Review
“In the summer when the earth changed, it rained for five months and on the night the rain stopped, a silence fell like we’d woke up in a silence from a dream…”
Emmanuelle Enchanted set on a crude wooden stage which hang up a curtain of electric stars. And the action of this piece was divided by five performers that using the curtain to change scenes optionally. They were using the curtain to set up and cut down scenes they were presenting. While one actor pull the curtain on in order to start his performance, but another draw the curtain again trying to stop it. By playing this game there are obvious disagreements about how are they supposed to being presented.
Another interesting idea from this performance is that actors appeared on the scene in a way of dressing up and showing the cardboard signs. such like a title sequence of the film. Characters presented using cardboard signs, such like ‘The Ex-wife of the Ex-president of the USA’, ‘Miss Deep Freeze’ and ‘A Boxer with a Torn Retina’. When actors changed costumes and changed the signs, they became a different characters. As can be seen, a lot of clothes and cardboards on the clothing rack on the side of the stage.
Besides, Forced Entertainment continually used media tech as a tool into performance. In Emmanuelle Enchanted, the monitor and camera were positioned in the middle of the stage, the characters on the monitors talk directly or read news. So the video material takes on a new framing function, giving the meanings of each sections. At the same time, it runs a movement that people running and walls moving with sort of emotion. These walls arranged and assembled in a way of let characters relieve their feelings. It inspirit me using these simple and raw materials as setting could present a third dimension of authenticity. Also the group placed the camera on the stage and all that’s shown on monitor is live. From the audience perspective, all we see is reframed by ourselves. I do like this kind of freedom to observe informations which controls selectivity.
“As its central methodology, the piece uses the act of arranging and rearranging texts, images and space so that new patterns, narratives and meanings emerge.” spoke by Tim Etchells. Emmanuelle Enchanted was like a kind of endlessly game, continually making stories. Based on the set of rules, performance can kept running several times. It may go for a no time-limit performance then. However I fell like it probably need some exciting moment about breaking these rules. That is to say, we work in these rules we set, and attempting to find a way of edit them and tighten them. Emmanuelle Enchanted influenced me to find ways of thinking which articulate the dynamics of our current condition.
Emmanuelle Enchanted set on a crude wooden stage which hang up a curtain of electric stars. And the action of this piece was divided by five performers that using the curtain to change scenes optionally. They were using the curtain to set up and cut down scenes they were presenting. While one actor pull the curtain on in order to start his performance, but another draw the curtain again trying to stop it. By playing this game there are obvious disagreements about how are they supposed to being presented.
Another interesting idea from this performance is that actors appeared on the scene in a way of dressing up and showing the cardboard signs. such like a title sequence of the film. Characters presented using cardboard signs, such like ‘The Ex-wife of the Ex-president of the USA’, ‘Miss Deep Freeze’ and ‘A Boxer with a Torn Retina’. When actors changed costumes and changed the signs, they became a different characters. As can be seen, a lot of clothes and cardboards on the clothing rack on the side of the stage.
Besides, Forced Entertainment continually used media tech as a tool into performance. In Emmanuelle Enchanted, the monitor and camera were positioned in the middle of the stage, the characters on the monitors talk directly or read news. So the video material takes on a new framing function, giving the meanings of each sections. At the same time, it runs a movement that people running and walls moving with sort of emotion. These walls arranged and assembled in a way of let characters relieve their feelings. It inspirit me using these simple and raw materials as setting could present a third dimension of authenticity. Also the group placed the camera on the stage and all that’s shown on monitor is live. From the audience perspective, all we see is reframed by ourselves. I do like this kind of freedom to observe informations which controls selectivity.
“As its central methodology, the piece uses the act of arranging and rearranging texts, images and space so that new patterns, narratives and meanings emerge.” spoke by Tim Etchells. Emmanuelle Enchanted was like a kind of endlessly game, continually making stories. Based on the set of rules, performance can kept running several times. It may go for a no time-limit performance then. However I fell like it probably need some exciting moment about breaking these rules. That is to say, we work in these rules we set, and attempting to find a way of edit them and tighten them. Emmanuelle Enchanted influenced me to find ways of thinking which articulate the dynamics of our current condition.
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