Untitled (Shubert Theater)

Writing Excerpt

Theatron, “a place where things are seen and done” in Greek, gave us the theater concept, a space where human behavior can be observed. By articulating an interest in bodies, movements, and fiction, I sought to reorient the spread “as a theatre space.”

Spreads are created by placing the verso and recto sides horizontally and vertically each. The crevices and rooms between the pages are interpreted as a medium connecting different times of Shubert Theater. Building a spread direction represents restructuring the context. For pieces to be repeated and overlapped, they had to be repeatedly descrambled, deconstructed, and rebuilt.

Reading these spreads is a physical act of responding, flipping, and viewing the experience similarly, and a mimicry highlighting the increase of scale based on the gestures. The documentation I produced by filming the deconstructed spreads being turned at different scales from overhead was a way of communicating this gestural approach.

Video Excerpt

Credits

Performance
Ainsley Romero and Neeta Patel