Cynthia de Wolf
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STAGE
The Theatre as a stage for ‘Living Artwork’
Stage was a live art experience by Cieciura/De Sousa, in collaboration with five selected artists as part of the Theatre Royal Brighton ‘Out of Hours’ programme.
The performance consisted of five individual live art works, responding to each of the five verses of the Emily Dickinson poem, “One need not be a chamber…”.
These site specific artworks were positioned along a specific linear route that the audience followed. The route covered a significant proportion of the 200 year-old theatre, revealing many hidden stairwells, rooms and normally obscure aspects. The audience experienced the live art works in order, starting with the first verse and ending on the fifth verse.
The location of my live artwork was on the theatre stage behind the ‘iron curtain’. I produced a large scale three dimensional drawing using a line like a trail of thought that can be seen as constant, concealed or fractured, depending on your viewpoint.
Through this change in perspective, both the seen and unseen can startle.
One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted -
One need not be a House -
The Brain has Corridors - surpassing
Material Place -
Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than its internal Confronting -
That Cooler Host.
Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a’chase -
Than Unarmed, one’s a’self encounter -
In lonesome Place -
Ourself behind ourself, concealed -
Should startle most -
Assassin hid in our Apartment
Be Horror’s least.
The Body - borrows a Revolver -
He bolts the Door -
O’erlooking a superior spectre -
Or More -
Emily Dickinson 1891
Cieciura/De Sousa present STAGE, in collaboration with Theatre Royal Brighton, 2/9/2013