Landscape, isolation, and belonging in performance: The art of directing in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Byrnes, Vanessa
Date
2021-06Citation:
Byrnes, V.K. (2021, June). Landscape, Isolation, and Belonging in Performance: The Art of Directing in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Paper presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, University of Western Australia, Perth.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/5406Abstract
Key features of the domain; landscape and identity
SETTINGS
• Isolation
• Social mobility and access; ‘one degree of separation’
• Co-operative effort
• Belonging
• Detail/ big picture dichotomy
• Genuine exploration for newness
• Risk
• Proximity to audience
ELEMENTS
• Interpretive Confidence
• Melding of techniques; ‘Magpie-ism’
• the nomadic tendency of artists
• reterritorialization of the self
• the unique ‘line of flight’ of the artist
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus
• Non-theatrical material and its influence