Leonor SERRANO RIVAS
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Exchange Residency Program
(International creators from abroad)
update: 2019.10.7
Leonor SERRANO RIVAS
| Participating Project | Exchange Residency Program (Creators from abroad) |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | United Kingdom |
| City | Tokyo |
| Period | 2017.10 - 2017.11 |
Purpose of the residency
Could we regard architecture as a character inside a certain theatre? There is -a tiny perhaps- but super interesting stage feature in Japanese Kabuki theatre -hanamichi- that I would like to research in relation to actions of mimicry in fiction. However this peculiarity does not exist in Western proscenium-arch theatre -where it takes place unseen, in the wings of the backstage- this Japanese feature functions as a unique element that physically shows the fiction's threshold. This element brings an interesting approach to my on-going research on theatre as a temporal fictional site. I want to explore the way in which symbolic actions, hold within a theatrical frame, generate mimicry in spectators (passive beings) and actors (active beings).
Plan during the residency
- I am willing to get a closer look into Japanese Kabuki theatre, in particular an element called "hanamichi".
- Kinkarakami. Japanese leather wallpaper (washi).
- Bunraku ( ningyo joruri) an elaborate form of puppet theatre.
- National libraries and archives.
