COMMUNICATION- workshops - Eliot Moleba
DAY 1- 16.01.24- see full notes transcript
-Define audiences, who is your public?
-Consider what your public is seeing
-What does it mean to tell a story for your own story another’s story ? What are the responsibilities you have when telling someone else’s story?
-Questioning what is problematic in your practice
-Ethical considerations - how much of them do you want to take on? How does it affect your practice if you prioritise the ethical over the practice?
-His audience for those who choose not to come people shy away from the stories . But he has to go to them and that’s where in comes the monument, taking the play to the street is not enough. Theatre is ephemeral not permanent so therefore monuments.
-How to let the people speak for themselves? How to bring your ear to the table by giving the narrator complete control of the narrative. He tracked the changes of his editing and give them the copy with the editing, and without. The editing is his presence in the work, and the stories will be published. Writing was like a puzzle where the pieces were not predefined, but where they could be forced and fitted into each other.
-Monumoments: the monument, where interaction should leave traces digital or not.
-He had to define what a monument was versus what he assumed a monument to be in the beginning.
Three rules of the monument:
⁃ Has to function like a monument?
⁃ Has to be interacted with by design: morning and must prescribe what the interaction is
⁃ Monument has to be designed to carry the layers of the people interacting with it.