Inside Stories
A window of windows, of Inside Stories.
One of translation, transcription and essentially transmission.
This scenography, commissioned by MAD Home of Creators, is designed to host a series of fortunate events, from master classes to conferences and workshops.
We looked at the theatre as a space of transmission. From theatre to curtain. From a separating curtain to a technical curtain. A curtain of transmission. A frame of transmission. With one lighting element: the red mascot light that we previously conceived for MAD Home of Creators for the pop-up shop 100th Territory.
For the structure of the frame, we chose galvanised steel as it ages well, circular tubes for they could be easily assembled with ready-made connectors, reducing production operations.This system allows for reuse and flexibility for other events to come.
Inside Stories is a system
To the frame plug in the different tools of transcription. A camera capturing stills and top view moves, transmitting them on a screen. A tool that transcribes sound into words. A scanner that captures a digital imprint of a print. The content: Sound. Image. And text. All telling, the inside stories behind that window.
These different elements are fixed to the frame via home grown connectors that we customised and 3D printed with PLA, recyclable plastic.
All surfaces of the frame are cut out of material made from heat pressed residues of beer production.
The spatial configuration is defined by an annotated grid hand marked on the floor on which the furniture moves and adapts to the different types of events happening in the window space. The grid on the floor follows the grid of the frame structure.
#WIP
This same grid serves as a ruler for the wall, allocating spaces for the collaboration with Shayto Badjoko: 20 illustrations translating the theme of Inside Stories, winking at the different participants and the tools that they use.
We kept the blue of Bureau Wolewinski from the previous MAD Window for it is a fantastic blue, and we would hate to waste a nicely painted wall. As for the furniture, we used those piling up in MAD’s storage, to put them at work, avoid waste and an extra layer on the storage pile, once the story of Inside Stories is dismantled.
Special thanks to our team. Special thanks to MAD’s team :)
You can replay all the lives, they are here.
Some pictures are from Eline Willaert