Concept, texts, design: Lena Müller, Theun Mosk, Marloeke van der Vlugt and Roos van Geffen
Technical support: Jeffrey Steenbergen
Software: 7Scenes, Developed by De Waag Society
Producer: Henrica van den Berg, VPT
Curators: Mirjam Grote Gansey, Herbert Janse a.o.
Thanks to:
The unknown photographer who took the photo's somewhere around 1968
VPT/ Els Wijmans
Theatre Institute of The Netherlands / Nan van Houten
Foundation for Performing Arts of The Netherlands
Pieter Smit
Theatre School Amsterdam
Together with the designers Lena Müller, Theun Mosk en Marloeke van der Vlugt, Roos created the Dutch contribution of the Prague Quadrennial 2011, the world exhibition for performance and scenography.
The four designers from the Netherlands created an empty wooden box. They didn't bring models or photographs of their stage designs. Instead, they created a mobile phone walk through Prague. The walk is based on the locations depicted on the old photographs found behind the former PQ exhibition building. By taking the tour, the audience is guided to the locations where the photographs dating around 1968 were taken. During the route the designers share their thoughts about framing reality. As a response the visitors take their own photographs, which are printed immediately after the walk. Back at the pavilion the visitors can display them in the wooden box. These pictures form the starting point for a discussion about different ways of looking and about creating (theatrical) images.
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Read articles in Zichtlijnen here
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Whit MacLaughlin New Paradise Laboratories (www.newparadiselaboratories.org)
I found the Dutch National Pavilion and the walking tour to be a well-integrated and forward-looking experience at the Prague Quadrennial--amongst my favourites there. The tour was well-written and evocative, the ending was fulfilling and memorable. I particularly enjoyed the human interaction at the end--comparing notes with other fellow-travellers(...)
Michael Spencer in Blue pages – The Society of British Theatre Designers, June 11:
"The Dutch exhibit confronted us with a booth, inside which sat a man who presented participants with an iPhone if they wished to take a hour long tour through the streets of Prague immediately outside the exhibition building. The tour was created by four leading Dutch scenographers - the iPhone was your guide: map, visual references, audio and means of recording your experience. This last example - a personal favourite - raises issues of where reality meets theatre, by asking participants to frame their experience via photographs they are instructed to take."
Read articles Zichtlijnen here
Reviews by participants read here
