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2007 » Canada » National section
| Curator: | Véronique Borboën and Natalie Rewa |
| Designer / Architect of exhibition: | Matteau Anne-Marie |
Imprints of Process
When the lights in the auditorium dim, the first engagement of the spectator is with the scenography – a portal into the always reinvented universes of performance. These moments emerge from the multidisciplinary process of creation by a team, but too often the point of conceptualizing this experience, its point of departure is ignored: the spectator rarely has the opportunity to encounter the first acts of the imagination. The curators invited designers to show glimpses into the creative processes when vocabularies for the stage are being developed. Designers were asked to submit what was significant to their own process from any stage of their work – whether it was their research, sketches or notes on their modes of professional survival in Canada’s lively tradition of freelance scenography. Woven into this exhibit of studio work are threads of the scenographers’ personal reflections on what has become significant to them. So finally the exhibit asks the viewer to engage with the moments of encounter between the scenographers and their publics – when the designer envisions looking at the spectator as much as the viewer now looks at these works, and reflections from the studio.
