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2007 » The Netherlands » National section
| Curator: | de Ruijter Eric |
| Authors of Theme: | Mirjam Grote Gansey, Peter de Kimpe, Mirjam Grote Gansey |
| Designer / Architect of exhibition: | Catherine Scholten |
| Institution: | Oistat, VPT |
The soul of the designer: the essence of design
The Dutch pavilion aspires to be the central meeting point of the PQ’07. A place where the focal point is the design process itself rather than the final result. We want to centre on the invited Dutch designers and their working process and thus go beyond the pure exhibition of scale-models. We want to reflect on the ‘soul of the designer’. In a further concretization of the program we will also invite international designers to participate in roundtable debates in our pavilion. The Dutch pavilion will be staffed for ten days by designers who comment on their own sources and inspiration material, present their working process and share this with other designers here and abroad as well as the public. In the eyes of the curators of the Dutch contribution (Mirjam Grote Gansey, Peter de Kimpe, Herbert Jansse, Catharina Scholten, Matt Vermeulen, Martien van Goor, Hans van Kuelen and Eric de Ruijter) stage design does not just involve set design, but equally light, sound, costume and video design. These disciplines jointly constitute the design of a performance. That is why designers from all disciplines creating the design of a performance were invited. Each invited designer will fill one day at the PQ. The designer is free to think up an exceptional concept for his or her day. Each designer will be asked to specifically zoom in on part of his or her work or to single out a specific design. As a guideline each day has a fixed schedule monitored by a knowledgeable Master of Ceremonies. Each day starts with the introduction of the designer and then later in the day there is an opportunity to do some actual work in a workshop-like situation with colleagues and interested persons. The day will be concluded with a meeting between the guest and a foreign colleague, specially invited by the designer of the day. Most likely this person will have attended the whole day and will thus be able to reflect on the ‘soul of the designer’ of this day. In the Dutch pavilion experiences in, images of and views on theatre and stage will be exchanged. To properly do so the Dutch pavilion consists of the most open and simple space possible, with tables and with a container in which work or presentations can be done with great concentration. The pavilion has the image of work in progress in a workshop. Furthermore all the items provided by the designer of the day can be seen. It is certainly an ambitious perspective of the Dutch contribution to concretize the volatile and intangible result of theatre: after a performance the set disappears into a storage-room or waste-container and only the image of a performance remains in the heads of the audience.