A Few Deep Breaths

2022년 5월 20-22일
라 마마 실험창작단, 컬처허브가 서울예술대학교와 함께 발표

A Few Deep Breaths는 우리가 공유하고 있는 역사의 현 시점에 대한 시적 반영이자 앞으로의 길에 대한 명상입니다. 77세와 7세가 모호한 공간의 문턱에 함께 매달려 있는 자신을 발견합니다. 그리고 그들은 서로를 이해하기 시작합니다. 물리적 세계와 디지털 세계 사이에서 일어나는 A Few Deep Breaths는 Erik Ehn, Huntrezz Janos, Adrienne Kennedy, Haruna Lee, Chuck mee, Robert Patrick, Christopher Rivas의 글과 Starr Busby, John Dyer, Justin Hicks, Woody Pak의 음악 등을 엮은 의식(ritual) 프로세스를 통해 인간의 본성을 탐구합니다. Agosto Machado가 출연하며, Tom Lee가 만든 꼭두각시 인형으로 Leah Ogawa와 Maria Camia가 연기합니다.

A Few Deep Breaths는 예술적 형태의 경계를 확장하는 스토리 중심의 작품을 배양하는 컬처허브와 라 마마의 '디지털 스토리텔링 실험 프로그램'의 일환으로 제작되었습니다.

View the digital program.

프로세스에 대한 참고 사항 :

A Few Deep Breaths는 제작 진행중 (work-in-progress)인 작품으로 발표되었습니다. 2021년 6월, 라 마마 실험창작단과 컬처허브가  7명의 작가에게 다음과 같은 질문을 던지며 작업이 시작되었습니다. 

• 인간 정신의 본질은 무엇입니까?

• 인간 정신에서 신과 같은 요소는 무엇입니까?

• 개인으로서 또는 글로벌 커뮤니티로서 우리가 지금 당장 던져야 할 질문은 무엇입니까?

• 우리는 이 시기에 예술가로서 어떻게 대응해야 할까요?

Each writer responded by generating 10 lines of dialogue or 5 actions for two characters: a 7 year old and a 77 year old.

The creative team behind A Few Deep Breaths then interwove the writers’ responses - some of which were shared with musicians who created new songs - to create a non-linear story, which was developed in collaboration with performer Agosto Machado, puppet artist Tom Lee, and puppeteers Leah Ogawa and Maria Camia.

La MaMa and CultureHub collaborated with artists at the Seoul Institute of the Arts to create a telematic scene that was presented live on Friday May 20th, 2022. The performers in Korea and New York interacted live and were connected using LiveLab, a collaborative performance tool developed by CultureHub.

A Few Deep Breaths was presented via a custom built streaming platform that was developed with creative technologists Aidan Nelson and Shawn Van Every. This platform allowed us to transmit the live performance to the audience in milliseconds. There were also interactive elements that were activated throughout the performance, making the audience an invaluable part of this experiment. The interactive features were as follows:

• A 2D lobby space that the audience entered at the beginning of the show in which they could share real time audio and video streams with other online audience members.

• A global messaging system that allowed the production team to send messages to the audience members.

• A chat area where the audience could respond to prompts and questions from the production team. During the telematic sequence the audience was asked -What would you destroy to make a new world? -The puppets in New York and Korea wrote down the audiences' responses in real-time, amplifying the liveness of the show.

• A feature which allowed the audience to toggle between two distinct video feeds using their spacebar. This was used at a point of the show when the narrative branched in two.

A Few Deep Breaths System Diagram

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