– St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague. Photo by Andrew Davis.
In choosing to create a site-specific mixed-reality performance, I find myself gravitating towards churches. I have a fascination for them. They are awe-inspiring not only in their architectural triumph and artistry, but also a locus for self-reflection and community.
I want to further explore the notions of light as a spiritual and metaphysical manifestation as seen in the macula’s Khôra. In dealing with light as a medium, the medium will be the message.
In a church setting, my audience can come together as a community, and experience an illuminating experience that exceeds the physical boundaries of the church itself. Materially, the church is already incredibly rich in media, it’s symbols pour out information from all corners and can be read in a multitude of ways. As a community, we can interpret these intricacies together, albeit, in very different ways; but still we can experience a communal sense of spirituality and connection with the Other. My interest, however, is in how I can explore the potential for a community audience to transcend materiality and explore the spatiotemporal complexity of the hypersurface together. I want to take my audience on a metaphysical journey, I want us to experience a transcendental and spiritual experience together, to enter into a sublime and hybrid universe that allows the boundaries between real/representation and physical/metaphysical to become fused with one another in an uplifting totality.
So, with all of this, I just need to find a church in Leicester willing to be a site for the performance…
More updates on that soon!
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