The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage
Will be published approx. on 29. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-88922-774-3 (ISBN)
Description
Investigates the influence of technology and visual art in the work of Robert Lepage, leading figure on the international stage.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
35 color and B&W photographs
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88922-774-3 (9780889227743)
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Persons
Ludovic Fouquet is a visual artist, actor, teacher, director, and founder of the multimedia theatre company songes mécaniques (Mechanical Dreams) in Blois, France. After
training as an actor and dancer, Fouquet earned his PhD studying Robert Lepage's artistic practice and its relationship to technology. Fouquet edited La trilogie des dragons (The Dragons' Trilogy, L'instant meme, 2005), and developed a photographic monograph of this work. In addition to frequent speaking engagements at French universities, Fouquet contributes regularly to numerous theatre and contemporary art magazines, including Cahiers de Théâtre, JEU, ETC Montréal, and theatre-contemporain.net. Fouquet divides his time between France and Quebec.
Content
INTRODUCTION
Machina
PART ONE
PUPPET THEATRE AND QUARRY: TWO MODELS AS A HORIZON
Theatre of the object
A puppet theatre set
The Seven Streams of the River Ota
The cube
The actor as puppet?
The shadow and the quarry
PART TWO
THE HORIZON OF THE IMAGINATION: TECHNOLOGICAL ECHOES
The imago
First echo: light technology
"Theatre beings in a quarry and we light a fire"
Creator of shadows
Between shadow and light: the mirror
Technological experiments
Second echo: photography
Photography as a reference
Photography as an index
Photography as a metaphor for the psychic apparatus
Third echo: cinema
A film narrative
A movie set
A cinematic gaze
Fourth echo: video
From the monitor to the movie screen
Video and the mirror
Video palimpsest
Fifth echo: a virtual environment: the ultimate palimpsest?
The modeling route
The digitization route
The palimpsest space
Sixth echo: sound technology
The issues of amplification
Sound technology, or the art of accompaniment
Sound technology: a new sort of protagonist
PART THREE
THE BREACH IN THE HORIZON: ECHOES OF CHAOS
Lepage's practice: from resource to system
The resource: the heart and focal point of the rehearsal
From openness to vertigo: Lepage's approach
Intervals and overlaps in phases of work
Lepage's stage: a multicultural space
Gazing into the unknown
Miscegenation
The stage: a space for unlikely encounters
Orientalism and multimedia: a new baroque?
A baroque-dominated reading of the Orient
Tension and spatial organization: the ultimate embodiment of the baroque
Vertical ambiguity
PART FOUR
THE HORIZON IN CONCLUSION
Appendix 1: Robert Lepage shows mentioned in this book
Appendix 2: Chronology of Robert Lepage's creations
Bibliography
Machina
PART ONE
PUPPET THEATRE AND QUARRY: TWO MODELS AS A HORIZON
Theatre of the object
A puppet theatre set
The Seven Streams of the River Ota
The cube
The actor as puppet?
The shadow and the quarry
PART TWO
THE HORIZON OF THE IMAGINATION: TECHNOLOGICAL ECHOES
The imago
First echo: light technology
"Theatre beings in a quarry and we light a fire"
Creator of shadows
Between shadow and light: the mirror
Technological experiments
Second echo: photography
Photography as a reference
Photography as an index
Photography as a metaphor for the psychic apparatus
Third echo: cinema
A film narrative
A movie set
A cinematic gaze
Fourth echo: video
From the monitor to the movie screen
Video and the mirror
Video palimpsest
Fifth echo: a virtual environment: the ultimate palimpsest?
The modeling route
The digitization route
The palimpsest space
Sixth echo: sound technology
The issues of amplification
Sound technology, or the art of accompaniment
Sound technology: a new sort of protagonist
PART THREE
THE BREACH IN THE HORIZON: ECHOES OF CHAOS
Lepage's practice: from resource to system
The resource: the heart and focal point of the rehearsal
From openness to vertigo: Lepage's approach
Intervals and overlaps in phases of work
Lepage's stage: a multicultural space
Gazing into the unknown
Miscegenation
The stage: a space for unlikely encounters
Orientalism and multimedia: a new baroque?
A baroque-dominated reading of the Orient
Tension and spatial organization: the ultimate embodiment of the baroque
Vertical ambiguity
PART FOUR
THE HORIZON IN CONCLUSION
Appendix 1: Robert Lepage shows mentioned in this book
Appendix 2: Chronology of Robert Lepage's creations
Bibliography