Labyrinth stage - inštalácia v rámci letného festivalu, Bauhaus kampus, Weimar

Concept

“We have to give the people the feeling that they are walking through a collage, that they are part of a very important scene...”

The project started with a grid, provided by the surrounding of the school, that helped us to design “a stage”. We didn’t really want a real stage like everybody would imagine when they hear the word “stage”. Rather, we desired something new and different. To this end, we tried to figure out a space without a clear hierarchy, where the crowd is as much in importance as the artist. The aim of the project is to give the visitor the feeling that he is walking through a collage, that he or she is part of a very important scene in between the walls.

This is why we want them to do something, to be on the same level as the other artists. In this way we decided to make a walk. Not a normal walk, but a walk through different experiences.

When you are standing outside of the Labyrinth you will have a very static feeling, but when you go inside of it you feel the dynamical forms, the moving projections, the enormeous experiences. You expect something totally different at the outside. We want the people to have the feeling that they are walking into a new world, into a new scene a collage, and here they will have the feeling that they are part of a very important scene.

We will work with specific synographys and on the way the people can create their own performance. We will work with ropes, sounds, different music and artists. At the outside we will project some little details from the inside to make the people at the outside curious. At every entrance you will have the feeling that it will be endless, because we will work with mirrors at the inside walls, also at the crosspoints we will work with a foil to make the people confused of what is happening. It will happen live.

Stage will be at the same height as the people are and the stage will not be that easy to find, it is also part of the game. People have to go inside the Labyrinth and there they will be leaded to the core, the actual stage, while they pass through different rooms where they have to do varied exercices.

There will be not only one artist playing. In the Labyrinth you will find different rooms with various sorts of experimental music. Some of them will be live, some of them you will have to wear headphones on so you can hear the music.

Site

By analysing the site, we could find different interesting points where we could make the entrances. We looked at the plan between the buildings and we deciced to put the Labyrinth between the building of Henry Van de Velde and the new buildings of bauhaus café, woodworkshop and laserand waterjet-cutting. This was the most efficient place, because we had a whole flat surface too.

Unfortunately we did not receive expected grant so we had to change the site and reduce estimated costs. The final decision was to build the labyrinth in smaller scale in the existing building: greenhouse. 3 frames using ropes and moiree efect are placed on a leading path toward the labyrinth.

Podkaldy: Barbora Tóthová