Pittsburgh in the Round: There is something so inherently simple about the deconstruction and even excoriation of an individual’s interior by following passages through rooms in the individuals’ personal space. How a person fills their space with their possessions; how a person uses their movements, consciously and unconsciously, to interact with and interpret themselves within their space; and how a given space or room may be an interpretation or interruption (or both simultaneously) of a person’s sense of self, are seemingly apparent understandings of rooms and spaces.
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I love the concept of this piece not only as a truly conceptual and avant garde piece of theater, but the idea of watching someone who doesn't think they're being watched. Your private home is someplace you often take for granted as a safe place to act and be how you want without any pressures of society influencing how you present your actions and body language or what you wear, and you behave differently. Exploring that in a theatrical way doesn't only give the audience the unease of being the watcher in a private moment, but also makes them think about their own behaviors when no one is watching them and when they're in their own private spaces. The use of the space and interaction, or non interaction, of the audience with the space and the people dong mundane tasks inside it make this a production I would be interested to watch and experience.
This seems like a really cool exhibit. I have yet to go to the Mattress Factory and In House looks like a good excuse to finally hop on a bus. The way the article describes this exhibit, it feels like Sleep No More where the actors ignore the audience members as they perform their lives/stories. I like that this exhibit choose such a simple thing for people to observe. For people to observe what it is just like to live in a house, or experience something as simple or complicated as life is an interesting concept. I am intrigued to see if the dancers have to push audience members out of the way as they move through the rooms of the Mattress Factory. I am also interested to see how the movement in the different rooms of the Mattress Factory and the lighting and sound that already exists or is added changes the dance.
Wow! What an interesting looking exhibit! I may need to revisit the mattress factory soon to catch it! I absolutely loved the mattress factory the first time I visited, and the fact that the museum continues to change and reinvent itself through constantly rotating exhibitions makes it a spot I will likely keep visiting for the years to come, if not longer. I think the space itself is such a cool blank slate for the art that resides within, and I really like how they re purposed an old industrial building into an intimate and ever changing art museum. I also enjoy crossing the river and exploring the North Side, which is a cool neighborhood and a refreshing change of pace from campus and the regions surrounding. I'm really excited to see the new exhibit and get back to the mattress factory, and I hope that new exhibitions keep getting posted on here, since this blog has been a good information resource for things going on outside campus!
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