conflicting perceptions 2 experiment

conflicting perception 2 experiment

This piece was meant to be the “sequel” to the first performance, conflicting perception. 

Overall, for this altered perception, I wanted to concentrate on communication and hiding.  How do we know we are always speaking to someone? Is it unconsciously or consciously?  Perhaps, our conversations are just dreams or even hallucinations.    

My intention was to experiment with separating the audience from the performance.  I found that I prefer to incorporate the audience.  Otherwise, I would make sure to disrupt the consciousness that was I unintentionally created in today’s performance.  Overall, I was able to see what to add and take away in my next piece.  It was a good experiment with this idea I wanted to present.  For the book, I thought it would be funny if he was reading a book about consciousness.  I had previously thought of having him read, Kokoro by Natsume Soseki.  

After I watched the video, I can see how the audience would have read Nick and Tara as being parental units because of their posture.  I have some ideas about costumes, so I would like to try that next time in a piece.  I don’t use the theme of family in pieces, so I find it odd that could be interrupted as such.   

Basically, I think the piece was interesting and successful by itself, but I think the next performance of conflicting perceptions 2 needs to be more surreal.  Therefore, I’ll regard this one as the experiment.