SharedSpace events
SpaceLab: LIGHTHOUSE
SpaceLab: LIGHTHOUSE
Scenography workshop for arts students
December 3- 6, 2013 / Homlungen Fyr, nearby Fredrikstad, Norway
Organized by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College and Prague Quadrennial as a part of SharedSpace: Music Weather Politics project, the workshop provides a unique opportunity to think and practice scenography at the most unusual setting. A total of 16 selected students together with 3 teachers will explore the spatial narrative potential and inquire inherent scenographical quality of this specific site while spending 4 days at the Homlungen island lighthouse, characterized by true Nordic climate. Held in the frame of SharedSpace project, this event belongs to the SpaceLab – an essential educational platform designed to deepen the knowledge and practice of scenography beyond usual school curriculum and to create the meeting point for students with top professionals. The head tutor of the SpaceLab: Lighthouse will be Prof. Serge von Arx (Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College).
The genius loci of a lighthouse incorporates the encounter of nature in its rawest state and the most functional human striving. Most lighthouses are located at the perimeter of human settlement, where the sea in its constant movement hits solid land. Men have built structures to facilitate trade and expand knowledge at exactly those remote places which can be spotted from the oceans. Those lacking maps and the understanding of the complexity of the lighthouse are doomed to run aground. It is the combination of centralized political or strategic power, the financial strength and engineering knowledge which shape the background for the existence of lighthouses that mark the edge of human presence in a site specific way. The solitude of the lighthouse and those who have worked there in analogue times represent the strongholds of narrative silence.
Lighthouse workshop is organized by Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College.
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