------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud. [emile zola in mes haines.1895]
15 November 2011
14 November 2011
WAITING FOR GODOT INSTALLATION COLLABORATION
Waiting for GODot© 2011
interpretation installation by architect Satish Krishnan + Marcella Leone
waiting for GODot © 2011 DIRECTED: SATISH KRISHNAN + MARCELLA LEONE
PROPOSAL:
An installation film that takes 'the metaphysical nature of The Waiting for GODot play by Samuel Beckett, where in short, it tries to establish the nature of the relationships.' the basic premise is to create a 10-15 mins rendition of the play, whereby the reflective condition of the current capitalism/ consumer soceity debate that is questioning the entire existence of man, reveals itself in script shared by the two characters, Satish and myself, and yet in visible different time zones. Two 'live' video feeds, Satish in Madras, India and I, in London, with backdrop as projections, the frames next to each other on the screen with close cuts and frames. ref: Requiem for a Dream 'Bed Scene.' to create a sense of unification and yet division of time and mind, reflective of our current circumstance of an insecure value system.
LOCATION:
MADRAS-beach: : mass construction, whilst the poor sleep on the beach at night and make for the rich people who stroll the river.
LONDON-river :the rubbish dump of goods, that wash away on the river bed, in low tide, as consequence of consumer nature.
POETIC CONCEPT FOR SCRIPT:
plastic notions through bubble pink coloured eyes
tainted realms of ill advised members of society
consumer-ist society in all its amputated parts
here lies an arbitrary to the realised state
to the cross pollination of aesthetic values to the rise of the falling star
consumerism entertainer of pleasures and accommodator of all sorts
enemy of the existence of primal instinct instinct: star of the show
affiliate to the exit of humanity the merger of the real state and false value
to be plunged into the depths of flaccid dreams and wet concoctions of fake sentiments
the last strands of unforsaken childhood sink into the stale waters of human value
the multiplication of colourful attributes of the soul to sing an abode to the false petals of time
REF: WAIITNG FOR GODOT/ AUTHOR SAMUEL BECKETT
Synopsis:
Absurdist/existential play about two characters(Vladimir + Estregon) who await for someone of the name Godot, who in fact never does arrive. a play of nothingness.
'.....the meaningless bleak setting of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, whereby the narrative debates the existence of life in the protagonist’s wait. The very first words of the play are Estragon’s words ‘Nothing to be done’, repeated several times ‘There’s nothing we can do’. Estragon says ‘Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.’ Many times Estragon says ‘Lets go’, but Vladimir always reminds him that they can’t as they are ‘Waiting for Godot’. This inability to act renders Vladimir and Estragon unable to determine their own fates. Unable to act, they wait for someone or something to act upon them.
As Camus stated in The Myth of Sisyphus [p.117 1983]:
The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between be- ing and appearing. In accordance to Albert Camus coined term of the ‘Absurd’ in The Myth of Sisyphus this is a performance of The Theatre of the Absurd, where humanity holds the absolute absurdity of existence in its lack of intrinsic purpose. In a tale of comparison with Sisyphus, man is condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a moun- tain, only to see it roll down again, and in the realization [08] of the absurd one asks himself, should one consider suicide?
[07]And Camus replies‘No. It requires revolt.’ Camus writes on ‘Absurd’ creation as a description of the world’s experi- ences, freed from hope and done ‘for nothing’. As Camus stated in the chapter, ephemeral creation in The Myth of
Sisiyphus [p.98 1983]:
If the world were clear, art would not exist...Thus, I ask of absurd creation what I required from thought---revolt, freedom, and diversity. And so, creation in an ephemeral manner can live in a mo- ment, reflective of human condition and phenomenology, which ‘fundamentally has no more importance than building for centuries’. And in Camus’s motto [cited in Davis p.179 1997]:
Oh my soul do not aspire to immortal life but ex haust the limits of the possible.'
-extract from MArch. Research Thesis. author/ marcella leone (in the plight of an architecture of ‘Nothingness’ post war cinema as a critique of existential architectural theory )
12 November 2011
10 November 2011
8 November 2011
LIFE© 2011 A STATE OF MIND SHORT: STATEMENT
A STATE OF MIND
LIFE SHORT © 2011
DIRECTED: MARCELLA LEONE
DESCRIPTION:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
-ARTICLE 01.UNITED NATIONS OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
And in the words of Dom Helder Camara [1909-1999] Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife or 'Bishop of the Slums' and social justice humanitarian:
without justice, love and happiness will always be a great illusion
LIFE is an experimental short that plays on the raw urban context of London’s council estate culture and the architectural brutalism, that has become and is a social identity of LONDON Life, in the shadow of the recent summer riots. The ESTATE as a PRISON.ISOLATION UNIT and WAITING ROOM for LIFE in its repetitive and non-individualistic state. A platform into the social justice system that delves into the ‘no future’ mindscape of today’s society, made of homeland battlefields, consumerist idealism and youthful broken notions of fraternity. An escape, from the concrete confinement of social class to the liberation of incarcerated thought, in the daydream of a forest, ridden by thoughts like ghosts and the false truisms of mechanical flowers. A fine line between the real and imagined states of mind, and the restraints of social class and freedom of action, life and thought cross boundaries.
I am determined, the government is determined that justice will be done and these people will see the consequences of their actions. And I have this very clear message to those people who are responsible for this wrong doing and criminality, YOU will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punsihments. And to these people I would say this, you are not only wrecking the lives of others, youre not only wrecking your own community, youre potentially wrecking your own life too
- David Cameron (on summer riots). 06 Aug. Downing Street.
SYNOPSIS:
Words to describe Space and State.
A youth crosses the concrete wasteland of an estate. She passes the common factors of these raw ridden urban communities. A worn down laundrette, the sign as it peels off, with the disdain of society. An off license where kids, go in their hooded tops, to grab a bottle of coke or whatever. The betting shop, where a group of men crowd outside, in the hope to cling onto some monetary hope. A library, as an old man struggles down the ramp alone with his trolley filled with books, he clings to a fountain of information.
Enclosed each time by the physical confinement of narrow corridors and roughened and darkened by the coarse concrete the estate is made off, she continues on her way home, as in any other day, her walk is as it always is, the same with the same corners and the same characters. With each mundane fragment of an ordinary life, LIFE in a concrete state captured on camera.
Arrival at the blue door. Like the rest. Same colour. Same Door. Same LIFE. Narrow corridors. Cold. Kept. And controlled. The nuts and bolts of the place on show, as it were. Sat solemn in front of the box, waiting in a controlled manner and yet in an unkempt state of mind. The previous scenes come on screen on repeat, as it were, like the repetition of LIFE. Then scenes of the MindState come to the screen, as the line between the real and unreal state cross pollinate. And no doubt, the eyes close shut and we go with slurred stillness into the daydreams of this ‘numbered’ member of society. In a tale of escapism, that only exists in dreams, she deadens her thoughts in her dreams in a perpetual downhill spiral. And awakes, to realise something has to change. This time she escapes, in reality: LIFE.
About Me
- marcella leone
- Oxford/ London
- Part II Architect. Designer. Multi Media Artist. * oxford brookes university: AAD UNIT. with Archigram's David Greene + Andrew Holmes A never seizing exploration of the fine line between art and architecture, between the mindscape and the solid state of being