Monday, 2 September 2013
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Spark pictures
With some of these images we could use them to spark inspiration and create a piece using images, i've never done anything like that before so it would be a completely new devising process for me.
All of the images have something to do with circles, obviously.
This image to me gives off a feeling like playing as kids, maybe a merry-go-round. Because it's a sign for a roundabout I get the struggle with traffic and cars.
A button to me makes me think of materialism and the constant need to be perfect in some way.
From this picture all i can get is the rolling action and a 360 degree angle.
The letter O is to me a beautiful letter even the way you say it, there's some kind of fascination. Letters are a great way to show different emotions. We could link a letter to a passed experience or something personal.
The peacefulness of a lake being disturbed sparks many ideas like depression, destruction of a building or ruining something beautiful.
Circles in nature are everywhere, they make up the whole visual part to objects like logs of wood.
The length of something turning in on it's self, psychologically and physically is what i get from this picture.
Age is what i see from this picture and everything that gets better from getting old is what i see.
The human body is a lot like a circle it keeps on going round and round with it's cycles, like the immune system and things like that they just keep going round and don't stop until you stop. That is what i get from this picture.
All of the images have something to do with circles, obviously.
This image to me gives off a feeling like playing as kids, maybe a merry-go-round. Because it's a sign for a roundabout I get the struggle with traffic and cars.
A button to me makes me think of materialism and the constant need to be perfect in some way.
From this picture all i can get is the rolling action and a 360 degree angle.
The letter O is to me a beautiful letter even the way you say it, there's some kind of fascination. Letters are a great way to show different emotions. We could link a letter to a passed experience or something personal.
The peacefulness of a lake being disturbed sparks many ideas like depression, destruction of a building or ruining something beautiful.
Circles in nature are everywhere, they make up the whole visual part to objects like logs of wood.
The length of something turning in on it's self, psychologically and physically is what i get from this picture.
Age is what i see from this picture and everything that gets better from getting old is what i see.
The human body is a lot like a circle it keeps on going round and round with it's cycles, like the immune system and things like that they just keep going round and don't stop until you stop. That is what i get from this picture.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
EVALUATION
Sorry, there was something i missed out on in the video. It's about the site and how responsive it was. The main responsive aspect was the fact that the stumps were in a circle, which gave us a really grand option in the context of circles, of cause we went with the topic of Dante's Inferno but there were other topics that we considered as well, for example: what comes around goes around and bottle caps. It was a rather big variety to play with. So have our site in the shape of a circle helped us to adapted an easy performance. The other responsive aspect of the site was that it was out side which made our performance more atmospheric and we were able to use the out side space well by dragging some of the actors off the main performance area. For a small aspect of the site we used the hill, some of the actors climbed up it at the start, this didn't really work because you could see the actors when the audience were standing waiting to be seated and when the actually sat down.
I also forgot to say what went well. I felt that the topic we chose was strong and good for the site that we were using, the reason for thinking this is because Dante's Inferno isn't really recognized as widely as it was so doing a performance with it made me feel like we where using history to bring entertainment. When i wasn't in the circle i was circling the audience which i thought made the them slightly claustrophobic. To me this brought the performance some juxtaposition because we were outside and i was making the audience feel claustrophobic which presented them with the complete opposite to what was happening around them.
Saturday, 16 March 2013
The circles.
These are the CANTO's we used from Dante's Inferno:
CANTO 2
CANTO 5
CANTO 9
CANTO 2
In the second circle of Hell are those over come by lust. Dante condemns these "carnel malefactors" for letting there appetites sway their reason. They are the first ones to be truly punished in Hell. These souls are blown back and forth by the terrible winds of a violent storm, without rest. This symbolizes the power of lust to blow one about needlessly and aimlessly.
In this circle, Dante sees Semiramis, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris, Tristan, and many other who were overcome by sensual love during there life. Dante is told by Francesca da Rimini how she and her husbands brother Paolo Malatesta committed adultery, but then died a violent death, in the name of Love, at the hands of her husband, Giovanni. Francesca reports that their act of adultery was triggered by reading the adulterous story of Lancelot and Guinevere. Nevertheless, she predicts that her husband will be punished for his fratricide in Caina, with in the ninth circle.
(Nikki is doing this Canto)
CANTO 5
In the swamp like water of the river Styx, the wrathful fight each other on the surface, and the sullen lie gurgling beneath the water, withdrawn "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe. Phlegyas reluctantly transports Dante and Virgil across the Styx in his skiff. On the way the are accosted by Filippo Argenti, a black guelph from a prominent family. When Dante was forced to leave Florence, Argenti took all his property. When Dante responds "In weeping and in grieving, accursed spirit, may you long remain," Virgil blesses him. Literally, this reflects the fact that souls in Hell are eternally fixed in the state they have chosen, but allegorically, it reflects Dante's beginning awareness of his own sin.
The lower parts of Hell are contained within the walls of the city of Dis, which itself surrounded by the Stygian marsh. Punished within Dis are active sins. The walls of Dis are guarded by fallen angels. Virgil is unable to convince them to let Dante and him enter, and Dante is threatened by Furies and Medusa. An angel sent from Heaven secures entry for the poets, opening the gate by touching it with a wand, and rebukes those who opposed Dante. Allegorically, this reveals the fact that the poem is beginning to deal with sins that philosophy and humanism cannot fully understand. Virgil also mentions to Dante how Erichtho sent him down to the lowest circle of hell to bring back a spirit from there.
(Marian is doing this Canto)
CANTO 9
The ninth and last circle is ringed by classical and Biblical giants, who perhaps symbolise pride and other spiritual flaws lying behind acts of treachery. The giants are standing on a ledge above the ninth circle of Hell, so that from the Malebolge they are visible from the waist up. They include Nimrod, Ephialtes, Briareus, Tityos, and Typhon. The giant Antaeus lowers Dante and Virgil into the pit that forms the ninth circle of hell.
The Traitors are distinguished from the "merely fraudulent in that their acts involve betraying a special relationship of some kind. There are four concentric zones of traitors. These rounds correspond, in order of seriousness, to betrayal of family ties, betrayal of community ties, betrayal of guests, and betrayal of liege lords. in contrast to the popular image of hell as fiery, the traitors are frozen in a lake of ice known as Cocytus, with each group encased in ice to progressively greater depths.
CANTO 2
CANTO 5
CANTO 9
CANTO 2
In the second circle of Hell are those over come by lust. Dante condemns these "carnel malefactors" for letting there appetites sway their reason. They are the first ones to be truly punished in Hell. These souls are blown back and forth by the terrible winds of a violent storm, without rest. This symbolizes the power of lust to blow one about needlessly and aimlessly.
In this circle, Dante sees Semiramis, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris, Tristan, and many other who were overcome by sensual love during there life. Dante is told by Francesca da Rimini how she and her husbands brother Paolo Malatesta committed adultery, but then died a violent death, in the name of Love, at the hands of her husband, Giovanni. Francesca reports that their act of adultery was triggered by reading the adulterous story of Lancelot and Guinevere. Nevertheless, she predicts that her husband will be punished for his fratricide in Caina, with in the ninth circle.
(Nikki is doing this Canto)
CANTO 5
In the swamp like water of the river Styx, the wrathful fight each other on the surface, and the sullen lie gurgling beneath the water, withdrawn "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe. Phlegyas reluctantly transports Dante and Virgil across the Styx in his skiff. On the way the are accosted by Filippo Argenti, a black guelph from a prominent family. When Dante was forced to leave Florence, Argenti took all his property. When Dante responds "In weeping and in grieving, accursed spirit, may you long remain," Virgil blesses him. Literally, this reflects the fact that souls in Hell are eternally fixed in the state they have chosen, but allegorically, it reflects Dante's beginning awareness of his own sin.
The lower parts of Hell are contained within the walls of the city of Dis, which itself surrounded by the Stygian marsh. Punished within Dis are active sins. The walls of Dis are guarded by fallen angels. Virgil is unable to convince them to let Dante and him enter, and Dante is threatened by Furies and Medusa. An angel sent from Heaven secures entry for the poets, opening the gate by touching it with a wand, and rebukes those who opposed Dante. Allegorically, this reveals the fact that the poem is beginning to deal with sins that philosophy and humanism cannot fully understand. Virgil also mentions to Dante how Erichtho sent him down to the lowest circle of hell to bring back a spirit from there.
(Marian is doing this Canto)
CANTO 9
The ninth and last circle is ringed by classical and Biblical giants, who perhaps symbolise pride and other spiritual flaws lying behind acts of treachery. The giants are standing on a ledge above the ninth circle of Hell, so that from the Malebolge they are visible from the waist up. They include Nimrod, Ephialtes, Briareus, Tityos, and Typhon. The giant Antaeus lowers Dante and Virgil into the pit that forms the ninth circle of hell.
The Traitors are distinguished from the "merely fraudulent in that their acts involve betraying a special relationship of some kind. There are four concentric zones of traitors. These rounds correspond, in order of seriousness, to betrayal of family ties, betrayal of community ties, betrayal of guests, and betrayal of liege lords. in contrast to the popular image of hell as fiery, the traitors are frozen in a lake of ice known as Cocytus, with each group encased in ice to progressively greater depths.
In the very centre of Hell, condemned for committing the ultimate sin, personal treachery against God, is Satan. Statan is described as a giant, terrifying beast with three faces, one red, one black and one yellow.
Satan is waist deep in ice, weeping tears from his six eyes, and beating his six wings as if trying to escape, although the icy wind that emanates only further ensures his imprisonment. Each face had mouth that chews on a prominent traitor. Brutus and Cassius are feet first in the left and right mouths respectively, for their involvement in the assassination of Julius Caesar an act which, according to Dante, represented the destruction of the unified Italy and the killing of the man who was divinely appointed to govern the world. in the central, most vicious mouth is Judas Iscariot, the namesake of Round 4 and the betrayer of Jesus. Judas is receiving the most horrifying torture of the three traitors: his head gnawed by Satan's mouth, and his back bring forever skinned by Satan's claws. What is seen here is an inverted trinity: Satan is impotent, ignorant, and full of hate, in contrast to the all powerful, all knowing, and loving nature of God.
The two poets escape Hell by climbing Satan's ragged fur. They pass through the centre of the earth with a consequent change in direction of gravity, causing Dante to at first think they are returning to Hell. The pair emerge in the other hemisphere just before dawn on Easter Sunday, beneath a sky studded with stars.
(Paris is doing this Canto)
(Paris is doing this Canto)
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