Today's Question: Describe how transformation was used in your surreal object performance. What was the effect you observed as an audience member watching the transformation and use of color and music?
Yeah, so we're occasionally doing this sort of thing now, where our journals are more about answering a question that recounting events.
So as the question would suggest, our main task today was a performance in groups. Essentially, we were given five objects (that one would find in a dream) that we had to form as groups - a lobster telephone; a flower with human legs for petals; a half-woman half-alligator (this one was interesting as my group was entirely male); and a melted head on a crutch - and then transformed from one to another.
The transformation helped very much with the feeling of the performance taking place in a dreamlike, surreal state, as well as allowing for the transitions between each object to be less jarring and more... almost confusing, I guess. Something along those lines. I know what I'm talking about, I just can't work out what the words are.
Of course, we weren't the only group who did such a performance, which brings us to the second part of the question. One of the other groups, after performing theirs, were then asked to perform it again with different lighting. The angle of the lighting had a large effect, to begin with - lit from below, the performance seemed much more mysterious and not a little more hostile - but the colours also affected the mood greatly - blue makes it feel more dreamlike, green simply enhances the surrealism of it all and red lighting created a very noticeable sense of foreboding and aggression.
Now here's a cat.
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