Communication through artifact creation
James Vincent Ogden · Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library) · 2014
Communication Through Artifact Creation was an opportunity to design an installation of artifacts in a new and provocative way.Using the inherent properties of the objects contained within the context of the installation as the performative event, the audience was able to shape their own narrative around these objects.Usually, as a scenic designer, I am shaping a space that performers are allowed into but the audience is not.There is a predefined narrative text that is the key element informing the designer artifacts that I make as a representation of the sculpted theatrical space a performance will take place in.For this exhibit the artifacts designed by me and eleven other artists informed the structure that would house them, and the performative journey is open to the interpretation of the audience's imagination.