Bid to win this The Audience Enters the Space MasqerAID Mask by Shoko Kambara!
Artist: Shoko Kambara
Title: "The Audience Enters the Space" MasquerAID Mask
Year created: 2020
Medium: Mixed-Media
Height (inches): 1
Width (inches): 1
Depth (inches): 1
Description of piece:
Every show that I get hired for begins the same way – before I do anything I spend some time building a model box of the space and getting to know the theater so I wanted a mask that was based on a model box of a theatrical space. Along with the model box of the theater, I always make some generic chairs so that I can start thinking about design and movement in the space so I built a couple of quarter inch scale chairs for this mask also. They are loose so whoever gets this can play around with the arrangement like we do during a typical design process! I have always been fascinated by the performer/audience relationship in live performance. Even though the physical relationship between performer and audience is usually the same, the audience member can be an objective observer, a confidant, or sometimes even a co-conspirator for the performer on stage. Putting the wearer of the mask in the model is yet another variation of the relationship of the performer and the audience. Is the mask wearer scenery? Or the performance? Another thought is that by wearing a mask we become anonymous in some way so can observe the world around us “unseen”… so does that make the wearer of the mask an audience member? Maybe all three at once in some way?
Artist bio:
Recent theatrical work: Midwives (world premiere based on book by Chris Bohjalian at George Street Playhouse), Native Gardens (Syracuse Stage/Geva Theatre/Portland Stage), Little Girl Blue (George Street Playhouse), Into the Woods (Hangar Theatre), Holiday Inn (Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival), Always Patsy Cline (FLMTF), Guys and Dolls (FLMTF). Opera work includes I Due Figaro (Manhattan School of Music), The Prince of Players (Houston Grand Opera-world premiere), The Barber of Seville (Opera Philadelphia, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Omaha, Virginia Opera- and continues to be performed around the US). Film work includes The Trial of the Chicago 7 (to be released 2020), Cavan, Summer Fridays. Broadway Associate Design Work: Macbeth, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Man and Boy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Million Dollar Quartet, The Miracle Worker, Ragtime, and 33 Variations.MFA in Scenic Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. BA from Dartmouth College.
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