a play as a landscape

A play as a landscape is a venture between architecture and theatre. Taking from Le Cabine dell'Elba by architect Aldo Rossi, it translates -literally- Gertrude Stein’s thought on theatre; intended not as a place of narration but as a landscape. To stage it is a performative installation that dramatizes the passage of time in relation to the presence of an object. This object, in this case, consists of a cluster of houses with vaguely human proportions that contains a multitude of stories, an urban landscape built paradoxically on the absence of men, with which, however, the onlookers empathize thanks to their willingness to listening. The observation of the object is transformed into a real experience: through colour, materials, light, plasticity and image -elements generally secondary in the theatre- the installation calls into question the usual way of reading an architecture or a sculpture, wondering how to sculpt time through stasis and movement.
Viewers are invited to slow down their sense of time to confront the ineffable movement of architecture. In this way the reality and its representation are explored, provoking different feelings through the simple positioning of an object in front of people who share with it the same time and space.