Audio Projects
Co-Authoring the Future: Stories from the road
Framed by the metaphor of a road trip, this hybrid audio essay explores the use of participatory performance in building cultural discourse about decision-making during the climate crisis. Using Rancière’s concept of the emancipated spectator, common human experiences such as childhood development of subjectivity (acquired through Lacan’s mirror phase and symbolic order) and image schemas (as discussed in Mark Turner’s The Literary Mind) are explored as possible strategies for co-authoring an artistic landscape alongside spectators. An audio narration accompanies the written work, attempting to explore these theories in the form of a correspondence between the author and her elusive self-awareness. Each track reflects on these individual-but-common experiences as a method for creation. The author concludes that a co-authored artistic landscape may only be accessible to participants who are enticed to set aside limiting social norms in order to explore it, and this is the challenge of the artist.
A "sound e-scape" collaboration between Eryfili Drakopoulou and Jessica Renfro with contributions from the Master of Theatre Practices program at ArtEZ University in the Netherlands and Scuola per attori "Orazio Costa" in Firenze, Italy.
How does your skin feel?
What does your skin look like?
When you look at your skin, what do you remember?
