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Architecture of Spacetime Set-designing and Installing. Case Studies Robert Willson and James Turrell
Kučerová, Kristýna ; Chovanec, Samuel (referee) ; Mitášová, Monika (advisor)
The work deals with a detailed analysis and comparison of two works by theater director Robert Wilson and visual artist James Turrell - the production Dorian (2022) and the series of architectural installation-staging spaces Skyspace (from 1980). In their work, experimental director Robert Wilson (1941, USA) and experimental visual artist James Turrell (1943, USA) also deal with the question of reflection and introspection of human perception of a work of art: staging space in theater and staged space in visual art and architecture. Both of these artists are fascinated by light, which they work with as a means of creating space, and an instrument of time perception. By combining intensities, colors of light, shadow, darkness, their transformations and mutual framing, they create unique visual-spatial arrangements. The precisely composed, stylized and controlled staging environment leads the audience to experience space and time and to reflect on them in a completely unconventional way: for Wilson, by changing perception thanks to precise rhythmization and high stage stylization of movement and stasis, and for Turrell thanks to specially calculated, constructed and illuminated installation-staging environments. It is the change, introspection and reflection of the perception of these phenomena that is the common factor, the main mission of both artists. They try to bring the audience into a reflexive and perhaps also contemplative, almost meditative state, where they themselves experience and become aware of how, and if at all, they perceive with one, several or all of their senses. Through experience, description, but also analytical and comparative diagrams, the diploma thesis examines what are the common and individual properties of specific works that induce reflection of staged sensory experiences and perceptions, how individual experienced and precisely measurable phenomena and elements can affect the audience, whether one prevails over others and to what extent or in what way they are interrelated. What times and spaces do they create, and what is or is not theatrical and architectural about them?
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