● How do Permanence, Play Space Transformation, Spatial Layout, Light & Sound, Temperature and Visual Management manifest in your project?
Permanence: We'll ask people to stand up and come, since we can't leave the chairs or tables.
Play Space Transformation: I think we don't really need to transform the space but we'll use a projector.
Spatial Layout: We'll use the vertical long space in the restaurant.
Light & Sound, Temperature: We thought about using the light to show the time-stop stuff, but decided not to use it. And for the background sound, we'll use the music that fits to our story.
A guide to understanding the news and making good choices
● Choose a news topic and curate a set of links to articles you believe reflect a balanced, and real, portrayal of the story.
Topic: South Korea
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/06/the-k-pop-wannabes-a-photo-essay
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/04/us-dismisses-south-koreas-launch-of-world-first-5g-network-as-stunt
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/22/metoo-k-pop-music-industry-sexaul-assault-scandals-korean-cultural-life
The Religious Nature of Theatre, the Theatrical Nature of Religion
● React to this statement quote by author Madeline L’Engle, “when we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe... the only way we have to grope toward the infinite is through myth.”
We have to learn life through the myths. Otherwise, we won't learn how to live. For me, it's like history. It's true that myths and religion explain history and vise versa.
Ritual and the Quest for Meaning
● Why are rituals important?
Ritual is what we call the weird acts of strange people.
A ritual can be recognized by its similarity to and yet distinctive difference, and therefore strangeness, from common, everyday acts. Ronald Grimes has defined rituals as “sequences of ordinary action rendered special by virtue of their condensation, elevation, or stylization.”
● Name 5 rituals you practice and why you follow them
Ancestral rites, a visit to one's ancestral graves, New Year's bow... I don't think I did other rituals.
The reason why I follow these is that my family have done it since I was born. And I have educated to do it every year in my country. To be honest, I don't want to do it. We do it to gather all relatives and talk with them. But preparing the food for rituals is all taken by women and takes so long time.
● Why are rituals important?
Ritual is what we call the weird acts of strange people.
A ritual can be recognized by its similarity to and yet distinctive difference, and therefore strangeness, from common, everyday acts. Ronald Grimes has defined rituals as “sequences of ordinary action rendered special by virtue of their condensation, elevation, or stylization.”
● Name 5 rituals you practice and why you follow them
Ancestral rites, a visit to one's ancestral graves, New Year's bow... I don't think I did other rituals.
The reason why I follow these is that my family have done it since I was born. And I have educated to do it every year in my country. To be honest, I don't want to do it. We do it to gather all relatives and talk with them. But preparing the food for rituals is all taken by women and takes so long time.
