Fragments of Encounters

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dc.contributor.advisorCrewe, Jenni-Lee
dc.contributor.advisorJackï Job
dc.contributor.authorBlum, Nomi
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-30T10:17:55Z
dc.date.available2020-12-30T10:17:55Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractFRAGMENTS OF ENCOUNTERS is an experimental interactive performance project operating within a 'practice as research' (PaR) paradigm-defined as a continually emergent and open-ended process. The participation and interaction of the audience and the feedback received from lecturers and fellow students were central to the development of this research and are integrated in my work. Description of this feedback and its impact will be visible throughout this paper. I will be engaging with my research through the lens of two performances, fragments of encounters 1 & 2, which act as embodiments to my research. The work(s) is a narrative about lives relieved through memory and whose re-narration gives rise to a new present time-that of the narrative, which is the performance. The subject of my research is fragment(ation) seen through the prism of memory, however, not as a main subject but close to Henri Bergson's shining points, round which other subjects 'form a vague nebulosity' (2002:171). The making of this project began in the street; from my interaction with people of different ages and from different socio-political and cultural realities. These encounters make up a personal audio archive of oral interviews recorded, which serves as the source material for my project. The recorded material are life-fragments-memories of the people interviewed and fragments of my own. Overlapping with Herman Parret's (1988) vision, for whom 'life' is a narrative and the narration time is an 'invented' time, the archive I present in my practice is a 'construct', and the re-fragmentation of the fragments of memories in the work opens a field of possibilities of interpretation. Some of these possible reinterpretations are actualised at each re-narration. This in turn opens new interpretations, possibilities or actualisations. By fragmentation and re-narration a mosaic of fragments-memories originate, which are in effect re-narratives... ad infinitum. In the same time, the possibilities that remained unactualised, not narrated, but which are virtual real, amplify the state of tension and uncertainty provoked by fragmentation, which in the end can lead to chaos.
dc.identifier.apacitationBlum, N. (2020). <i>Fragments of Encounters</i>. (Master Thesis). University of Cape Town. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32450en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBlum, Nomi. <i>"Fragments of Encounters."</i> Master Thesis., University of Cape Town, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32450en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBlum, N. 2020. Fragments of Encounters. Master Thesis. University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32450en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Master Thesis AU - Blum, Nomi AB - FRAGMENTS OF ENCOUNTERS is an experimental interactive performance project operating within a 'practice as research' (PaR) paradigm-defined as a continually emergent and open-ended process. The participation and interaction of the audience and the feedback received from lecturers and fellow students were central to the development of this research and are integrated in my work. Description of this feedback and its impact will be visible throughout this paper. I will be engaging with my research through the lens of two performances, fragments of encounters 1 & 2, which act as embodiments to my research. The work(s) is a narrative about lives relieved through memory and whose re-narration gives rise to a new present time-that of the narrative, which is the performance. The subject of my research is fragment(ation) seen through the prism of memory, however, not as a main subject but close to Henri Bergson's shining points, round which other subjects 'form a vague nebulosity' (2002:171). The making of this project began in the street; from my interaction with people of different ages and from different socio-political and cultural realities. These encounters make up a personal audio archive of oral interviews recorded, which serves as the source material for my project. The recorded material are life-fragments-memories of the people interviewed and fragments of my own. Overlapping with Herman Parret's (1988) vision, for whom 'life' is a narrative and the narration time is an 'invented' time, the archive I present in my practice is a 'construct', and the re-fragmentation of the fragments of memories in the work opens a field of possibilities of interpretation. Some of these possible reinterpretations are actualised at each re-narration. This in turn opens new interpretations, possibilities or actualisations. By fragmentation and re-narration a mosaic of fragments-memories originate, which are in effect re-narratives... ad infinitum. In the same time, the possibilities that remained unactualised, not narrated, but which are virtual real, amplify the state of tension and uncertainty provoked by fragmentation, which in the end can lead to chaos. DA - 2020 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - Fragments of Encounters TI - Fragments of Encounters UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32450 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/32450
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBlum N. Fragments of Encounters. [Master Thesis]. University of Cape Town, 2020 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32450en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Cape Town
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Drama
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.subject.otherTheatre and Performance
dc.subject.otherTheatre-making
dc.titleFragments of Encounters
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMA
uct.type.publicationResearch
uct.type.resourceMaster Thesis
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