EGOTISM ORBIT

MY TALK AT ROBERT WILSONS WATERMILL CENTER, NY   - LINK to video

THE TALK WAS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK I'M WRITING ABOUT INTER-DISCIPLINARY SET DESIGN AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE RESEARCH WAS ABOUT AT THE WATER MILL CENTER, WHILE I WAS THE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE THERE.

Set design is an art form that actually can draw on several other artistic disciplines and integrate some of them in itself and its expression. Set design is a wildly interesting topic which really is visual communication, that can comment on cultural events and generate debates in society. Set design, when it is interesting, has moved far away from visual social realism in theater and backdrop painting, to abstract space structures. Which simultaneously can convey messages that support the other elements on stage, if there is a stage!
I chose to study set design, because the profession itself draws both from art, literature, psychology, philosophy, communication and anthropology. Each fields which I was enormously interested in, and therefore not able to decide which area to focus on.