IKON
A MODERN MONOLOGUE
Trials at Grusomhetens Theatre
September 2005

IKON - a theatre project (monologue) by Moterboard with a new manuscript by Jon Erik Riley, actor Hauk Heyerdahl director Runar Hodne and Per Platou.

IKON was first described as theatre influenced by the notion of synaesthesia earlier in my project. (1) Since then the project has undergone several transformations. No longer based on the life of the dance icon, Nijinsky, or on idols from pop culture, the new version is a meta-work where a wanna-be documentary film maker envisages the making of his film, and the text explores modes of naration/story telling. Synaesthetic influences are used as sensory under text, also in relation to cause and effect.

Through this process I'm going to try out techniques that are new to me that I plan to install in the organ: controlling lights via dmx/lan, and dispensing smells via my newly-aquired airbrush and air compressor system.

IMG: 8 airbrushes with 8 aromas: coffee, oil/steamtrain, clinical hospital, lavender, rose, whisky, bacon and sports changing room fixed on a round stool.

We will eventually select 3 aromas for the performance. The question remains as to whether the aromas should be released from the stage, or hidden from the public.

I'll also use 4 video cameras connected to 4 TV's for visuals to create a sense of space disturbance and as a reference to the media world. Lights will partially be controlled by sound. They will be used to evoke the feeling of a studio setting, to influence the video image and to create long shadows (passing of time). Some of these notions are represented in the stage plan below (click on img for higher resolution).

IMG: Stage plan, Ikon.

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NOTES:

(1) Earlier project descriptions:

IKON. February 2004. Nijinsky version

MEETING. Jan 2005

IKON. Pop culture version

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