Conversation Script
Conversation Script stems from an invitation of Koreografisk Journal, a Swedish Magazine on experimental choreography, to contribute to their upcoming issue that focused on the relationship between choreography and text as interrelated expressions within choreographic practice. The source material for this work is a conversation between Alice Mac Kenzie and Benedict Olk, whom where invited to improvise a fictional dialogue between Ophelia and Hamlet in the context of my MA research project. My intention with this work is to weaken the power of language in its own environment by leading it back to the body. Hence the idea of establishing rules for the transcription of the entire conversation, to generate a text that reflects the density of space and time and dissolves the clear separation between two subjects in dialogue. The result is a text printed on 21 transparents that can be layered on top of each other (as in the digital version above), or rearranged by an interactive audience.
Credits
Concept and development: Mirko Guido
Source text: Alice Mac Kenzie and Benedict Olk
Assistance and advice to transcription: Benedict Olk
Graphic assistance: Francesco Giannone
Technical advise: Valerio Nicoletti
Published on Koreografisk Journal #5. Presented in its physical-interactive version during the release evening at c.off (Stockholm) 2018, and within the MA research project presentation at DOCH/SKH (Stockholm) 2019