"I don´t like puppets!“ : reasons and inspiration for founding object theatre
Kalda, Kadri (2012)
Kalda, Kadri
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2012061212541
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2012061212541
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The topic of my thesis is founding object theatre. The ground for object theatre was perfect to come into being in the 1980´s. There were mainly two reasons and a lot of inspiration for it. One of the biggest reasons was the puppetry back then, the puppets had mostly form of little humans, who were pedagogical very correct. Object theatre pioneers wanted to take distance from it. Secondly was the matter of mass producing and mass consuming trough what people after World War II wanted to feel happiness and carelessness. The fabricated ready-made objects were the tool, with what the object theatre makers started to work against the mass consuming.
Object theatre makers felt a lot of inspiration of many movements and persons in the recent history of art. Mostly in the photography and cinema area, because of similar technical manners. Also Dadaism played big role in the presence of an object and the unusual narrative dramaturgy.
Very often the puppeteers make the mistake of taking an object under the style “object theatre” and animate it as if it is a puppet. The very main principal and biggest difference with puppetry is that the objects are not manipulated. The performer acts through material, creates spaces, meanings.
Object theatre makers felt a lot of inspiration of many movements and persons in the recent history of art. Mostly in the photography and cinema area, because of similar technical manners. Also Dadaism played big role in the presence of an object and the unusual narrative dramaturgy.
Very often the puppeteers make the mistake of taking an object under the style “object theatre” and animate it as if it is a puppet. The very main principal and biggest difference with puppetry is that the objects are not manipulated. The performer acts through material, creates spaces, meanings.