Stage Magic
2021 Summer
Graduate Thesis
Design Advisor: Jackilin Hah Bloom
Theory Consultant: Jasmine Benyamin
2021 Merit Graduate Thesis Prize
The thesis aims to create a performance of a synthetic sensory experience in the scope of a theatre space. The revealing of the backstage mechanism and its bleeding into the frontstage is the key agenda of the performance. The result is also an exploration of the digital simulation software, Houdini.
The thesis is a performance of both the ending result, and the process of making. The ending result generated from the Houdini logic of forms blending and evolving is a synthetic sensory experience of both frontstage and backstage, a juxtaposition between soft-edges, natural assets and crisp edges of architectural elements, a conversation between 2D projections and 3D structural elements, a sense of orientation with being above, being fronted, being surrounded.