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ØBS
La Fura dels Baus
ØBS, the seventh show of the group within the "furero" style, is also a new example of Digital Theatre based on a technological-stage language in which real elements coexist with virtual elements. It is a journey that incorporates NOUN, M.T.M., FMOL, Faust Shadow and L’Home del Mil.lenni (The Millennial Man). |
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Going one
step further, ØBS, achieves what Jacques Polieri termed "absolute
virtual movement", that is a movement obtained by the simultaneity of
the real movement of the actors and spectators in the space, the movement
of the virtual images (stereoscopic images projected), and the movement,
in turn, of the sources generating the virtual images (in ØBS, they are
huge, mobile television monitors that evolve according to the dramaturgy
of the show). This way, action and perception occur together in 3D, creating
perceptive alterations, optical illusions and visual syntheses.
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In ØBS, the activated image constitutes a challenge, not only to our classical concepts regarding image itself, but also in relation to the theatrical production. Thus, the ØBS spectators will receive a pair of typical polarised eyeglasses that will enable them to have stereoscopic vision. (The glasses are an optical instrument through which a duplicated image, when seen individually by each eye, appears as a single image in relief). To this alteration of perception are added the stereoscopic holograms produced by the projection of live images in 3D. These images are different from the real images in that, being polarised, a series of splitting effects are created (the images break into vertical and horizontal planes, produce sparkles and flashes...) depending on how the light enters the camera lenses. They are, in effect, optical illusions that envelop the audience and submerge it in new perceptive environments. |
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As a
result of all this, ØBS has a complex mise en scène based
on the mobility of the images and of the theatre itself that results
in a performace incorporating two dramaturgical forms: story and
perception, the latter being based on the immediacy of the images
and on the possibility of shortening distances, of selecting, of
enlarging... Thus, for example, the battle between machines and
actors that takes place at the beginning of the show is later echoed
in the visual dimension, born from the union between image and technical
media: a true battle of images, a flood of illusory copies that
surrounds the spectator. |
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On
the threshold of the 21st century, the myth of Plato’s cave appears
once again as a metaphor full of light amid our confusion of virtual
and simulated realities. Possibly today philosophers are more interested
in the so-called sciences of the brain, in order to explore the
brain by way of visual perceptions that will involve interactive
functions between the individual and the artificial universes that
have arisen out of technology. |
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