2010年3月14日

第一堂课 Lesson 1 - Image Theatre

一开始，我们进行了几个活动算是帮忙暖身，让我们的感训练我们在视觉想像方面的能力。之后我们便开始进行一些和 image 有直接关系的活动。

视觉想像  主题：男人、女人、政府  

我们可以从听到的声音去想像画面其实是非常有趣的联系。这似乎证明了我们对一些概念建构了既定的印象。有时候这些刻板印象搞得我们啼笑皆非，但好笑的不是那个形态而是我们想像的方式。

在麻将纸上画画  

-              想一个和不公正有关的故事。然后画一个和故事有关的一个图像。

   通过声音做联系   

-        现在想一个能够代表你的故事的声音。

-        闭上眼睛在空间走动并发出那个声音。

-        仔细地聆听，通过大家发出地声音去寻找和你有类似或相同经验的人并和他们形成小组然后在小组内分享你们的故事。

在15分钟内创作一个反模范   Creating an anti-model in 15 minutes

-        从分享的故事当中，选择其中一个故事并由故事创作一个反模范

-        想想这些问题：

（1）什么是压迫？

（2）什么是可被介入／可行的论坛剧场？

（3）什么是论坛剧场？

 在呈现了个别的反模范之后，我们进行了一些讨论：

- 什么是权利？什么是权力？

我们需要为自己争取权利吗？又或者这应该是与生俱来，我们本来就应该有的？在怎样的情况下，我们会失去这些权力？是法律、政府还是我们的生长环境会决定权利的支配？

- 什么是empowerment?

试着想想这个情况：

老板压迫他的员工。后来他的员工联合起来“对付他”，那我们可以说这个老板现在被他的员工压迫吗？

我想大家现在都没有一个确定或是所谓的正确答案，毕竟我们也才刚刚开始学习。但我们会在训练的过程中不断地提醒自己有关于这些问题。希望在上完所有的课以后，我们能找到自己的答案。 

Visualizing image

Theme: Man, woman, government

The fact that we visualize an image with the sound that is let out shows how we construct the concept of gender or simply the way to understand the other gender. The stereotypical images produced can be really hilarious, not in the way the image is done but we have imagined certain things.

Drawing something on the mahjong paper

Think of a story with regards to injustice,  draw an image of the story on the mahjong paper, then connect the different images.  

Making connections through sounds

-       Think of a sound that can represent your story then move around in the space while making that sound with your eyes closed.

-       By listening to the different sounds, look out for sounds, which you think, represent similar stories or experience as you. Form a group with them and share the story. Choose one of the stories and create an anti-model from there.

-       Keep these questions in mind

(1) What is oppression?

(2) What can be intervened?

What are rights? What is power?

Do we need to fight for our rights? Or it should be something that we are entitled to from the moment we are born? Under what circumstances are the rights “taken away” from us? Law? Government? Our living environment as a whole?

-             What is empowerment?

-             Think about this scenario:

-             A boss oppressed his employees. When all his employees “gang up” and turn  against him/ ostracized  him, can we say that the boss is now oppressed by his  employees?

-             I guess all ARTivators do not have the perfect and correct answers to these    questions now that we are  only at the very beginning of the lessons. BUT, we  will be keeping these questions in mind throughout  our training process.  Hopefully, at the end of the lessons, we will be able to figure out something for  ourselves. You can keep these questions in mind too! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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艺树人是本地剧场戏剧盒旗下的青年部，由12位充满热忱的年轻人组成的团体。我们希望能通过戏剧对各阶层的民众有更深入的了解和联系。

艺树人的创立是为了提供青年一个多方面训练的平台。通过三年的培训，艺树人希望能培育处一群拥有文化和社会意识的本地戏剧实践者。

我们使用一个名为O-A-O-R （ Orientation – Artistic – Organisation – Regeneration/ 定向 – 艺术性 – 组织 – 再生 ）的模式，让青年们得到的不仅是艺术方面的训练，也学习组织群体和制作管理的技能。除此之外，他们会接触到各种类的戏剧，例如论坛剧场、新闻剧场等等。他们同时还会接受其他艺术形体的培训，如音乐和多媒体。

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2012 年将会是第一届艺树人青年的最后一年。我们将会在毕业前呈现一部作品，而灵感来至于高行健的《车站》。这作品会是艺树人培训三年来的精髓，也是我们对于原作和现今社会的反思。

About ARTivate

ARTivate - the youth wing of local theatre company Drama Box - is made up of a group of 12 passionate youths who aims to reach out to the community through the arts.

ARTivate was first established with the aim to provide a platform for youths who want to explore and gain all-rounded insight into theatre. Through a three-year program, ARTivate hopes to nurture a group of youths into cultured and socially aware theatre-practitioners in Singapore.

Using an O-A-O-R (Orientation-Artistic-Organization-Regeneration) model, these youths are trained not only artistically but also in organizational skills and production management. They will be exposed to different forms of theatre such as Forum Theatre and Newspaper Theatre. They will also be trained in other art forms such as music and multimedia.

Besides bringing awareness to the themes explored, ARTivators hopes to question, probe or even challenge minds. They want to engage audiences in discussion – to turn monologues into dialogues.

As 2012 will the last year of the pioneer batch of ARTivate youths, they will be putting up a piece of performance, Bus Stop, inspired by “Bus Stop” written by renowned playwright, Gao Xing Jian. This performance will be a collation of the trainings the youths had undergone for the past 3 years, as well as a critical perspective and evaluation of the script, in reference to the current society the youths are in.