The New Stage:
Klypi has shared that as a musician and performer, it is particularly difficult to realize authentic and creative connection with audiences in a time where public health requires social distancing. Without concert venues and shared physical spaces, it can be difficult to perform and to realize energy similar to live platforms, especially when the current spaces and presentations of performance lack the design for such engagement. How might we re-imagine our current spaces in ways that better support our performance with these limitations?
Activity: Setting up an intentional space of performance in one's shelter and documenting it via camera phone, etc.
Steps:
First, identify a space in your home where you currently or could potentially use for your zoom meetings, video posts, etc. Try to pick a space that you specifically would use to create and share/stream a performance.
Next, imagine that this space will be a "stage" for you to perform for an audience that you engage virtually. Even if you're not a practicing artist, what might you perform on this stage? A song? A reading of your or another's poetry or prose? A dramatic monologue?
Once you've chosen the nature of what you will perform, sit with your "stage" and make 3 changes to customize it specifically as a space for your performance. Focus on the following three elements:
Light: How might you alter the light (naturally or otherwise) to properly serve your performance?
Curtain: What object(s) might serve as a "curtain" to conceal and reveal elements of you and your performance?
Backstage Request: What treats, indulgences, or demands would you make for proper preparation to perform? All green M&Ms, crustless bread sandwiches? Choose one and place it in your stage space. Remember though, you have to fulfill this request.
Once your stage is set, take a photo of it and share it with us!
Clip from Klypi’s Visit:
ABOUT KLYPI:
Klypi will be a participating artist in the exhibition Music.Video. which will run in our 2021 exhibition season AND will be one of our first Artists-in-Residence.
Klypi is the alt-pop musical persona of AC Carter: artist & curator currently based in Athens, GA. Klypi's music is based on trauma and heartbreak, hoping to express these emotions through humor, gender deviancy, and being "a-little nasty". Previously known as Lambda Celsius, AC has self-released 2 full length albums, a noise compilation through Phinery Records in Denmark, has performed at numerous venues and art openings such as Vesna Pavlović's Mixtape, has performed at Big Ears Festival, Athens Popfest, and Secret Stages, and has opened for artists such as Molly Nilsson, John Maus, of Montreal, and Girlpool. Currently, AC is finishing up Klypi's first full length with musical artist Precious Child, a much needed turn in AC's personal quest for growth and identity.
https://www.klypi.com/
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