Freiraum’s Mobile Stage is a tool available to all the Freiraum partners and similarly minded initiatives, who share the vision to activate public spaces and communities, providing a common ground for participatory performative and collective actions.
ABOUT FREIRAUM'S MOBILE STAGE
The Mobile Stage is a tool for creating a safe space for people from various backgrounds and disciplines to explore, learn and create together, through different art forms and engagement formats. As it does not need specialised knowledge, it functions as an "equaliser", a field for experimentation with others. Thanks to its modular design and creative usage of light, the Mobile Stage gives the freedom to imagine a large variety of setups, shapes and forms, adaptable to different spaces and conditions. Users are encouraged to see (public) space as a space that allows for dynamic relationships to emerge; as a void that can be appropriated and designed by the People, and through the definition of the various interdependent functions and roles: space for action, space for watching, and the tension between the two. This is highlighted further by the fact that the Stage has no borders - its limits are transparent, defined only by light, bringing fluidity and interchangeability to the different elements.
TECHNICAL MANUAL
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MOBILE STAGE MANIFESTO
This is not a stage.
This is a tool to activate (public) spaces and communities through artistic and performative interventions.
This is a set of building units that can be installed to respond to different needs and circumstances.
This is a platform for dialogue and exchange.
This is a tool to design the void.
This is a tool to design the audience.
This is a light installation.
This is a set of 25 light beams, 50 stools and 8 boxes.
This is a tool to activate (public) spaces and communities through artistic and performative interventions.
This is a set of building units that can be installed to respond to different needs and circumstances.
This is a platform for dialogue and exchange.
This is a tool to design the void.
This is a tool to design the audience.
This is a light installation.
This is a set of 25 light beams, 50 stools and 8 boxes.
DESIGN BACKGROUND
The Mobile Stage was initially conceived in the context of Project LABattoir by ArtBOX.gr (2017-2019; www.labattoir.org), based on an idea of the Theatre Committee of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. It was designed through a series of participatory workshops organised by Project LABattoir with the support of Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki.
DESIGN & CONCEPTUALISATION WORKSHOPS (DECEMBER 2018)
Experts: Sotirios Bahtsetzis (art theorist), Evangelia Kirkine (stage designer), Petros Martinidis (architect, Professor Emeritus at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Christof Mayer (architect, raumlaborberlin), Yiannis Paraskevopoulos (theatre director), Savvas Patsalidis (theatre critic, Professor at the English Literature Department - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Elsi Sakellaridou (theatrologist, Professor Emeritus at the English Literature Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Bilal Yılmaz (insterdisciplinary artist, designer-maker).
Scientific Supervision: Janna Tsokou (Theatrologist, Head of the Theatre Committee of the Municipality of Thessaloniki) in collaboration with the Theatre Committee.
Masters of the Ceremony: Coalesce Collective (creative group of architects, artists and urban planners)
FINAL CONCEPT DESIGN
Bilal Yılmaz - with the contribution of workshop participants.
DESIGN & CONCEPTUALISATION WORKSHOPS (DECEMBER 2018)
Experts: Sotirios Bahtsetzis (art theorist), Evangelia Kirkine (stage designer), Petros Martinidis (architect, Professor Emeritus at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Christof Mayer (architect, raumlaborberlin), Yiannis Paraskevopoulos (theatre director), Savvas Patsalidis (theatre critic, Professor at the English Literature Department - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Elsi Sakellaridou (theatrologist, Professor Emeritus at the English Literature Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Bilal Yılmaz (insterdisciplinary artist, designer-maker).
Scientific Supervision: Janna Tsokou (Theatrologist, Head of the Theatre Committee of the Municipality of Thessaloniki) in collaboration with the Theatre Committee.
Masters of the Ceremony: Coalesce Collective (creative group of architects, artists and urban planners)
FINAL CONCEPT DESIGN
Bilal Yılmaz - with the contribution of workshop participants.