PROJECT PROPOSAL
“The Birds”

Aims
My research is based on Kant’s theory through Aristophanes’ work. In his plays, I explore human imagination as a creator of another reality as the imagination is the mean used by the characters so as to change their conditions of life.
The autonomy of fantasy creates here a whole society among the sky and the earth, as a result the world of reality and the world of hypereality are distinct, yet in the same time they coexist.
As the choice of the space is characteristic and as the set design is the field I focus on, the main aim of this project is the construction of a set based on “The Birds”. The spectator should be free to create, with the help of the set and of his fantasy, another dimension of reality.

Methodology
Research:
a) As the starting point of the play is situated in a real community of citizens the first research area was the construction of modern societies, towns, buildings, and in general, the contemporary way of living.
b) Ways to escape from the above: 1. mental ways: fantasy
2. practical ways: travel, flying



Conclusion of research-Proposal:
Buildings-made by seeds of wood-create a corridor. The spectator wears a mask, which remind bird, but also the mask of Zanni, which the doctors during the Black Death used to wear. He walks through the corridor and the buildings he passes start to getting smaller and smaller, giving him the impression he flies. In the end, he watches himself looking like a bird in a mirror in the end of the corridor.

Process
- Design of the set
- Decision of materials and colors (wood, fabric, mirror, pale colors)
- Construction of the set (buildings, corridor, sky, mask, lights)
- Editing of back round music(street, cars, construction of buildings,
saws)

Implementation
A computer
Speakers
Lights