Orlando as a biographical play, Virginia Woolf integrated the historical period across 500 years with the life experience. I want to focus on the contrast between the exterior and the interior, telling how Orlando's inner space touches the outer space while adapting to various societies, and Orlando's subjective impression. By highlighting the important parts of her impression and exaggerating them, bring the recognisable real-world and the abstract impression together.
The set results in an abstract and minimalist style approach. These two moveable solid facades with regular openings sit on a circular track, used to shift Orlando's journey. The facade is static for most of the time, but it will turn quickly when the period changes or things happen, symbolising the inner influence of Orlando. Also, different moods would make the facades composited in different angles.
The space surrounds by the facades allows Orlando's impression of the world to inhabit. On the facades will appear the projection, representing the image of the real world in his mind, and express the transformation of both spatial and emotional. The important elements of impression are chosen for the projection instead of showing a real scene.
Enci (Stacey)
Cong
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Performance Design
Enci Cong is a set designer who has recently finished her undergraduate study of the Bachelor of Performance Design at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). She also has an architecture and construction background and hopes to become a multi-discipline designer in order to manipulate space from many perspectives.
Interested in digital design, she was also very willing to try some digital modeling and programming to integrate stage performance design into new media technology creation, and organically combine multi-sensory experience and artistic dimension space. She is also very interested in public art and site-specific performances.
Enci's design work at VCA includes Black Medea by Wesley Enoch and Orlando by Virginia Woolf. She also has independent projects as Hypatia from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
Orlando