In 2013, I started collaborating with Gaetano Chianese in the performative installation entitled "Hamlet Waiting for Godot". This project consisted of a script and several audiovisual contents. The piece challenged the central role of the text conveying the messages of a theatrical performance. The text, nobilitated by labyrinthine references to Classics, was yet reduced to a theatrical prop.
19 characters populated the original scene as both actual presences and projected images. The original characters roles number was reduced by considering their actantial models, or 'structural' roles. Then, their actions transposed to the audience through the features of the scene.
A pavilion, gathering together text and performative actions in a reclusive physical environment, was chosen to replace the performance's original scene set. In this way, its visitors were considered both spectators and active characters of the play. The performers' actions substituted by the audience perfomance.
The 4 archetypical roles of the piece are hosted in intersecting volumes that oblige the audience to adapt their movements according to the scripted action of the characters. Distinct audio recordings featuring extracts from the piece, original music and historical document are reproduced in each volume.
The script became part of the scene: it was substitu- ted by QR codes embossed on the external facade of the pavilion linking each face of the object to both acts of the play and multi- media contents hosted in the website http://hwfg.altervista.org/ .
For the fabrication of the pavilion, 168 EPS70 sheets (2400 x 1200 x 25 mm) were cut and assembled in modules with vinyl glue in approximately 2 weeks at the MAKLab, the first open access digital fabrication studio in Scotland.
Eventually the pavilion was partially exhibited at 'The Lighthouse', the Scotland's centre for Design and Architecture.
