In response to this research, both designs reconsider the relationship between the human and non-human in performance-making. By placing the non-human in the position of performer and artist, the scenographer becomes a liaison between the non-human performer and the human audience member.

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i | the outcome

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With Haeweon Yi’s play ‘So This Is The Last Apple Pie’ acting as stimulus, this seed concept positions the apple as both performer and designer. By taking Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the apple’s body and layering the images together as a time-lapse, the audience is granted a window into the fruit’s inner structure and form through non-destructive and sympathetic means. Purely through the virtue of the individual apple’s own design, the shifting and dynamic patterns can be compared to a choreographed dance. This is then displayed as projected vision content on various surfaces in public spaces, encouraging members of the public to become an audience to the familiar apple from a new perspective.

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ii | the ecoscenographic framework

 

As defined by Tanja Beer, an ecoscenographic design process is marked by three cycles inspired by functioning ecosystems; co-creation, celebration, and circulation.

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co-creation

While the apple itself is a key collaborator, the vision content is generated by researchers and scientists conducting medical imaging of fruit for the purpose of disease prevention and conservation. As such, the piece becomes a collaboration between multiple parties: the apple, the conservationist, the scenographer and the audience.

 

celebration 

Projected in public spaces, the beautiful and dynamic designs of the apple are made visible, when normally they would remain inaccessible except through destructive means such as cutting and exposing to oxidisation. 

 

circulation 

This concept sits in circulation with ecological and agricultural researchers by recycling the digital vision content produced as part of these projects, utilising it to a fuller degree in consideration of the energy expenditure involved in initial generation.