As the title suggests, this post is all about the winter exhibition, and what grade 8 did for it. Our main goal was to make 3 tableaux, one in the renaissance time, another in current day, and the last in the medieval times. We would then incorporate 7 different aspects of worldview into those tableaux, including: Time, geography, society, values, knowledge, beliefs, and economy (and of course our representations had to relate to that specific time frame.) Which we would later present in full to a live audience.

Going way back to the start of the project, when we were just newly equipped with the knowledge from our previous project (where we did many similar things to this.) We had to make yet another artwork choice chart, but this time for the Renaissance, which will hold those same 7 representations of worldview. Just like the last project, we would also combine the 7 representations we filled out with a main image to create something that looked like this: (1/7 representations being shown above, and the main image below)

I will admit, there are a bit too many people in this photo above, but it doesn’t matter, because I would need  something to do this next part of the project; the artwork explanation, which is just as simple as it sounds. Write a few paragraphs about what your art is and what it means, and then have a conclusion and an introduction.

We did many other small things in this project, but lets just get to the exciting part; the exhibition. What are we doing for the exhibition? Again, 3 tableau’s performed with a group in front of a live audience, with props to explain 7 different representations of worldview in a specific time. Something we wouldn’t present but had to make, is a digital triptych of our three tableau’s, which ended up looking like this:

 

Now, about the presentation of this whole thing. We had three scripts for three presenters, one person would explain our medieval tableau, one person would explain the renaissance tableau, and another would explain the contemporary one. I could not find a video of how it looked on the exhibition night, but this drawing and rehearsal video should help you picture what it looked like:

 Keep in mind that this video is a rehearsal, and is not identical to the finished product.

In conclusion, this project was a lot of fun and I actually enjoyed presenting to a live audience, but if I were to do it again, the one thing I would change is: organizing the backstage! Because, it got really messy trying to put on costumes and move props when your backstage looks like a zoo, other than that, the audience was respectful, clean up and set up weren’t so hard, it was a  bit stressful, but in the end it was all worth it.