Muse Object Performance

Overview

This piece is an interactive performance examining how audiences respond to different forms of object performance. The audience will experience the same short piece four times, each performed through a different medium placed along a spectrum.

First, a single object (such as a blanket) will be animated as an expressive marionette. Next, the piece will be performed with a simple hand puppet, then with an animatronic character, and finally with a small robot. If time allows, additional mediums may also be explored.

The goal of this work is to investigate how meaning and emotional response shift as the object changes, and to provoke curiosity about the boundaries between object, character, and performer.

Repository Structure

Muse-Object-Performance/
├── README.md                    # Project documentation
├── .gitignore                   # Git ignore rules for build artifacts
├── LatexTemplates/              # Git submodule for LaTeX formatting
│   └── playscript.cls          # Playscript class file
└── plays/                       # Play scripts and compiled PDFs
    ├── objectify.tex           # Play script source (R.U.R. excerpt)
    └── objectify.pdf           # Compiled playscript PDF

Files

• plays/objectify.tex - LaTeX source file for the play script, featuring selected scenes from Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), translated by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair
• plays/objectify.pdf - Professionally formatted PDF of the play script
• LatexTemplates/ - Git submodule containing the playscript formatting class

Contact

Hersch Nathan - hersch.nathan@uky.edu