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scenario (2009)
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scenario (2009). Site specific installation, Abandoned Gallery, Malmö.
“[…] the Storyteller takes what he tells from experience –his own or that reported by others. And he in turn makes it the experience of those who are listening to his tale.”
-The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin.
In the work scenario Karolina Erlingsson deals with questions concerning mirror-images and the relationship between listener and narrator, two roles in symbiosis that can be both assigned to us and that we can assume for ourselves, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. In the site-specific installation consisting of mirrors the listener is placed on stage, or is it perhaps the narrator? Erlingsson makes the gallery-space visually inaccessible, the white cube becomes a sensation. The concealed spaces are clarified. The stairway, like an anteroom to the gallery space, is reflected and the viewer becomes a part of the piece – a scenario occurs. A reflecting room can be a symbol of longing, perhaps for another room behind the first, with other premises, other existences. A reflection can also be understood as an image of the absolute and fleeting present. Erlingsson wants to put focus on the stories in the periphery, how the small details impel the story forward. A story can be an inner dialogue, to imagine oneself in different scenarios, encounters with ones many selves. Sometimes one can attempt to reach something within oneself – can it be found in the role of the narrator or the listener? The room behind the first, which can be compared to the unconscious, speaks back like an echo. The reflection also occurs via audio as part of the installation. The reflected stairway with entrances and exits becomes a stage where people come and go, each with their own unique history, interpretation and role. One purpose with scenario is to free the story and to bring attention to the small details within oneself and the surroundings – either we can choose to stay with the reflection and its interpretation, or we can continue towards a new act.
-Anna Norberg
*Scenario, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A scenario (from Italian, that which is pinned to the scenery) is a synthetic description of an event or series of actions and events. In the Commedia dell'arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play that was literally pinned to the back of the scenery. It is also known as canovaccio or "that which is pinned to the canvas" of which the scenery was constructed. Surviving scenarios from the Renaissance contain little other than character names, brief descriptions of action, and references to specific lazzi with no further explanation. It is believed that a scenario forms the basis of a fully improvisational performance though it is also likely that they were simple reminders of the plot for those members of the cast who were literate. Modern commedia troupes most often make use of a script with varying degrees of additional improvisation (see improvisational theatre). In the creation of an opera or ballet, a scenario is often developed initially to indicate how the original source, if any, is to be adapted and to summarize the aspects of character, staging, plot, etc. that can be expanded later in a fully developed libretto, or script. This sketch can be helpful in "pitching" the idea to a prospective producer, director or composer. A scenario is also an account or synopsis of a projected course of action, events or situations. Scenario development is used in policy planning, organisational development and generally, when organisations wish to test strategies against uncertain future developments. Scenarios are widely used by organisations of all types to understand different ways that future events might unfold. Scenario planning or scenario analysis is a complex business process related to futures studies. Scenarios should not be used to forecast what happened in past. According to the Forecasting Dictionary, a scenario is “a story about what happened in the future”. Vivid scenarios distort people's perceptions of the likelihood of the events they describe. Scenarios can therefore be used to overcome resistance to unpopular forecasts.
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