Delivering art to people with 'Opera Truck'

Overview

Art is a repository of a society’s collective memory; it tends to preserve what historical facts cannot. It is a form of representation of culture and tradition in the most lucid form and acts as a visual language that speaks to all. It has become a chronicle that has created different identities for itself, namely, visual, performing, and written.

Art’s transition from utilitarian purposes and aesthetics into work of expression happened hundreds of years after its birth. Where is it now? Art is the fundamental form of representation yet it is unnoticed, at the comfort of our screens there is a visual barrier that deprives us of its actual flavour.

Entertainers, dancers, painters and street artists use open public spaces for their performances. They have enabled the option of an exclusive form of interaction for the audience by offering art as an experience and expression. They have challenged the antiquated form of displaying art only in theatres by their performance. Their reach is bound by a lack of infrastructural support on performance locations or the disengagement of spectators with art.

Can we as designers suggest an alternative to house such artists by giving them an open platform to explore their potential? Can this intervention help re-establish the disconnect of people with art?

If art is the pinnacle of expression,  then why is it understood by only a few?

Art was meant to be universal yet it seems art is not for everyone.

Brief

Art is timeless. However, the mediums to show art in the physical realm are quite outdated. Theatres helped in the past in a generation when television and the internet were yet to gain traction. In today’s world if people are not coming to view art (because of many factors), can’t art forms reach out to people? Can architecture and technology help us to reach our audiences in a way that appeals to today’s age?

The idea behind this design was to bring a theatre-like experience to the streets at a very tiny price as well as at the convenience of the artist/performer.

This problem took inspiration from street artists and equipped them with an instantly available theatre to showcase their art and talent on the streets of Madrid. The challenge here was to design a shared portable theatre box for a group of street artists.

The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows: 

Hyunho Lee, Partner, Chiasmus Partners, South Korea

Bruno Rossi, Architect, Bruno Rossi Architects, Brazil

 

Some of the Best of competition projects as follows:

 

Winning Project: OPERA TRUCK--Endless Possibilities

By: Yizhuo Chen, Chaochen Dong, Jingzhi, Tan & Yunlin Wang

Description: Our design incorporates modern technology to meet the needs of modern society to promote the arts. Through Internet interaction, we can connect the public to artists to a greater extent. At the same time create a pop up space corresponding to our concept-----eliminate the distance between art and the public.

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Runner - Up: The empty space

By: Lianping Xia

Description: "Empty space"means empty in the abstract sense,symbolizing that the theater provides a very pure background, which is given by street artists and venue environment.I apply the interface relationship and modular stage to the design and explore a suitable minimum unit and create a new viewing relationship.  to adapt to any space where the design may meet.

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     People’s Choice: Opera Truck. Theater of Mass.

         By: Анастасия Смирнова

Description: The 21st century is becoming the century of the Internet, globalization, new technologies and innovations. The processes of rapid globalization lead to the interaction and synthesis of cultures, the emergence of a single global culture. Today, in all areas of art is a search for new meanings and forms. New phenomena and forms of tetra are born.

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     Editorial Choice: Art Oasis

     By: Alejandro Fleitas Valido

Description: The project pretends to provide a comfortable environment for people to enjoy art. An oasis in the middle of the city where artist and visitors can meet surrounded by trees and clean air, with shadow provided by the plants, away from the noise, pollution, heat, and stress of their everyday lives.

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Editorial Choice: Golden Box

By: Reza Soleimani & Fateme Bouini

Description: This box has a glorious world inside Like artists who have unique and spectacular art within them And it is brilliant because the brilliant art is going to be displayed inside it So let see what is in the Golden box.

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Editorial Choice: Operatruck

By: 渊 苑 

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Editorial Choice: Instant City

By: Shao Xueyan

Description: In the premise of Instant city first proposed by Archigram, we designed a series of mobility architecture that only exists as an incident in time and in space. It becomes an information network, education, entertainment and facilities for a community in lieu of fixed cultural center.

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