An installation designed by Ohi Pezoume and Transplanisphère, challenging the audience on themes of silence and sensory pollution.
Colors of Waiting explores the intersection of art and ecology through an immersive, contemplative installation. Rooted in silence, observation, and frugality, the installation invites participants to slow down, reflect, and engage with their surroundings. This methodology provides a framework for creating similar installations, emphasising ecological mindfulness, artistic expression, and audience engagement, adaptable to diverse spaces and contexts.
Authors: Marilou Gaillard has been a Young Ambassador, working for LeCake, first with ExQuorum in Portugal (October 2023 – April 2024), then joining Consol Theatre in Germany (May – December 2024). In this frame, she has been designing an installation called “Colours of Waiting”, a proposal to reflect on ecology through silence and contemplation.
Colours of Waiting is an installation that cuts the space to propose a different atmosphere within the first one. It is set in the middle of a corridor, and if you go through this corridor, you have no choice but to enter this universe.
From afar, you see carpets and pillows on the ground.
From afar, the spectator’s eye is attracted by a three-meter banner claiming some sentences.
When coming closer, pancards will tell you to take off your shoes (when crossing), to remain silent, as well as invite you to settle here, and take the cards that are lying on the floor. The audience can sit or lie down, read or look through the window, can take earplugs and listen to a bigger silence.
The cards and banners are full of words written by artists, describing either the effect colours have on human souls and emotions or how waiting can become an art and a lifestyle. On one side stand the sentences, while on the other one are images associated with them; cell imagery was used to symbolise life’s intricate vibrancy.
Everything becomes the content of those precious words ; silence, the choice to read or to look outside at the landscape, to sit or to lie, to stay one intense minute or half an hour. The audience is fulfilled by the environment. It is about taking a break and pay attention to what is around us or what is inside of us.
1. the methodology
Colour of Waiting is a simple and frugal installation ; it is about being there. Simple and reused material was part of the process, material that can be touched ; cards by the hands, pillows and carpets to sit on, pieces of clothes, borrowed from the Theater storage.
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Colors of Waiting first started by the reading of books; Kandinsky, Concerning the spiritual in art, and Sylvain Tesson , The Art of Patience.
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In Colours of Waiting, audience interaction is intentionally minimal, as the experience is rooted in silence and contemplation. A facilitator is present to offer subtle cues or guidance, adjusting their involvement based on how much direction the audience appears to need. Communication is primarily nonverbal, relying on gestures rather than words to preserve the immersive atmosphere.
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