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Veatriki More
contact information
Curriculum Vitae _education National Technical University of Athens_Architecture Engineer Faculty
Full Name: Veatriki More Date of Birth: 4th July 1989 Nationality: Greek Address: Krossener Str. 21, 10245 Berlin, Germany Phone number: +0049 1512 9617825 +0030 697 6750901 E-mail: more.beatrik@gmail.com
Politecnico di Torino_ Facoltà di Architettura_Erasmus Exchange student [Sociologia Urbana (28/30), research project “Drifting as a means of reading and re-defining urban space”]
Secondary Education Diploma _ 4th High School, Chania, Crete
_working experience -Currently working at Greffin.Architekt, Berlin -Toneelgroep Amsterdam _ Stage Design Internship (Aug-Dec 2016) [design, modelling, props making&finding] |design of the Barbican Box 2017 |involved in the following productions: “The Things That Pass” by Louis Couperus (participation in the Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts) |director: Ivo van Hove, scenographer: Jan Versweyveld, assistant scenographer: Bart Van Merode, Ramón Huijbrechts “The Maids” by Jean Genet |director: Katie Mitchell, scenographer: Chloe Lamford, assistant scenographer: Ramón Huijbrechts | Veatriki More
_contests & events Participation at the 5th international festival P_public at Chania, Crete, Greece
June 2014
|presentation of the lecture “Drifting as a means of reading and re-defining the urban space” |event co-ordination: a mythogeographical approach of the historical layers of Chania city
Finalist Award at “Architecture, Landscape and Wine” |International Student Competition launched by arquideas in co-operation with ELcroquis
April 2012
_languages Greek English
mother tongue Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Cambridge Certificate of Competency in English, University of Michigan
French Italian German
DELF level B2, Ministere de l’ Education de France elementary knowledge (beginner’s level) elementary knowledge (A2)
_software skills Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign CC, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk Autocad 2016, Rhino, Microsoft Office
_parallel activities Attendance of Creative Writing Seminars at “Romantso” Cultural Centre, Athens
June-July 2015
Participation in the Theatrical Group of National Technical University of Athens
2009-2014
|participation at the Theatre Festival of Astritsi, Heraklion, Crete, summer 2010&2011 |participation at the Student Theatrical Groups Festival of Mytilini island, Greece, spring 2011 |scenographical co-ordination for the plays: “My nationality; the colour of the wind” by Matei Vişniec [2011] “8 femmes” by Robert Thomas [2014]
Radio Producing for local radio station of Chania “Diktyo FM | 91.5”
_other interests theatre, cinema, scenography, performing spaces, music, travelling, writing, crafts, museums, philosophy, poetry
2005-2007
I am deeply intrigued by the relationship between space and human interaction. Spaces that allow dramaturgies of urban sociability. People that produce space through their activity. Performing and relational spaces. I am passionately looking for the commonalities and the differences between the stable nature of architecture and the fragile, ephemeral character of scenography.
Contents
scenography project
industrial design
props making
model making
RZ
R oberto Z ucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès
_scenography project _February 2012, NTUA _collaborator| Konidi Amalia-Maria
the play
Roberto Zucco is a play based on the life of the Italian serial killer Roberto Succo (1962-88). Although RZ is the main character of the homonym play, the plot follows a series of events that happen alongside in his life and the life of a teenage girl, raped and abandoned by him. On the one hand, there is a sequence of unreasonable murders and interesting encounters, revealing RZ’s social invisibility, as well as the state of his lonely psychopathic mind. On the other hand, the teenage girl, in love with her rapist, goes through the experience of a quite cruel, metaphorical, coming of age and ends up delivering his name to the police in a desperate struggle to find him. Her action, ironically being an accidental abuse of power on her quaintly beloved one, leads to his arrest which is ultimately followed by RZ’s suicide; quite a dramatic one: he falls off the roof, simulating the death of his father. From a certain point of view, the story is about a subversive character who clashes with all social contracts. The absurdity of his destructive actions and any kind of social reaction to them, aim to bring up questions about the human behaviour and society’s general lack of interest.
concept Considering the strength of the situations taking place, priority is given to WHAT happens rather than WHERE it happens. The main goal of this scenographic approach is to carry forward the theatrical action in order to retain the audience’s focus on the facts irrespective of the locus. The feelings that remain from this narrative are dissatisfaction, surprise and wonder. Thus, the basic concept of this project is to place the plot in a surrealistic, dystopian environment, equivalent to the absurd existence and decaying lifestyle of RZ.
The realization of this idea is carried out by a system of suspended rocks, hanged in successively superimposed layers. The stretched ropes that hold the rocks operate as vertical axes in the stage space. Placed sparsely and densely in places, they create various spatial entities on stage that serve the need of different spatial relationships in each scene of the play.
[For example, in the scene where RZ hides under a table to avoid the parents of the teenage girl, we keep the fact that he is out of the parents’ field of vision, thus in a different spatial entity. There is no need of a table. All we need is a legible organisation of space.]
For safety reasons, a wire is incorporated inside every rope, connected to a mechanism with a grommet in order to control the stones while descending. This “controlled throwing� is supposed to take place in every change of scene. Everytime a scene ends, the lights go out, the audience listens to the mechanism rolling over, then the lights go on and new rocks have appeared suspending over the stage, approaching more and more the people watching the play. The stage is almost empty at first, but while the crimes are pilling up, more and more rocks fill the theatrical space; they get closer and closer to the audience as the life of RZ is reaching its end.
the stage The stage where the play is supposed to take place is the Greek Art Theatre Karolos Koun. It was considered the most appropriate to host this specific play mainly because of its structure which underlines the desired effect of verticality. Another factor that contributed to this choice is the small size of the stage, considering the fact that most scenes are held by few actors at a time. A larger space could cause “spreading out” of the theatrical action.
In order to complete the dystopia effect, the floor and the wall in the background of the stage are supposed to be covered in a black, rough material, a “dirt” reference .
“Roberto Zucco. I’ll never forget this name. Hide under the table; someone’s coming.”
Barbican Box 2017 Box and Learning Resource Design
_Industrial Design|
_Toneelgroep Amsterdam
_portable box for educational purposes related to theatre making
_concept / in collaboration with| Ramรณn Huijbrechts
_Barbican Box is a creative education program for schools and colleges, ran in a range of art forms: theatre, music and visual arts. Each year, Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning commission a world class Theatre Company to design and curate the Barbican Box, providing an artistic starting point from which teachers and students devise their own piece of theatre. The artistic partner for Barbican Box 2017 is Toneelgroep Amsterdam. The Box is composed by 4 smaller boxes and a cap. It can be assembled 2 ways: 1 - one box on top of the other [pile it up!] 2 - puzzle - like [piece together the bottom sides to see the plan of the stage!]
_The design of the Box’s assembiling parts follows a simple principal : The capability to be produced fast and easy through Laser or/and CNC cutting.
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© Hanne Nijhuis
Mud Drawings
on Glass Panels
for the stage set of “The things that pass” _ production by Toneelgroep Amsterdam ( “De DIngen Die Voorbijgaan” - participation in the Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts, Gladbeck) _props making _September 2016 _scenographer, light design| Jan Versweyveld assistant scenographer| Bart Van Merode, Ramón Huijbrechts
_piano model based on a Yamaha C6, scale 1:20
_model making for stage design purposes _autumn 2016 _TGA internship
& design of the big Washing Machine for the play “My nationality, the colour of the wind� staged by the Theatrical Group of Technical University of Athens in the Averof Atrium of the Architectural Faculty, NTUA spring 2011
Thank you.