Vladimiro! Abre la boca, Vladimiro! .................. AH!

A tool to twist reality.


Helllooooo everyone! And welcome to another entry in Monchips blog... you are not prepared....
what am i talking about? no one ever reads this blog.... AAARRRRRRROOOOZZZZ


A puppet is an object that, with your actions, you give life to it. It can be your shadow as it, an apple, or anything.

On thursday and friday we learnt more about puppets, with a workshop by Martin and Maria laura, who kindly explained everything to us.

On friday morning we started to make our own puppets... we all seemed really exited, and got on to do them, it turned out to be harder then what we thought, but i managed and started exploring with what my puppet could do, how could i maximize the use of my fingers... how i could turn my fingers into a tool to make this puppet of mine do things that i could not do. For example, move its eyes with 2 fingers.

I thought, at the beginning, puppets were for children. I knew there were cool puppets and things, but i had never seen a puppet take life like Ian Curtis did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVc29bYIvCM
I never imagined a puppet... that was not exactly representing reality, took life so amazingly. I was astonished.
The dances were awesome. The epileptic part could had been done better... and I did not understand when the naked girl shouted "INMORTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL"
ok... but the dance was AAAAMAAAZINNNG.
I wish my puppet could do that. But it can't. Mine is stupid. I will go cry now. No more blog.


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I'm done crying.

A puppet is a very variable and multi-use prop that can be used in various different ways. As a glove, "shared hand" or only torso and above, full body, with moving mouth, without a moving mouth, with moving arms, or w/o moving arms. It is completely free for you to make it as your wish... of course, as long as it is within reason and not something done for the sake of it.

Puppets can have different sizes, a puppet can be really small, or cover the complete stage. You can even have GIANTS. 3 arms? 4 legs? 5 eyes? 6 noses? no ears? 10 mouths? upside down head?
legs instead of arms
56 fingers
one bigger eye than the other
eyes in the chest
heart -shaped face
levitate
long to touch the audience
short to fit in your pocket
black to hide in the dark. to be your shadow
blue hair, green hair. spear hair, no hair,
the possibilites are endless.

So this is what a puppet is for. To help us show what an actor can't. A puppet is a tool.

A puppet can do what an actor cannot. If a puppet did equal to the actor then it would have no reason to be. And when a puppet doesn't have a reason to be. A puppet gets sad. And when puppets get sad... they lose their magic. And what is a puppet without magic?.... Just an object.
If an object with life is a puppet, and a puppet is an actor... Is the actor a puppet? If so... who controls the actor? The actor controls the puppet, and the puppet controls the actor. Who, behind puppets, controls the actor?

Can your turn this concept upside down on a stage?
Something to think about, and idea to develop.


"Dios mueve al jugador, y éste, la pieza.
¿Qué Dios detrás de Dios la trama empieza
de polvo y tiempo y sueño y agonías?"

Fragment of Jorge Luis Borges poem: Ajedrez

The actor moves the puppet, and this, the actor.
What is the actor then if not just a puppet?
To say that "we are not puppets because we have a mind of our own" is the easy way out.
think deeper about it. Get to the abstract. Get to the magic.
What does and actor transform to when he gets into character but a puppet? And what does a puppet turn when it turns into character but an actor? On a stage, there is no difference between these 2 but the possibilities one can achieve that the other can't.
Is the actor his own puppeteer?