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| 68 Shadows transmute. From protagonists they change into
PLATO'S CAVE
N i k o s I a v a z z o
viewers. The cinema meets Plato’s Myth of the Cave, in an
interactive installation by Nikos Iavazzo.
This work is an installation made up of two rooms, which are
separated by a cloth. In one of the rooms there is a light projector
that sends its light towards the cloth, which lies directly opposite.
In the other room, there is a wooden platform that faces
towards the cloth. The public plays a fundamental role in this
installation. There are various objects in the room with the projector;
the public has access to these objects and is able to use
them in the aim of creating a role that will be projected upon
the cloth, in the form of a shadow. The members of the public on
the other side of the installation, being viewers / observers, follow
the two-dimensional protagonists in the other room as they
move upon the cloth. In this way, the one minute someone can
be directing and starring in various roles, hidden behind his or
her shadow, and the next be seated on the platform as a viewer,
observing someone else’s efforts to direct.
Through this work, reference is made to two realities: The twodimensional
reality of the shadows projected in real time upon
the cloth; and, the tangible reality of the active participation of
the public in a role-playing game.