Torry mentioned the installation/environmental artist Christo (and his partner Jean-Claude) in her design presentation today. Here are a couple of video clips to give you a sense of the scale and approach of this “wrapping” work.
The first is a time-lapse or “quick motion” video of their wrapping of The Reichstag in Berlin (1995).
The second is an interview by LX TV with Christo and Jean-Claude about their “The Gates” project in Central Park (NYC), 2005.
Just for another view, the installation artist Francis Hines also works with “wrapping” in his work.
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Wow- the wrapping of the Reichstag left me with an eerie feeling. The obscuring of the architectural lines of the building makes it seem like a monolith, hiding many ‘unknowns’ beneath. I like the way Christo describes the visual arts as training or educating the eye to appreciate the “physicality of the space.” I imagine that wrapping the set and Nora in the beginning of the play will immediately strike the audience with a knowledge of the strangeness of Torvald and Nora’s lives in relation to one another, as well as the world they live in as a whole.
Nora is rarely left alone in a room. Instead she is continually displayed and in the ‘possession’ of everyone around her; I think even Mrs. Linde to a certain extent exerts control over her through her presence because it necessitated conversation and lightheartedness.