DIS-SCENT: A NYC STORY
A LAT Digital Space production for the series NYC STORIES: Not Your Classic Stories based on my Dissenting Scent story.
A LAT Digital Space production for the series NYC STORIES: Not Your Classic Stories based on my Dissenting Scent story.
ABOUT THE FORMAT
Although this series was originally proposed as a collection of Short-One-Act Virtual Theater Plays for LAT Digital Space, I thought I better follow the ideas wherever they want to take me. Perhaps they will end-up as short videos, cross-disciplinary collection of works or - as they were originally intended - short virtual theater productions.
OTHER NYC STORIES CURRENTLY ON THE PROJECT DEVISING BOARD
PROJECT DEVISING NOTES
August 18th, 2023
Since I no longer live in NYC, in order to convey the city’s inspiring energy, I first must explore the particular “energy” for each proposed story and to do so, I probably will end-up creating a series of sub-projects “triggered” by the original musing energy.
CALL FOR COLLABORATION
At the moment I’m looking for actors to collaborate virtually in this project. You can either participate as an actor in a existent story or bring your own story (for stories requirements please contact me directly). If you are not an actor but would like to collaborate with the project, please contact me.
There is no charge or pay to participate in this project. If there was money to be made from livestream performances’ tickets sales or on-demand charges, the profits will be distribute equally among the cast of each show. For more information about the business side of this proposal, please contact me.
ONLINE EXHIBIT OF PRIVATE PHOTOGRAPHY
For the launching of The Absolute Creative Space and LAT Digital Space member sites, I’m working on a private installation and a live-showing of photographs from my private collections - mostly self-portraits - never been shown before.
Self-Portrait. “Spazi” Installation at Debauchers: Art Arouse by Sexuality exhibit. Aria Studios et Galerie - Montréal 2010
All Rights Reserved © Guido Luciani Photography
For the launching of The Absolute Creative Space and LAT Digital Space member sites, I’m working on a private installation and a live-showing of photographs from my private collections - mostly self-portraits - never been shown before. More information to come.
BRAINSTORMING NOTES
August 19th , 2023
During Becoming a Rose - a virtual play I devised for The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021 - I created a scene called my “Secret Sacred Private Photo Sessions” in which I talked about these photo sessions I often did/do just to recharge myself and - as I mentioned in the play - to remind myself I still am a sexually relevant individual. Showing the process and some of the photos taken during these shoots was essential to the play - an honest and undiluted artist’s exposé - and after the play, it became clear to me that I could not run for cover that - using the symbolism from the play - once a rose I could not close back into a bloom.
The Secret Sacred Private Photo Sessions mentioned in the play became what I now call “Creative Energy Workouts” and the work created during the current and upcoming sessions will be available for viewing in The Lightbox and The Bare Canvas of this site but, how about photos and videos from way back when I started doing these private photo sessions? There are very many old photographs I would like to share with those of you who are interested so I thought that a live virtual installation and performance would be the best way to do this.
SENSETORMING NOTES
September 15th, 2023
The photograph above was taken in my Montréal studio during a collective exhibit and installation called “Debauch” Art Aroused by Sexuality”. This was a live-work studio so I literally slept inside this installation for a couple of weeks. One night, after the other exhibiting artists had gone, I set up my camera and tried to take in the energy of the place. The next day, besides several photographs, I had completed the paper installation you can see in the above photo.
I remember the feeling of being alone in that large studio surrounded not only by my work but that of other artists. I recall being very cold - the winter was setting in and the heating system was not sufficient for the space - and at the same time overwhelmed by many mixed emotions. Letting myself be “aroused by art” seemed the only way not only to transcend and transmute the overpowering energy into creative energy but also, to stop shivering from the cold.
Just like showing some of the photos I took that night “out of context” would be unfair to the value of the work, I believe that showing most of my photos from past sessions “outside” the “sacred”, “private” space where they were created would take the intimacy and honesty shown in those photos from them.
IT TAKES COURAGE
“To create one’s own world takes courage.” - Georgia O’Keeffe
“To create one’s own world takes courage.”
MUSING ENERGIES SPROUTING FROM THIS ROOT ENERGY
False Profile
IT TAKES COURAGE
We - a photographer friend and I - had tried everything to get this client - a referral from a dating site - to stop posing like he was auditioning for a mobster movie, until I had to say … you might want to be more approachable, show who you are … to what he responded: “if being myself had taken me anywhere I wouldn’t need a dating site, would I? - GL
We - a photographer friend and I - had tried everything to get this client - a referral from a dating site - to stop posing like he was auditioning for a mobster movie, until I had to say … you might want to be more approachable, show who you are … to what he responded: “if being myself had taken me anywhere I wouldn’t need a dating site, would I? - GL
THE PROPOSAL
Creating a short Personal or/and Casting Story video or a short Virtual Theater scene
PROJECT DEVISING NOTES
August 18, 2023
I thought I play with this story in relation to why many actors feel that acting give them the chance to be “somebody else”.
about the silver wolf journal
After my sun-energy recharging session this morning, it became clear to me that I’ve been running on empty for the past several days … that the “muse” I seem to be missing is not a person but my ultimate musing energy to which I’ve been recognizing lately as The Silver Wolf.
After my sun-energy recharging session this morning, it became clear to me that I’ve been running on empty for the past several days … that the “muse” I seem to be missing is not a person but my ultimate musing energy to which I’ve been recognizing lately as The Silver Wolf.
I have decided to start writing The Silver Wolf Journal on my private blog - Absolute Sensetream - to collect the un-restricted, un-censured and free of judgement thoughts and impulses of this my unleashed musing force.
I also figured out that before I attempt to “clothe” the wolf - as I’m proposing on “The Silver Wolf in Clothes” (currently on the Devising Boards), I first need to let the wolf out. Unless this musing energy is all out and glowing, I wouldn’t be able to “transcend” the clothes and they will just become a barrier, a hide for the wolf.
The Absolute Sensetream blog is part of The Absolute Creative Space - my private virtual laboratory. If you are interesting in gaining access to this free member’s area of my website, please contact me.
THE ARTIST, THE MUSE AND THE ABSOLUTE SPACE
Exploring the connection of the artist with the creative space, his relationship with the muse or musing energy and their coexistence in the Absolute Space.
Ever since the idea for Sensetorm first came to me, I’ve been exploring my connection to the creative space, my relationship with “the muse” or “musing energy” and our coexistence in the Absolute Space.
MUSING ENERGIES SPROUTING FROM THIS ROOT ENERGY