Pulling back the curtain : revealing the production of performance in the Hawaiian Islands

Harbors throughout the Hawaiian Islands serve as the dating a growing commercial cruise ship industry, foreign activity. They are also increasingly sites of controversy structures restrict local access and use of harbor areas man scale. This thesis proposes a platform for performance that ... floating and traveling between the four major Hawaiian Islands within multiple sites, accommodating public frames industrial harbor activity rather than staging no Hawaii's (neo)-colonial grand narrative as a sexualized as an instrument to reflect the relationship between pr den mechanics of calculated and market-oriented production and the outward appearance of contrived reality. Relationships between audience, stage, and performer shift to reveal the production of the performance, and reinsert the audience as a part of the theatrical experience. The architecture is a stage set for the performance that is not limited to a fixed stage but happens throughout the venue as localized spectacle.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Hsu, Stephanie (Stephine I.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Shun Kanda and J. Meejin Yoon.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43841

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/43841