The creative space

Seminar/workshop Iceland Academy of the Arts (IAA)

The theatre machine uses humans to perform some activity in the creative space.

The creative space has rules that require humans to perform or assist in performing any type of acts in a chain of events in order to explore the given question or challenge.

A theatre device is any device in the creative space that uses humans to perform some activity or can be used by humans to perform some activity.

There is no author in the creative space. There is a common challenge/subject that is addressed in the creative space.

Give each run or execution in the creative space a title. 

The purpose of the creative space is not to generate dialogue. The creative space is just a tool that can only define how we speak about the challenge/subject. 

It is very important to view the execution or exploration in the creative space  as  an instrument of creation and discovery; the aim is not to make an improvised performance/happening. 

In the creative space text is a theatre device as is a set, a chair, a table, gun or a game.

If the creative space is complex, it will need someone to run maintenance.

Make, break and misunderstand the rules but always above all obey the three laws of the theatre machine.

The storeroom

Workshop "You are here" Mindgroup

The storeroom is both a physical space and a psychological space. It is the realm of the 4 knowns  nd physical objects. It is anything you bring into the creative space or intellectual space. It can be a lecture on line-dancing or Christian clowning, a photo, a song etc. or any theatre device  that you bring to be used in the creative space. 

The storeroom is personal and mutual. It is what you decide to give the humans as material.  Gifts should be received with gratitude. It is important to remember that any personal experience that is manifested in the creative space or the intellectual space becomes material in the storeroom.  All material and devices in the storeroom are open-source.

Titles and rules

Workshop/seminar Icelandic Academy of the Arts (IAA)

A theatre machine should have a title and each exploration or execution in the creative space should have a title. 
The title is a tool to embody the challenge or question that is to be explored or executed. 

Every title has within it a promise of a set of explicit and implicit “truths” or knowns. These can then help to “charge” or “load” the creative space and its devices and imply a certain type of acts in a chain of events in order to explore the given question or challenge.

The creative space should also have a set of written explicit rules that should always comply with the three laws.  The written rules are what drive the execution or exploration in the creative space.

All theatre devices also have a set of explicit and implicit “truths” or knowns. They also have a set of written or unwritten rules.


Theatre devices also may have within them a certain “charge” or a promise/possibility of a chain of events.  A gun or a chocolate cake is an example of such a “charged” theatre device.