ABSTRACT
In the spring of 2014, as the culminating event of the Confabulations Symposium held in honor of Marco Frascari, the author of this chapter in collaboration with Ted Landrum devised and staged a performance entitled Eudaimonia: A Pantomime Dream Play. The plot of this short play concerns the struggle for exemplary architectural transformation, shared wisdom, and “happiness”. This re-presentation rejoins the ephemeral narrative of mimetic gestures to more permanent and synthesizing media: poetic language and still images. Before setting forth the script (constructed retrospectively), it is helpful to expose foundational premises concerning architecture and pantomime. As Marco Frascari observed, an architect’s power of imagination is akin to that of a theatrical mime, because both agents palpably conjure absent yet latent realities through embodied acts of representation.
