Week Four: Visual Research

Hedwig and The Angry Inch

Group Midterm:

Aidan Nelson, Alexandra Lopez, Nathier Fernandez & Sam Hains

One Simple Sentence Hedwig and the Angry Inch is about a painful quest for wholeness.

One Complex Sentence Hedwig and The Angry Inch is about repairing the sense of self that fractures in the face of trauma.

Three -Five Sentence versions of the story Hedwig and the Angry Inch is about a gender-queer rock musician retelling the story of her life on stage. She relives the pain of trying to find completeness through the conditional love of others: an emotionally absent mother, a botched sex-change operation, and the betrayal of her musician protégé. We are left with a vision of an individual overcoming of the painful divisions in herself to become whole.

Images Research:

Hedwig’s stage

Failed musical [Norse mythology]

On stage setup/exit door [While Hedwig is making her show]​

Final Images Collage:

This collage represents our current visual thinking about our world.

Failed Musical:

We are considering a failed ‘Norse Mythological’ musical such as: 'Vikings Revenge’, 'Beowulf', 'Viking: Blood Laws Call for Revenge' or 'Vikings Quest'.