The City, a fascinating and fast paced area where nothing really stays the same for more than a couple of seconds, (minus the buildings of course). Thousands of people walk through Lincoln high street every day. People, all with different reasoning to be there. People with different emotions. People with different story’s. These people will become the audience to our site specific performance. I do not know who these people will be, and neither do they, making this whole process very challenging. Creating a performance within the city , and not knowing how the people of the city will react, it’s going to be interesting.
Week 2 – Exploring Psycho Geography
Monday 1st February
After spending the week contemplating the idea of architecture and its history, the idea has developed to incorporate a specific site and the personal history people share with it. I am intrigued with the idea of how a particular place can mean different things to different people dependent on their personal history with that place.
The theory of situationism/psycho geography fits in with this idea quite well in that a person’s behaviour is dependent on their surroundings rather than personal behaviour traits. Psycho geography involves the idea that a person’s emotional state including their blood pressure and heart rate can be altered depending on their surrounding environment. Christian Nold is an example of a practitioner who used this idea, with his work involving measuring his heart rate whilst walking round an urban area.
This idea of peeling back layers, whether architectural or emotional, is something which I am definitely interested in exploring in the final Site Specific performance. The medium of a collage consisting of pictures, objects, audio etc. could map out people’s personal history of a place and making the spectator view said space in a way in which they haven’t before.
Joe Turner
Lincoln’s architecture
Pictures of Jack Wills and Fatface which were of particular interest when walking through the city
Joe Turner