Today’s session began with us having a recap on what we did last week, for the benefit of the people that wasn’t there. We discussed our experiences with the instructions challenge, explaining our journeys to the class. Next, we moved on to watching a video of an experiment by John Smith. In the video, he’s recording the general public walking past in the street (E.G Women, Men and children), whilst telling the what to do. For instance, if a women walked from the left side with an umbrella in her hand, he would say “Now, I want the women with the umbrella in her hand to walk on from the left”. He persisted to do this with everyone that walk past in the sight of the camera.
Next, we watched a video on Marcia Farquhar giving a tour of the history, Phyco-Geogrpahy, biography and autobiography in London. She discussed her performance and how she is very much in the movement. She says that a performance she creates is never the same and she’s very much in the moment. We also looked into Mike Pearson article, as he discusses how Richard Sera thinks “to remove the work is to destroy the work”. Dr D. Headon followed Pearson’s work and she used scriptotherapy, where you write about experiences that have taken place in your own life (Mainly negative things). We also spoke about Mi Wong Quon, who wrote a book called One Place After Another, bringing things from visual art to performance.
Finally, we ended the session discussing everyone ideas for the performance and forming groups based on similar ideas. I joined a group, with the idea of creating a performance based on peoples emotional experiences in Lincoln. We sat in a group, brainstorming different ideas on how we could create a performance with our ideas. Hopefully by next week, we will have a solid idea on what we would like to do.
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