Over the course of the week, myself, Holly, Emma and Lucy began discussing ideas for the final performance and found that we all shared an interest in the history of both the buildings of Lincoln and people’s personal histories. The four of us also love the idea of one place meaning different things to different people and the idea that participants/observers of our work would view our site differently after experiencing it. We have therefore decided to work together for the final project because we feel as though mutual interests are an important element for site specific performance to be successful.
Once the seminar was underway we looked into the introduction of Mike Pearson’s Site Specific Performance and all of the practitioners/theorists that are relevant including Michael Fried, Dee Headon and Cathy Turner. Out of these three practitioners Cathy Turner was the one that caught my interest, particularly the idea of Palimpsest (the layering of information to change people’s perspective). When we broke off into groups to discuss the performance further, the four of us quickly collaborated to create an idea that relates to most of the things discussed in previous posts including layering (palimpsest), emotional memory, collages, actively appealing to more than one sense and engaging with ‘history’.
I will be posting a blog entry shortly proposing an initial idea for the final Site performance.
