For our performance, we wanted to challenge originality and pose the question that if books are stored in the library, read and quoted to form new academic writings, is anything new actually being created. The quotes included in academic writing have come from other source texts, and even the individual words used by writers are … Continue reading “Compendium – Final Blog Post”
Framing Statement “A place owes its character to the experiences it affords to those who spend time there” (Pearson, 2010). With a unique space like the library, we wanted to create a piece that immersed itself in the history of the building and its current use. Through trial and error we created a performance that used … Continue reading “Final Blog Submission: Lend A Hand (Natassja Dodd)”
Framing Statement The Bricks Have Stayed the Same performed in the Great Central Warehouse Library (GCW) on the 5th May 2016, is an exploration of the site’s history as a grain depot, a builders’ warehouse and a university library. The piece is designed to direct the participants’ attention towards the ‘spaces’ and ‘non-spaces’ of the … Continue reading “Final Blog Submission – The Bricks Have Stayed the Same – Sophie Tahssein”
Compendium Our performance is called Compendium, which means a concise compilation of a body of knowledge, a compendium summarises a much larger work. This is almost a perfect description of our intent with this piece as the aim of our piece is to create a compendium of knowledge by taking the words from a … Continue reading “Compenidum – Final Blog Post”
The Great Warehouse “Site-specific performance exists within a plethora of phenomena, all competing for attention, all potentially meaningful: A concatenation of that at site and that brought to the site.” (Pearson, 2010, p.1). The Great Central Library Warehouse (fig. 1): A site full of history, stimulating areas of exploration, and evidence of progression. In my … Continue reading “The Great Warehouse – Final Blog – Rebecca Jade Watson”