May 2016 – Page 4 – The Library

Final Blog Submission: The Bricks Have Stayed The Same, Molly Richards Siddall

May 12, 2016 Molly Richards Siddall

FRAMING STATEMENT: What is Site-Specific Performance? According to Mike Pearson, site-specific performance is a “slippery” (2010, 7) art form that is personal to each artist that creates such work. It often involves creating work in spaces with some form of historical or political significance to a community or artist/s, with the work endeavouring to “engender … Continue reading “Final Blog Submission: The Bricks Have Stayed The Same, Molly Richards Siddall”

Final Blog Submission – The Bricks Have Stayed the Same (Rebecca Fallon)

May 12, 2016May 13, 2016 Rebecca Caley Fallon

Framing Statement: What is site specific performance? Site specific performance is hard to define as it is fluid and ever changing. One definition of it is how “layers of the site are revealed through reference to: historical documentations, site usage (past and present)” (Wilkie, 2002, 150). This informed our initial research processes and framed … Continue reading “Final Blog Submission – The Bricks Have Stayed the Same (Rebecca Fallon)”

The Great Warehouse

May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 Ashley Mark Walls

The university library “Once its stout brick walls echoed to the din of the railway goods yard, the clank of the crane and the hiss of the steam locomotive. Now the noises of a bygone industrial age have been replaced by a much more studios sound: the clicking of fingertips on computer keyboards, the riffling … Continue reading “The Great Warehouse”

Final blog submission (Heidi Green)

May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 Heidi Rebecca Green

Framing statement The aim of our site piece was to create a performance that stepped outside our comfort zone and feel the space that we intended to work in. In our selected site, the library, we chose to perform within a space that was, from my point of view, overlooked and taken for granted by … Continue reading “Final blog submission (Heidi Green)”