Date: Tuesday 29th January
‘There doesn’t need to be a distinction between life and art! Life can BE art’ -Alan Caproe.
This is a quote that we have decided to follow as a group. As drama students, a lot of what we do depends on script work and devising a piece. When looking in to other practitioners that used site as their stimulus, a general characteristic of their work is that it doesn’t necessarily make sense, and is often open to interpretation. We really want to focus on life as art, mainly hammering in on obscurity.
Forgotten. Sights.
Every time we walk past some thing of beauty, out appreciation of said subject deteriorates. Walking past a thing of beauty frequently can cause unappreciative attitudes. All we have to do is stop and look. Take time out of our busy days and just look. Take in the surroundings, rather than letting them pass you by.
What we learned from this was that space does not necessarily have to be interesting or obscure for people to appreciate it.
It was from this that we began to question what is needed to make some one stop and notice what is going on around them and really take in their surroundings.
This lead further in to the idea of obscurity and the way in which peoples’ perception of places change.
An underlying idea for this week was the idea of making some thing happen in a space which would usually be passed by in the collection by the general public and those that work there, and make something happen in order to draw attention to, and expose the space.
After exploring the collection, we came across a piece that contains a video of everyday things happening, but sped up. This is something that Caproe was trying to portray – ordinariness exemplified as an art form.
Until next time! xx
Ellie Henshaw
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