Over the past few weeks, we have done lost of experimenting and decided as a group to incorporate some of these ideas in to our piece.
EXPERIMENTAL DRAMA:
Some of the ideas that can be seen here a discussed further in our previous blogs.
EXPOSURE: Our intention was to look in to the way in which we can focus on exposing a space, a secret or some kind of revelation through our piece.
How we incorperated this in to our work: The way in which the piece works, allows us to expose ‘something’ (which you will see if you come to our performance!). As a group, we feel that we have managed to build suspense in our piece and end it in a climatical way
OBSCURITY: As a group, we explored different ways in which to incorporate obscurity in to our performance.
How we incorporated this in to our work: The performance itself is obscure. Out intentions from our performance are not explicitly obvious.
LIFE AS ART: From the offset, our key interest was looking in to what it means to have life be art.
How we incorporated this in to our work: In our performance, we feel like we explore the idea of the fine line between art and drama.
Although at times we felt like each lesson we had different ideas and we were getting nowhere, we finally feel as a group, all of our experimentation throughout the term has finally paid off.
One of the reasons behind our chosen style of performance can be summed up in this quote:
‘ Site-specificity, then, can be understood in terms of this process, while a site-specific work; might articulate and define itself through properties, qualities or meanings produced in specific relationships between an object or event and a position it occupies.’ (Site-Specific Art, Nick Kaye)
As a group, we have focussed on our performance taking place in a museum, specifically the contemporary art gallery. Through this we were able to develop our ideas and knew that our performance needed an artistic twist in order to make it differ from other performances.