Well done all, some good conversations in this week’s sessions.

So, some words for you to explore: phenomenology and ethnography. How might these approaches be useful to your research?

In class we discussed ‘action’ and how it can be interpreted differently depending on circumstance, relation, situation, comparison, repetition etc. Task: Develop an action in and at your site. Be prepared to present this in our session next week, and discuss the context in connection with your practical and theoretical research.

Don’t forget you also need to record a ‘wild’ track at your site, a voice piece and a sound effect for editing in our next Audacity session.

We hope that you are feeling confident about your sound recordings and the possibilities that are available to you using the Audacity editing software. Consider how you can create mood and tone in your recorded pieces using the amplify tool. Also, discuss how you will use the editing tools, such as noise removal, time shift, envelope and equalise to enhance your work. How could you use the above to make a background track for your performance?

Consider ‘linear’ and ‘cyclical’ in your performance. How important is the organisation of time in your work? Consider the essence and organisation of time in your work in relation to Pearson’s organisation principles.

Consider space as an organisation principle. How can you organise space in your performance? Why is this organisation important?

Don’t forget you can refer to ideas of performance in terms of ‘liveness, digital space, immediacy, presence, absence, corporeal, Real’. We discussed these in terms of performance this week and we began to connect them to your own work. Try and articulate your connections here.

Read The Imaginary Walker pp. 61-76

Coverley, M. The Art of Wandering: the writer as walker. Harpenden:Oldcastle Books.

Chapter can be found in my folder on BB – under key texts tab.

As well as responding to my questions in the previous post, please read Govan’s Revisioning Place, and Pearson’s Place Exercises. Both of these are on the BB site. Please comment here on the blog.