Last week we were asked to go to the grandstand and create a performance in the second half of our lecture. However, Rachel, Emma, Kash, Charlie and I decided to go and explore the west common and to try and get a feel for what an actual horse looked like, felt like and smelled like. Mike Pearson states that ‘Performance can function as innotive mode of enquiry and as a research output,’ (Mike Pearson, 2011) and we asked ourselves how our performance could be considered a research output if we hadnt actually done any reasearch ourselves! With that in mind we trekked out to the area of the common where the horses all were gathered, we just didnt consider the terrain before we did! It had obviously been raining at some point in the past as the ground was soaked through and the noise our feet made as we walked through was horrible, kind of squelchy! However the thing that struck me the most was the smell of the who place. It was a mild day and you could almost smell spring bursting through the clouds. The sun was trying to break through – which made our journey slightly more enjoyable that in previous weeks when we were all cold through!- maybe making some of us more daring than others, and eventually we reached our destination after passing a large number of manure piles on the way that didnt smell too nice! I think by the end of the day Charlie had gone off the idea of bringing Horse manure into the grandstand as the amount we saw was enough to put anyone off!!
Works Cited:- Mike Pearson 2011, Why Performance?