Category: The Odds Are Stacked

 

The excitement that erupted when the class discovered that this could potentially be our performance space was rather encouraging as we seemed to all share a collective interest in this building and its history.

Always something i have seen on my travels into Lincoln, from the exterior i never knew that it even had rooms inside let alone over grown gardens. Empty spectating seats with hollow sparse insides. It felt like going into an over sized rabbit hole or the body of something. i felt like learning about this building was like learning about a body part of Lincoln. It made me think of all of the diverse memories that have been made in this place and whether those people were still around in Lincoln to tell them.

To be continued. Watch this space. ( Potentially)

As group we were sent drifting to do task number 3 “Sensitization” from an extract of ” The handbook of drifting”. We adopted the roles as detectives, as if we were the last humans alive and to find meaning in everything.  With a similar belief to Emma Govan et al when discussing The place of the artist that “There is a recognition that a space is not empty but full of meaning.” ((Emma Govan et al,2007,Making a performance ” Devising histories and Contempary practices”,New York: Routledge)) So when we came across this broken Vodka bottle we applied our own interpretations to what we think it would mean and what its purpose of being on that particular place of the floor. Who had dropped it there? Was it thrown in anger, sadness, or inebriation ?   The meaning we decided to give this bottle was more like poetic symbolization than literal; The Likely hood that the student ended up as smashed as this bottle is most probable. Or that was the aim they had when buying the drink. Then again it is only Smirnoff Ice and that doesn’t do much but its a start.  From observation the head/neck of the bottle is the most damaged part which is generally the most effected part of the body when consumed.  It messes with your head, interrupts any logical thought process and can break your view on reality. The location of the bottle we felt could of reflected the consumer themselves as well; lying down, somewhere on campus/halls/accommodation feeling and looking like rubbish… Que the play on words. The headache in morning the is the only evidence of the night before.  Really does put into perspective the whole you are what you eat. In this case drink.