Pervasive Media is basically any experience that uses sensors and/or mobile/wireless networks to bring you content (film, music, images, a game…) that’s sensitive to your situation – which could be where you are, how you feel, or who you are with. ( pervasive media studio, 2015). This type of new media links perfectly with the work that is already being showcased at Frequency festival which is why it is a perfect brief for the module. 

It will be interesting to see how we can combine this with the site we have been given to create a performance that is not only site specific but also fits with frequency 2015’s theme of liberation

Pervasive media studio (2015) what is pervasive media?. [online] pervasive media studio. avalible from: http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/pmstudio/what-pervasive-media [accessed on 29th january 2015]

“The conventions and techniques of the auditorium may be inappropriate or inadequate for ‘site’.” (Pearson, 2010, p.1)
From reading the introduction to site-specific performance by Mike Pearson I understand that the term is hard to completely define, however it is mainly seen as a performance that is only relevant to a specific ‘site’ or ‘place’. If this performance was to be performed in any other site or place it would become irrelevant and make no sense. It is also about removing performance from the standard auditorium to surrounding areas outside and further a field.
“Although the stage is a site of imagination and site always inescapably itself, site may be transformed by the disruptive presence of performance seeking a relationship other than that of a ready-made scenic backdrop against which to place its figures.” (Pearson, 2010, p.2) After learning the site we have been assigned, I am very excited to start developing a performance based on either the waterfront or the high street involving liberation!

Pearson, M.(2010) Site Specific Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

During our first lesson of Site Specific Performance we were allocated the location of the water front and high-street, I look forward to facing the challenges an outside performance will include, as Pearson suggests ‘At site, the prospect is complex unless otherwise framed’ (Pearson, 2010, p.17). but so excited at trying something new and different.

Our brief, which includes a very exciting opportunity to showcase our work at frequency festival 2015 – an arts celebration that’s based right here in the City of Lincoln over a period of a week where over 36,000 audience members participated in the past festivals; Is all about liberation. This combined with the digital aspects that frequency want to include is very exciting and totally new to what has been asked of me as a drama student in the past.  I look forward to progressing and learning more about site specific performance, digital culture and Liberation and hope by the end of the module I have a product worthy to showcase at the festival!

Pearson, M. (2010) Site Specific Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Elizabeth Hellend.

The differences between a performance on site and within an auditorium are constantly discussed throughout Pearson’s introduction. This exceptional detail allowed me to grasp a solid hold of the key dissimilarities between these types of theatre. A key instance of this is Pearson’s list comparing the aspects of a performance of site and that within an auditorium. For example, Pearson states that ‘In the auditorium the scene is singular’ (Pearson, 2010, p.17) whereas ‘At site, the prospect is complex unless otherwise framed’ (Pearson, 2010, p.17).

In relation to the brief given to us regarding our topic of performance, I feel that the concept of liberation and pervasive media is quite thought provoking for developing a piece on the high street. This is because the vast ideas and techniques which can be utilised for this type of performance are limitless, but it is also a huge challenge to effectively pull it off.

Bibliography
Pearson, M. (2010) Site Specific Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan