Whilst reading different chapters from different books and looking deeper into our site we are beginning to develop our ideas for performance. We have decided to use the high street in its entirety for our performance so are therefore looking into the history and archives of all areas of the high street to help develop the context of maybe some of the quotes we may use on giant speech bubbles/placards. We want to be able to see the high street in many different forms so will be combining our knowledge of historical happenings with our observing of occurrences in present day high street to influence our different synchronised times when performing our piece.
One quote that highly interested us was that of Guy Debord in ‘The Society of the Spectacle’; “There can be no freedom apart from activity, and within the spectacle all activity is banned a corollary of the fact that all real activity has been forcibly channelled into a global construction of the spectacle. So what is referred to as “liberation from work,” that is, increased leisure time, is a liberation neither within labour itself nor from the world labour has brought into being.” (Debord, 1995, p.9)
I feel this quote is appropriate for our performance piece because it discusses the fact that all ‘real activity’ is banned in the ‘spectacle’ meaning no one is able to behave in a way that is seen as original activity that they thought of themselves instead they act in a way that society expects them to. We will be exploring this by breaking social expectations and liberating society from social norms.

Referenced:
Debord, G. (1995) The Society of the Spectacle. Translated from French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books.