The premise for our performance stands predominately on the fact that we are taking a usually mundane area (the high street) and putting something that doesn’t belong there.Whilst looking back through the readings we had been given I re read tumble weed, which is all about exactly that. This quote stood out to me ‘ meandering is becoming increasingly unfamiliar; regarded as aimless and wasting time, it is perceived as a lower-social-status activity. ‘Time is money’, and one is encouraged to be constantly in flux,’ (Jones,2010) . this sums up the high street perfectly. On the high street everyone has a purpose, everyone is always moving trying to get to a destination. This is why we want to change that. The simple idea of putting something that doesn’t belong in a space, will change the purpose of space, we want to take what is ordinary and add something out of the ordinary.

This is also the reason we want to put the speech bubbles on poles so they can be seen above the crowds, also we want to experiment with both lots of movement as well as lack of movement, to both mimic and juxtapose what is commonly seen on the high street.

After doing the mini task where we fist experimented with speech bubbles, we also wanted to expand on the idea of interaction. The reactions we received especially on the escalators is something else we wanted to explore, taking people out of there own world getting them away from their phone screens and focusing on something else.

Reference: Blundell Jones, C. (2010) Walking, the Western and the tumbleweed. Visual Studies. 25 (1) 87-88

Although the work done for Sardine Street and the work we are hoping to produce differ, their process is especially interesting to me. I use the bottom part of the high street every day but often walk through it unaware of what is going on around me, either using it as a path to get me somewhere else or a quick stop off to buy something I need. After reading Sardine street I was introduced to new ways of viewing it. ‘you need to be hyper-sensitised to the flows, stories and textures of what is around you’ (Crab man& Signpost, 2011). This is why as a group we are going to spend time exploring the high street using ‘The Elements’ mentioned in the book.

Lincoln in steeped in history being one of the oldest towns in Britain so although our piece is observational we wanted to look into the history behind specific points in the town such as the Bailgate, Jews house and St Mary’s Le Wigford. Which Sardine Street suggests however this is not what particularly drew me to the reading  is the other ‘Elements’. I am most interested in ‘static drifts’ I think it will be interested to stop and sit still in an area where people are constantly moving, so this is what we are going to do. We are going to use the idea of static drifts in order to find movements and ideas that we can use throughout the duration of our piece.

Persighetti, S., Smith, P. (2011) A Sardine Street Box of Tricks. Plymouth: Blurb Inc

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]