From last weeks work we have concluded that an intense audio experience is an idea we want to explore. Our partly improvised 3 minute piece left us with feedback that it enabled the audience it created their own version of the city within their own imaginations. This evermore pushing Chloe and I towards the theme of a dream like state within the city. As the audience also responded well to the background audio track, saying it contrasted with my slower and calming voice we felt that this is something that could be more deeply explored.

Researching dreams I have found Freud’s theories could have some relevance to our performance. For example, “It cures sorrow by joy, cares by hopes and pictures of happy distraction” (Freud, 1953, 83) It seems innately human to dream if to dream to bring such emotion to the body. That is the sort of emotion that I want to bring to a person just walking down the street. To be connected to the area around you and yourself enough to create your own world.

Freud, S. The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Volume IV (1990) The The The Interpretation of Dreams 1. London: The Hogarth Press. 

The section that struck me most in Etchells 8 Fragments was Observation/Coincidence. He talks about how we walk by people every day not interacting. For instance, “we pass each other like objects on a projection line.” (Etchells, 1999, 79). It both has such poignancy and relates to how Chloe and I are working. We are creating a dream- like space on the high street. One of the performance features will be freedom to speak as you wish. So Etchells could be a great influence and enable us to create a space in which we can utilise the “endless possibilities of passing each other on the street” (Etchells, 1999, 79).

Etchells, T. (1999) Certain Fragements. London: Routledge.

What I have learned from Mike Pearson’s Introduction is that the space is a performance in itself. That’s what makes a Site Specific performance so interesting, there are so many ways in which it can differ.

“regarding site as vacant space awaiting performance” Pearson, M. (2010) Site Specific Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.