Author: Rebecca Anne Lothian

My book

Rebecca Anne Lothian / / Tasks

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Inspired by my original book title “How to Read Palms”, I gathered information on how he basics of the art of reading palms and predicting someone’s personality or likely destiny. It intrigued me to think about how we can read things sometimes and as a reader it can lead to our own interpretations and how this relates to performance with an audience. I wrote the full text onto the card, before cutting away the information to create the shape of hands, this pushes the idea that you can never grasp the full knowledge the text gives. There are several infinities with books, texts and authors, which is the same concept of our Site.

 

Theatre and Architecture

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Juliet Rufford quotes in her book, “For Copeau, architecture is the most fundamental and consistently overlooked aspect of the theatre.” (Rufford, 2015, 2).

Until the Site-specific session on Wednesday the 28th January, I would have never linked buildings with theatre, except from the idea of space and where you are performing. This session and reading has inspired me to look at buildings as performers themselves. The library is filled with layers of context, history, memories and double meanings, not only being a place of work for academics, but also for the industrial and manual work that happened there years before. This concept and notion of a performing place has inspired me to think of all other buildings and what they mean or what they could be performing to the people who enter it. Therefore, I couldn’t agree more than with the statement above as it has made me see the University Library with open eyes and an equally open mind.