Types Of Performance

– Walking , audio tour or instructions
– Interactive/Pervasive – partcipants are told.- Sculptural – and object/occurence that can and has changed the site. Static Art.
– One to one. Performer and audience.
– Video, film, create a performative film.
– Digital – sound files
– Inhabited/Process driven

Rebecca Elizabeth Bierton

Analysis of Potential Recording Locations

A.V. Room:
Little noise from window. Plenty from the study area. Good for creating a listening area, but unsuitable for recording anyone.

Floor 1 – Group Room 2:
Quiet apart from wind and sounds from open window. Minor keyboard tapping. May be less suitable when busier. Has computer which may be helpful in recording/prompting readers. Adequate space to set up equipment. Comfortable table for participants.

Group Room 1:
Similar to Group Room 1, but is more private. However, has slight electrical buzz. Could investigate to see if it can be disabled.

UL303: Looks good, but currently occupied. Same with various other group rooms, but they are of less interest.

Silent Floor: Quiet enough for exhibition as long as headphones are not too loud. Could be done in cubicles.

Josh Curran

Facts and Fairytales – an art ‘book.’

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Finding time to pick up a good piece of fiction and get lost within the story is rare. In fact the only time I find myself lost in any form of fiction is when I’m asleep, in an allusive non-realistic dream.I know this is the case with a lot of university students. We often find ourselves only rummaging through book after book to gain factual knowledge or understand different theories or interpretations.

Therefore I decided to a create a book of fairy-tales.

Why fairy-tales? With the stress of deadlines, research and performance – it is nice to sometimes just follow a story that seems utterly unrealistic. More importantly, a fairy-tale book can be read anywhere, it isn’t attached to a particular site.

I thought back to a time of when fairy-tales really meant something. Childhood. However, there’s little use reading a fantasy story now and hoping to get lost within it like I did when I was eight.

I decided to look into the original series of Grimm’s Fairy-tales, first published in 1812.

I wasn’t thinking of the commercialised versions with happy endings such as Hansel and Gretel killing the witch and finding their way home, but the real true publications which were censored and some banned  for being far too violently descriptive and frightening for children. In these versions, Hansel and Gretel brutally murder the witch, never find their parents and are forced to live a life in the woods…alone.  Perhaps too frightening for children, but perfect for students aged 18 upwards.

I was set on this idea, but I still needed to make something that was interesting to look at, but practical in terms of time.  I decided my book must have many pictures (after all, a picture is worth a thousand words), short snippets of fantasy text and be visually stimulating.

I went back to my thought of dreams. If the only time I managed to get lost in a story was in a dream, then I would have to create a book that could be read when sleeping. Impossible. Or not…

In fact there is a huge market of ‘books’ which cater to sleep and dreaming. Baby mobiles! Often having different characters, shapes, colours: all in order to create a story, sort of safety blanket to encourage happy dreams if a baby does stir from sleep.

I began to create my own, with string, burnt paper and dead flowers -using characters from Grimm’s fairy-tales. A scary picture of Hansel and Gretel pushing the witch into an oven, a boy who had lied so much that his nose became too big for him to walk, and his parents abandoned him and short sections of text all about the consequences of being bad.

My art book, on the contrary to traditional fairy-tale books is specific to site.
It can only be read to its full potential hanging over a bed. This is because its full potential would mean engaging with it when stirred from sleep, with the hope it might influence your dreams.

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Drawing’s from Different Perspectives.

When I was first given my drawing of part of the library it was just a drawing of a sign. I decided that I would re-draw the sign but try and do it the same, a copy, just as books in the library are the same if they are a copy of the same book. This shows that even the library signs are in unison just like copies of books.

The original drawing.
The original drawing.

For my third perspective I was thinking about food and how the library and food have a relationship. I know that our library only has food zones. You cannot eat near the books or the computers. This made me start to think about how we need food to enable us to be productive and mentally access the information within the book to enhance our knowledge. So my idea for the third perspective was that food is our highway to knowledge, that I could portray a book with food around the edge as if the food has fallen out the book. This shows that food and knowledge are inter-dependable so it is vital to eat on the search for knowledge. Food zones in a library are a necessity.

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After I completed the task I thought about how libraries and supermarkets are laid out. They are very similar with certain foods, in supermarkets, being displayed in certain sections just as books in a library are in different reference sections. It would be interesting if these two building could be put together to see how we can make food and the library work together.

Samantha Foster.

Artistic Book

After some research to look at an artistic book and to use my own book titles. I thought about one title that I thought that I could create a none conventional book. The book title was Growth of a Flower. I then looked at the use of paper. I found some paper that had different images of a girl growing up in to a women. This was going to be the outside of my book, with a flower flowing out of it. Showing the growth of a person like a flower.

My Artistic book.
My Artistic book.

 

The outside of my book.
The outside of my book.

This idea can also show the relationship between nature and paper, the source that books are made out of. The flower that is made out of paper shows the transformation of a tree that was nature that had been changed in to paper and then changed back in to a flower. So it would be interesting to explore this idea of nature and the paper of a book.

Samantha Foster.