Week 6 (4th March):

Yesterday (Monday the 2nd March) my group met to discuss and finalise our pitch.

The current basis of our piece is five bodies presented in the gallery, each with a selection of different aesthetics. It will be a duration performance, with sets of two or three performers taking 20-30 minutes shifts at any one time.  Each performer will have a guest book in which the audience will be invited to leave comments and feedback  about the performer as a piece of art. The possible alternative for this is a book that contains questions about the performers identity, the audiences answers would help us gauge their perceptions of identity and whether their perceptions were different because of the setting of The Usher Gallery. One of these ideas will serve a our method of documentation. Personally I am not keen on the idea of a questionnaire, as I feel we run the risk of asking leading questions. This will result in the answers not being valid. I also feel that an audience won’t want to take the time to fill out a formal looking questionnaire.

We have decided the key Aims/Purposes of our piece are as follows:

• To challenge the artistic representation of the human form.
• To separate art from ‘the artist’  in order to appreciate its beauty without attachment to an identity.

The task we have identified for ourselves prior to the performance are:

• Collect possible ideas for questionnaire questions from Gallery guests.
• Investigate the physical and moral conditions of our desired space.