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So we’ve been asked to give presentations in seminar as groups on how each of our works link…I’ve been grouped with the lovely Jess Fisher and Jeewoo Chang…which I very happy with because I really like both their practices…so it makes it a bit easier…after a meeting talking about how are work linked we came to a standstill. The most obvious way our work links is that we all use humour, but the problem is we all use humour in such different ways. So we talked about various other ideas, before deciding that we all do performance in a rather authoritative way, so this is an element we should present. This is in the sense that we all maintain a lot of control over our performances, and don’t tend to leave things to chance…so we came up with the idea of doing manuals, to instruct the seminar in how to construct our work and make their own version of it.
I will be making an ‘IKEA’ style flat pack instruction kit, instructing the user on how to put together the set pieces for a performance, and then instructing them on what game to play in this created environment. The game I have chosen is ‘sleeping lion’, where one person is hunter and the rest are lions. The lions have to lye on the floor and pretend to sleep and the hunter has to try and make them move without touching them. The set pieces I have design are a giraffe and a small version of ‘pride rock’ from ‘the lion king’. All they will have to do is attach the stands to them.
The presentation went well. My participants managed to put together the set, with only a little bit of my interference. Then our seminar tutor, Gill, encourage the whole seminar to play the game, with me as hunter…which I wasn’t very comfortable with, as I don’t like performing myself, but it was good fun anyway…we talked about it a bit after, and I talked about how the manual was in essence me, as they took the role we would take in a performance (i.e as more of a director than performer). But I also talked about how I didn’t like the lack of control giving power over to a manual gave me. We also decided that talking about the presentation was counter productive, as everyone got an understanding of our work but ‘making it’, which is what we wanted, so task completed.