Our performance has changed so many times, discussing whether we wanted it to be purely focused audience and their experiences, thoughts and reactions on vulerability and exposure, or did we want to do it so it was more personal to us as a group. We tried different experiments to aid our performance and to somehow help us in what direction we wanted to go in. One of the elements of our performance that we was sure on is that we wanted it to be durational.

One of the ideas we had for the performance was to exhibit our past experiments in one studio, but i felt it was was too performancy. I wanted something personal, breaking down barriers between the audience and performer but also breaking down personal barriers for myself.

The idea of the piece being durational and actually having something coutning down in the performance was to show the audience that something, whether it be big or small, but something will happen in the 2 hours we have in the space, and it is their own choice whether to stay throughout or go and come back. Edward Scheer states that “Duration often refers to the actual time that it takes to do things” (2012, pg. 1) i agree with this statement allthough, the time it takes us to get undressed in the space to make ourselves vulnerable can take a while. Additionally, Scheer also states “shaping of it to effect a particular experience for the viewer or the audience”( 21012, pg. 1) by making the performance durational also give the piece a chance to develop physically and emotionally the longer the performance will go on the more vulnerable we become as performers and spectators.

In relation to our performance we are hoping to have a projection of a countdown clock that will be counting down from roughly 2hours, which will give the performance a sense of movement and will tell the audience that something will happen in the space.

 

 

Scheer, Edward (2012)Introduction: The end of spatiality or the meaning of duration, Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, 17(5), pg.1-3.