Using Influences of Willi Dorner, who used bodies to fill unusual spaces as a performance who, through balancing, making shapes, fills un noticed spaces. “The intention of “bodies in urban spaces” is to point out the urban functional structure and to uncover the restricted movement possibilities and behaviour as well as rules and limitations. By placing the bodies in selected spots the interventions provoke a thinking process and produce irritation.” (Dorner, 2007) We focussed on the outdoor area of our site and the cafe area and looked for unusual spaces, such as underneath the desk at reception, the curve in the pillar, the gaps in the gate and a space in a doorway. We then took these images and re created them in a different space as you can see from out doorway image we recreated this in the middle of a room. It made me feel closer to the space as i was feeling textures i had never felt before such as my face on the carpet on a stair case, the laminated floor on the whole of my body, but most memorable was the coldness from the outside, but the idea of getting intimate with the space and almost becoming the space really intrigued me.
We were told to write a piece about what we had experienced: As i leant my face against the fence, which to me at first is just a normal fence, i then began to feel the hard coldness that sent sharp pains through my body. watching peoples reactions and i stood staring at passers by was quite amusing some didn’t even react they just merely looked away, almost trying to act as if we were not there and not part of this space. As i tightly gripped my delicate hands around the silver railings outside i felt as if i were becoming a part of a frozen image too, trying to stay still and not look unusual. These objects which noone had thought to get in touch with their senses with were now more intriguing and almost part of a performance, becoming just more than an un-noticed piece of architecture.
We then took our favourite spaces and made the rest of the class copy our pictures and hold them for 5 seconds, then rotating so they each got to hold every image. This became almost like a drill of movements
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. We then decided that for our next lesson, which we had to develop our previous task, that we would use our positions and turn them into exercises such as squats (influenced from a picture of me crouching hugging a post), sit ups (taken from us hanging upside down clinging onto a pole), press ups (taken from an image of us lying on top of a pole) etc. The audience said they liked being involved in our performance and we liked the motion of setting them tasks, telling them what to do.
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