“Inspired by our conversations Quarantine will make a series of pavement plaques in Manchester – flat monuments to ordinary people and everyday events. A collision of personal histories and city geographies” (Quarantine, 2015).
Quarantine seeks to remember the events that are a day to day part of people’s life in this future performance. Not of all the specific memories have altered the shape and history of Manchester but are individuals’ stories about people as they go about their day.
This made me think of the Drill Hall and the meeting that have gone on in the hall which would be to ‘no consequence’ of the overall history of the building yet that should still be memorised. For example ‘who should be the female attendant in the ladies toilet for a dance’? We should not just include the larger moments that shaped the building but every moment in between that we are aware of.
Quarantine (2015) WALKING BACKWARDS [online] Quarantine. Available from: http://qtine.com/work/walking-backwards-2/ [Accessed 23 February 2015].