During our Site Specific Module we did a lot of interesting exercises which helped us to be more creative, open minded and brought us one step closer to our final piece. Noticing the unnoticed spaces at the Lincoln Drill Hall was one of those exercises. During the exercise we had to use our bodies in order to highlight unnoticed spaces and then re-create the shapes of our bodies in a different room. In the beginning, it sounded difficult to do and I had a lot of questions in my mind. For example, what is considered an ‘unnoticed space’? And how is it possible to re-enact the shapes of your body that have been made on a wall, to another surface? The answer was simple: this exercise was not about trying to explain things with logic but it was about “doing” and all the questions would be answered.
My team and I tried to fill a lot of different spaces that we thought to be unnoticed. In the beginning it was the space between the worktop and the ceiling. Later on it was a small space in the cafe and a fogotten corner next to the stairs.
However, the space that really caught our attention was a wooden door in the middle of a brick wall. We found that the door was hard to notice and we started thinking how many people would have been walked without realising that the door is there. We also wondered if the door was still used form the people of the Drill Hall and where it led. With all these in mind we started using our bodies, creating shapes on the wooden surface.
For our final task we decided to re-create the shapes of our bodies to a place that was the exact opposite of the door. So we transfered our piece to the stairs next to the small stage in the cafe. We thought that the stairs were one of the most noticeable spaces in the Drill Hall since people perform next to them quite a lot.
To complete our piece we combined the physical shapes with two poems that were written by Heather, the same day, specifically for our performance. While Molly was recording the performance, I was recording Molly and the performance through her camera to create two different points of view! Here is the result: