Week 6

Week 6

In today's lesson the rest of my group and i went on a walk recording audio for our final performance (for which the layout had changed in my absence, we were now recording audio but no one really knew why), we used a phone to record the audio which was a mistake as there was too much background noise, but nevertheless we powered on making adjustments to the locations in which we wanted to gather sound samples, we varied through a range of experiments such as speaking directly at the microphone part of the phone, or cupping the mic to achieve less background noise. in the end it was decided that there was too much noise so we downloaded the music samples online.

Freshwater, H (2009) Theatre & Audience, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-27

Freshwater begins by explaining that the audience is just as important to a performance than the performance itself, and that this is a fairly new discovery as before the 20th century it was mostly unacknowledged.
She lets us know that directors have now began to leave performance unorganized, n longer acquiring a specific location. Freshwater then finishes highlighting that theater doesn't need a costume or props to become a performance.

O’Donnell, D (2006) ‘An Aesthetic of Civic Engagement’ in Social Acupuncture - A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia, Toronto: Coach House Books, pp.25-45

 Darren O'Donnel is not in favor of the role that art plays in the influence of society. His view is that art is rather powerless in its ability to change the world. He goes on to compare this to the understanding of how the individual is almost powerless to change society. He then goes on to explain 'activism art', a form of art that carries political and social contents, that may not look like art but carries within it critical messages