LIVING GALLERY

In today's lesson, Phoebe and I began to develop our ideas for our paired duet piece. We grouped together and shared our thoughts on different pieces from the TATE gallery. This would become our stimulus.

Phoebe shared her image and I shared mine. I chose to explore the Gaonkar exhibit. Which was a sound responsive piece. We brainstorm what we could do with a sound responsive piece of art as our stimulus. We could've had a speaker and every time the sound gets high pitch we change our body shape. Or manipulate sound with our voices. However, we eventually turned this idea down as we thought this could be very restricting to only focus on sound as the audience will be milling around and viewing us. We finally settled on this piece of art shown below.

Suspended

This piece, called 'Lightning with Stag in its Glare' by Joseph Beuys, is interesting as it shows a triangular structure being suspended from a high ceiling. Both Phoebe and I thought of this as exciting as we thought we could play around with the idea of claustrophobic spaces. Phoebe came up with the idea that the giant shard of suspended metal represents a persons image of themselves in their head, whilst the solid beam holding it up is our self confidence.

From this, phoebe and I developed the idea that our piece could include puppeteer. I could use a rope or a piece of string wrapped around her arms to create the illusion of a puppet and it's master. We would then take the puppet on a walk throughout the school. This is an effective idea as it creates multiple opportunities for the audience to develop their own interpretations, not just ours as the piece is vague.

Stimulus image for our devising