The last week we as a group finalised our site location. The location of the high bridge, which is located on the centre of a high street, which could be referred to as a non-place. After dwelling into the history of the site, we learnt a lot about the site, such as the bridge once held a church, which was built in honour of Tomas Beckett. So this site has holy history, after the church as removed a statue placed, called the Obelisk. This statue was removed off the high bridge during the 1930’s due to fears that the high bridge structure could not maintain the weight of the Obelisk; in 1996 the structure was rebuilt lower down the high street.
Having this history on our site, has opened a lot of options for our group piece, the idea of a piece around the Obelisk. The history of the structure once was a source of water for the locals of Lincoln. As it has been 20 years since the rebuilding of the Obelisk, and due to it begin a source of water, our groups plan is to rebuild the structure to as closely as possible to the actually size, width and depth but out of water bottles. We would also right people’s answers on the water bottles of random questions that could be stuck to each of the water bottles. This could nicely immerse the audience in the performance, as well as bringing in forced entertainment elements, as we will be gathering these weird and wild answers from the public. In addition, we want people to be involved in the overall performance, by asking them to help us to build the structure or knock it down or anything in between. Now we need to move further with our answers from the public and now we need to look into practitioners that can aid our performance.
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