I have found a nice old bus depot that I can use to blow up my balloon till it pops which will hopefully be to 24ft! Apparently this place used to be the tram depot for leeds. The thing with using a place like this is that the audience is really down to who I would invite, I have been informed that the more the merrier. The idea of there being witnesses instead of an audience interests me. I don't feel that it's a show I want people to watch but more something that has to be experienced. I am also really interested in the fact that the balloon will be blocking the daylight coming in from the top windows when it gets too big. Infact on a really bright day it will probably glow through. I also found on the net an extremely large following for balloon fetishes of which I was completely oblivious too! I wonder if their reaction would be any different to a large balloon going bang?! Maybe I'll just have to find out.
Sunday, 26 April 2009
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I have found a nice old bus depot that I can use to blow up my balloon till it pops which will hopefully be to 24ft! Apparently this place used to be the tram depot for leeds. The thing with using a place like this is that the audience is really down to who I would invite, I have been informed that the more the merrier. The idea of there being witnesses instead of an audience interests me. I don't feel that it's a show I want people to watch but more something that has to be experienced. I am also really interested in the fact that the balloon will be blocking the daylight coming in from the top windows when it gets too big. Infact on a really bright day it will probably glow through. I also found on the net an extremely large following for balloon fetishes of which I was completely oblivious too! I wonder if their reaction would be any different to a large balloon going bang?! Maybe I'll just have to find out.
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try and find a forum or group for people with balloon fetishes and invite them, would add a different spectrum to the audience. would the audience be more anxious of the balloons activities or something else... ha ha
ReplyDeleteI say the more the merrier, however at the same time you don't want too many people, maybe hard to capture peoples responses...
The audience as witness is a really interesting idea. The two contexts for witness are religious and legal. They both suggest a ritualistic aspect to what we do when we ‘witness’ something, especially the religious associations, (Jehovah’s Witnesses etc.)
ReplyDeleteThe fact that witnesses verify the truth and that Keats the poet stated that ‘beauty is truth’ creates another possible conjunction between Plato’s idea of universals (which included of course the sphere as a Platonic Solid) and the fact that balloons themselves are particulars.
Would you get the audience to sign witness statements?
I managed to have the audience sign disclaimer forms! So I do have evidence in that respect. That is very interesting about the religious aspect as I have been mainly focusing on death as the unknown. The witnesses' within my staged event then become the most important part of my video piece. It became resolved when I realised that the 'unknown' and tension within my work became the most important element, therefore the video will only consist of audience reaction.
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