Whilst the five main aspects of our installation are taking place, our own group performance will be a range of material that we have incorporated to see the affect of our own personal mood and not the audience.
A few ideas we have thought about are:
-Sitting for an hour with no communication.
-Exercising for an hour. Not stopping once.
-Doing a Jigsaw puzzle.
– Reading the same page over and over again.
– Staring and a clock for an hour, saying aloud the time every minute.
– Saying aloud the alphabet for an hour over and over again.
– Applying make-up and removing it.
These tasks will all have a huge effect on the human body physically and mentally. If we fail to finish our own set task, we decided that it might be good idea to swap tasks with a different member of the group and to see if their body can cope with the situation better than the last member. This will evidently show how different exercises can affect the moods of different individuals and how their body can cope with different tasks.
Similarly to the Ambravoic Method, ‘The method exposes the mind-set of the performer to the public and involves a series of exercises and environments’ (2013) http://www.marinaabramovicinstitute.org/mission/the-abramovic-method
Our piece is all about the mind set of the audience and what mood they are feeling. This method is similar to ours as our piece also involves a series of exercises that the audience members need to participate in to get the appropriate outcome.
The questions that come to mind when preparing our installation:
Why are they in that specific mood?
How can we change their mood?
Do our exercises have the same response for all of our audience members?
What would change my mood?
There are many questions that come to mind when preparing this installation, seeing as though we cannot pre run this experiment as we want the final piece to be THE experiment.