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Images
1 Start of project Kathy Old ridge
2 End of Day Author
3 Group Drawings Author
4 Experimenting with tape Trish Bould
5 Drawing dance Simon Drayson
6 Performance Author
7 Performance Author
8 Performance
9 Diary Paul Cahsin
10 Diary Stephen Dryburg
11 Diary Simon Roscoe
Appendix
Drawing and Recording
Group 1 Library Sound and text
Students were made aware of how hearing sound affects all the other senses, and our percep-
tion is interconnected. Students started with quite conventional plans. Using words as well,
they manipulated drawings that become expressive of their experience of moving in a space
that has a very specific purpose and shape. Manipulation of words contributed to their ability
to describe the feeling of the space.
Group 2 Upper Terrace Sight
As with touch, the students started off by blindfolding themselves. It is so taken for granted
that we use our eyes to see and understand the world. A more productive exercise was to have
one person in the middle of a group who guided him; He could see but was not in control of
his contact with the space around him. This progressed to exploring the potential of the space
for movement, and their relationship with ‘bounded space’ and the ‘space beyond’.
Group 3 Liongate Courtyard. Taste
Taste was the most difficult. The link with the canteen was tenuous, and the group concentrated
on breathing and inhaling. This could be translated into body movement and freedom to dance