Me, Louisa, Jenny and Lotty decided to meet and talk about our progress on our projects, as well as doing some workshop activities to help us move forward.
We began by sharing any developments we had for our projects. I explained that I had made the decision to no longer have my participants do a solo off-site audio walk, and instead I wanted my work to be based solely inside the 'instillational hub' that I mentioned during the exercise with Elenor, whilst implementing the audio ideas into this.
Louisa, Jenny and Lotty shared some of their ideas for their projects, and then we decided to do an activity called 'Clean Questions', which helps to raise questions and find answers regarding your work. The idea of clean questions is that one person asks questions and another answers. The first question is always "What would you like to happen?" - in this case this is referring to during the performance. The maker will answer this question, and then the person asking the questions will take something that stood out during their answer and ask them to say more about it. This can be asked in many different ways; "Is there anything else about...?", "What kind of...?", "What does...look like?", "Does...have a sound/shape/smell?", "Where is...?" etc. This section can get quite repetitive if done correctly, as the questioner will delve deeper into the makers' explanations until they have as much detail as they think they can. The final question is "What do you know now that you didn't know before?", and this is a useful way for the maker to remember and summarise what they have spoken about, and identify the important and useful parts of this.
I found this exercise really useful, as Louisa (my questioner) asked things that I had never considered, meaning that I thought about them for the first time and made decisions in order to answer them - helping me to create a clearer image of my work in my head.
We began by sharing any developments we had for our projects. I explained that I had made the decision to no longer have my participants do a solo off-site audio walk, and instead I wanted my work to be based solely inside the 'instillational hub' that I mentioned during the exercise with Elenor, whilst implementing the audio ideas into this.
Louisa, Jenny and Lotty shared some of their ideas for their projects, and then we decided to do an activity called 'Clean Questions', which helps to raise questions and find answers regarding your work. The idea of clean questions is that one person asks questions and another answers. The first question is always "What would you like to happen?" - in this case this is referring to during the performance. The maker will answer this question, and then the person asking the questions will take something that stood out during their answer and ask them to say more about it. This can be asked in many different ways; "Is there anything else about...?", "What kind of...?", "What does...look like?", "Does...have a sound/shape/smell?", "Where is...?" etc. This section can get quite repetitive if done correctly, as the questioner will delve deeper into the makers' explanations until they have as much detail as they think they can. The final question is "What do you know now that you didn't know before?", and this is a useful way for the maker to remember and summarise what they have spoken about, and identify the important and useful parts of this.
I found this exercise really useful, as Louisa (my questioner) asked things that I had never considered, meaning that I thought about them for the first time and made decisions in order to answer them - helping me to create a clearer image of my work in my head.
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