Performance #3 Evans Creek Park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mendieta

Performance #3 - Evans Creek Park - Performing the Urban Forrest

Scheduled to take place, Wednesday March 13th, 1pm!  Invite people!  We will make a flyer!

Objective:
Create an original, solo-performance work to take place within the geographical confines of Evan's Creek Park. See the googlemap below for a reference on the location.  We've gone from semi-private Skyped Monologues to taking on public and semi-public spaces for your Performative Reenactments.  For this assignment, you are creating a performance for a public space that lies quite literally on the border between our urban and "natural" environments.  I would suggest this as a point of ideation for all of you to think about carefully.  We live in a unique geographical area surrounded by harsh desert, lush alpine mountains - we are quite literally within walking distance of wide open spaces.

Developing Your Concepts:
Consider this an opportunity to investigate solo-performative activities within a public, semi-natural space.  The area in question is within the area of a "park", what is a "park" and why do they exist?  Think about actions, movements, rituals, sounds that might somehow bring something meaningful to this space.  Think about your audience - are they spectators or willing or unwilling participants/collaborators?  Do you want to build a temporal installation or leave something in place?  Most importantly, visit the space in question prior to developing your ideas.  You are to respond to this location in developing your ideas.

Some Ground Rules:
Do no harm.  Any materials that would potentially remain in the park should be harmless to the natural environment and or all foreign objects could be removed at the end of the event.  Be mindful and respectful of the public space to which we are visiting.  10 -15 minute pieces maxium.

Some Artists to Look At:
Fern Shaffer: http://greenmuseum.org/content/work_index/img_id-206__prev_size-0__artist_id-20__work_id-46.html
Andy Goldsworthy: http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/
Richard Long: http://www.richardlong.org/Sculptures/sculptures11.html
Anna Mendieta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Mendieta
Kathryn Miller: http://www.kathrynamiller.com/seedbombs.html
Greenmuseum: http://greenmuseum.org/ (look at the amazing list of artists, many perform in the landscape)

Location:
I've cut a section from the map to show the more precise location for your performances.



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Note the "Evans Creek Trail" leading to the "Nature Trail", the latter is where your performances will be held.