Sunday, Encounter with a Stranger Video Documentation

Anna Fenemore is a lecturer in theatre and performance (Physical Theatre) at Leeds university. On sunday she came in and took us for a workshop on experiencing creativity.

At the start of the workshop Anna asked us to draw a map on the world on a piece of paper without any guidance or references and to see how they came out. When we gathered together and looked at the maps we could see that everyone had put the UK at the centre of the map and had drawn it far bigger than it should be, she used this exercise to illustrate to us how we are all at the centre of our own worlds and how our own experiences always seem huge, even though in relation to the world they are small.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXCnw4RqDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBEMdn086l0

Then she set us a task to walk around the area outside of the building, walking for ten minutes and recording any 'milestone' experiences we had on the walks.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4RyRbTGlM

Then when we came back and created a rough map of our routes and marking our points of interest and told that we will have to make an installation for exeryone to experience at our points with the task of creating 'An encounter with a stranger'

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrvRFhQs4q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChQ4IPaGe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEnHO4R4yoU

We were then asked to set up anything we needed at the point of interest and then to set a route that we were going to take on the map to experience everyones encounters.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=150zCp2gxtA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1-EZiWkKeE

We then went out on our route and experienced everybodies encounter with a stranger.

Here are the videos from my phone of the encounters:

Emma M: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BB43WYFH_4

Rachel: 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMa6cEe68Lw
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cG2wRgsC8c

Lisa: 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMBtDqNoBNo
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF9HU4fmoU0

Hannah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIqGv4gODc

Chloe: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FsVXhMd9I
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRFTy-4TO8

Emma T: 1, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgogXRmu-c
1, part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a07N1L15u_Q
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOivzR46kek
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiSMAcICE9g
4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLv_2jomYuI
5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvw0KSdGYI

After experiencing the encounters we were then asked to get into pairs and to create a response to the encounters or to a specific encounter and to create an installation.

Here is a video of Tom and Rachel explaining the task:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAk1rhpZ6s

Here are the videos of the response installations:

Tom and Rachel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOQslnBmGOM
Chloe and Emma M: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i8qnoEBA4w
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heSy9SJzbwk
Lisa and Emma T: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j_vOmsTDBg

We then went back to the dance studio and we reflected on the responses.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5M0Eyy5a8

Then Anna went on to discuss the theory behind the differences in mapping and touring and how this can help our creative process.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYgvAroV4Rw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sc3uQfBZw

She then rounded the workshop off on some discussion on theory on documentation and it's different types and how that can be essential to us as contemporary artists.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCelO0yu69g