*Excuse my English grammar
It is true to say that almost every single buildings has some histories and Grandstand as well.
The answers were at archives that we visited few weeks ago. We could find some photos, maps and newspaper.
From those resources, we could see the fact of Grandstand was a aero plains factory during the World War but on the other hand in few years later Expo’69 is held.
Is this a contrast in between war time and peaceful days? Ironically or …?
We are not a psychic and we never knows what places are thinking of but we can imagine that in any sort of ways. Because places have seen many eras and maybe it is not always a joy.
Are there any pain, are there any things that they would like to let us to know or a things that they would like to remember/forget? So we written a letter to the Grandstand;
Dear Grandstand
I don’t know how long have you spent the time and how it passed since after the war.
How many years have you counted? How many dawn and twilight have you counted? How many people have looked at you and still remembered the these days? I don’t know about you well but I could touches your fragments.
Dear Grandstand, war is over and we won’t hear the sound of gunshots and roar of other people but we can’t hear the sounds of gallop racing anymore too.
Yours sincerely
We sure about that places never talk about their history but keep presenting.
Therefore we can see and feel.
It is invisible and it requires a long term to get to know and the answers are all in our conscious.
“The final test of site-specificity, though, is in a question: would a particular work be recognisably the same if performed in a different sites?
Apply that criterion, and you find out how much the spirit of the place is key to the spirit of the piece”
(Ray, 20002, [available at]http://sanjoyroy.net/2002/10/spirit-of-place-site-specific-performances/)
Refrence
Roy, Sanjoy (2002). Spirit of place: site-specific performances Taking dance out of the theatre – and the theatre out of the dance?. Writing on Dance, [Blog] Available at: http://sanjoyroy.net/2002/10/spirit-of-place-site-specific-performances/ [Accessed 3 March 2014]