How do you build site-related objects in the grandstand out of chairs and tables? This was the dilemma our group was faced with. Whilst trying out ideas for our site-specific performance we thought about constructing a horse out of the objects we had available. So how did it go? The evidence is below…

You can see a sort of outline of a horse, however it was pointed out to our group by our tutor that what we had created could be a tank. So running with the idea of the tank we tweaked our creation slightly to create more of a tank shape. By merely moving the chairs on the table to a more central position and turning the top chair around so as the legs represent that of guns.

Going along with our theme, of the grandstand’s use in the World Wars, we created a tunnel out of chairs and a trench out of tables. These can be seen below…

(Picture above shows the tunnel we created out of chairs)

Exploring the site allowed our group to use our imagination to re-invent the site. We felt that using the objects within the building really shows how the grandstand has changed. Our group idea is still a work in progress but there is a lot of potential to create something powerful that makes the audience think.