This is a pen… is it true?

*Excuse my gramer of English

The question is we know it is a IT self by following the either fact or evidence.
However, are we able to say that from bottom of our heart?
When did we know it is a fact…? Are there any evidence for it at all?

This is because we actually understand that it is a true because other people already shown the evidence.

However, what is going to be happen if we asked to ourselves like conciously?
By this I mean as a Grandstand, people already looked at the venue as some kind of horse racing field or horse breeding place but are there any different way of to look at this venue?

For example, materials that people can find at here:wood, golf balls, rubbish, dried leaves and plastics.
Are these describes that here is a racing field?

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At that time now, the sounds that we can hear mostly is car noise, birds tweeting and silence.
It is easy to say that Grandstand is a horse racing stand but is it true for us?

9 am at Grandstand…

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*Excuse my grammer of English

At 9 am, still cold temperature…

However, this time we had a different targets such as to create some ‘Artistic pieces’.
But I think I should start to talk about some historic background about venue.
It is very hard for me to talk about because it is all luck of my understanding.

It is obvious that Grandstand is basically the venue of people watched some horse racing but in our case we have to (or we need to) feel/to get either emontions and atomosphere. It is not as a nature, human beings, technologies or materials.
By this I mean what we felt from this venue generally is one of a key element I suppose.
When we  walked around Grandstand this time, we were able to find many stuffs and places and I personally became more interest about this place.

For example, in outside, there were golf field at the back. Then we could find some stables (either clean and ruined) at just next to the field. On the other hand, in inside we found some rooms that have got different capacities.

History… yes, everything has history. (especially buildings)
But how about horse racing it self before to thingk of ‘Technology’?

Author James C. Whyte illustrated that;

‘Emigrating, as the first settlers did, from the opposite coast of Gaul, where, in common with all the other barbarian nations of the North and “West of Europe, they must have been much accustomed to the use of horses, it seems natural that, feeling early the want of them in their newly-adopted country, their immediate efforts would be directed to obtain them; and we think it far more probable that they should have brought them over on rafts, from the opposite continent, during the finest days of summer,than that they should have been imported by the Phoenicians, who frequented the island at a very early period, for the purpose of trade.

However this may be, we find on Csesar’s invasion of Great Britain, that the landing of the Roman troops was opposed by immense bodies of horsemen, besides chariots and infantry ; and as the fact is well established by the testimony of many Roman historians, we are bound to take it in preference to what is ‘advanced by Bede, who assigns the year 631, in the reign of Edwin the Great, as the earliest period at which the English began to use saddle horses.’

(Whyte James C, 1840, pp17-18)

Following this statement, horses are originally came from some serious historical event and it was more harmful thing for both human being and horses. This is I think a little bit interesting because we never get the chance to listen to what horses are thinking of. We are actully quite unique spieces for other animals but if THEY had got a chance to spell it out to us, what might they (would like to) talk to us; is that something thankful or how repulsive we are…?

*Refrence

Whyte James C (1840), HISTORY OF THE BRITISH TURF: FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY, London: Henry Colburn Publisher, Online: https://ia600306.us.archive.org/16/items/historyofbritish00whyt/historyofbritish00whyt.pdf (accessed on 2nd Feburary 2014)

Off To The Races – Initial thoughts and ideas of The Grandstand Project

On initial reaction to the task at hand I was anxious I don’t know much about the actual venue we are performing in other than it was a horse racing track and as a group we are going to view it next week but my mind is still brewing some ideas we could incorporate into our piece. The idea of it being disused and run down is actually something that interests me greatly for some reason. You could put forward the idea of it being alone. From pictures I have had a glimpse at I get the impression of something dead. A very macabre idea obviously, but from the images I have seen it seems to be a shell of what it once was.

I’m still really onto the idea of having something eerie take place here. I love the idea of ghosts, spirits or something along those lines finding this little building as a new home. Nothing says bloodcurdling and goose bump enduring quite like a horde of zombie horse jockeys scrambling towards a unwilling audience or even recreate the legend of Sleepy Hollow and have the headless horseman come to collect the souls of those foolish enough to come but of course this is coming from somebody who wouldn’t last 5 seconds watching any horror film so I digress.

Of course I am only joking as my opinion of this building could be changed completely upon going to visit the place but right now from basic media and visuals I have seen alone the only theme I can think of is along that of incorporating some element of horror or suspense. The initial idea of spirits or something dark happening is something I just can’t stop circling my mind. It’s actually exciting me to see how we can all put our ideas into this.

Again, as previously mentioned I have some ideas in my head that could be put forward but until I actually go to see the place I can’t get a real grasp for the tone of the place.

Lincoln Grandstand- First Thoughts and Poor Knowledge

I would be lying if I said I knew anything significant about the Lincoln Grandstand, because in fact I know a very poor amount, considering I have been living here for 18 months now. Pretty much all I know is that it used to be a racecourse (obviously) and now it can be used for community functions. Saying this, I clearly remember spotting the building on my first day in Lincoln, when I travelled from home to the University for the first time; instantly I found it weirdly fascinating.

Just by looking at the building, I feel like I’ve gone back in time. I can picture the amount of people who must have flocked to this venue on big race days and I find it surreal how much history radiates from this building and the surrounding areas in general. I also feel a strange sadness as I’ve passed the building before and I think this is because of the busy road that runs straight through the middle between the Grandstand and the horse fields. Before discovering that the road wasn’t much of an obstruction to the venue and it still functioned as a race course, I thought that construction of advanced and busier roads must have ruined the building and the events held there. Even so, I think the road disrupts how picturesque the building is along with the surrounding fields.

This module and the work that consists within it is extremely out of my comfort zone however I am really looking forward to exploring and working on this site. I think the scale of this site in terms of its many components are helpful for further research and advanced knowledge of the building as a whole, allowing us to discover and study several spaces of the site as well as the main seating area. I think the building in general oozes a lot of character as well as history. I think this gives our group a lot to work with and I feel this will help in our groups researching and devising highly unique professional performances.