We got to visit our site this week! It was so amazing to see and envisage our ideas in the space. Different ideas that we have been working on over the past weeks are finally being put into practice. The shop we chose is full of mirrors, and is ideal for the type of performance art we want to create, linking in with the science of reflection.  A particular thing that stood out for us as a group in the shop was the use of the windows. In our performance, we want the windows to be blacked out to stop light escaping inside. Therefore, we will have to work extra hard with the shoppers as they will not be able to see inside. Making it really  eye-catching for passers-by is imperative to make them stop and hopefully to want to come into the shop and explore more.

It then got me thinking about the passerby themselves. They are looking into this shop window, wondering about what they might purchase or what is aesthetically pleasing. ‘The ordinary practitioners of the city…they walk-an elementary form of experience of the city; they are walkers’ (D. J Hopkins et al, 2009, 59). Normal shoppers on a day to day basis pass throughout the city, through the monotony of life and yet are participants in a performance which they are completely unaware of; of merely walking. It therefore makes our job more interesting as knowing performers in the window to try and create a new and engaging performance with our audience.