As of today it is less than one week t’ill the performance day. Do I feel ready? Of course I don’t. I feel like all we have still is just ideas and nothing concrete. The problem is due to the style of our performance, I don’t think we’ll ever actually feel have anything t’ill Saturday. It’s going to be more like an on the day thing. I feel like this is how big companies would deal with hosting market research too though. I can’t imagine them to have much of a ‘trail run’, it’s just market research.

We have everything sorted. Videos, banners, products, all we need now are the people. The only problem I’m having at the moment is wrapping my head around the idea that this is a performance. We are not allowed to act. We have been told that for site performance we still have to play ourselves, yet.. I don’t see Jake Allsop, the 20 year old drama student, being the chief executive of Human.Inc. There are missing links in what we are doing and I’m finding it difficult to accept it, and if the people in the performance are finding it hard, I’m sure the audience will too.

Mike Pearson wrote once some exercises related to site, in which he asked questions such as “What would you have remembered had you gone there without a camera?”, “Write a text of 50 words describing one location you particularly remember” and “Make a visual representation/draw it”. These kind of exercises are solely looking at the idea of site, whereas due to the fact we’ve been taken out of our site, and we’re not doing something based on the shop we saw, I feel the performance for the audience will be too jarring and they may be left questioning what the point was. It all feels too safe. We’re mimicking what a real life company would do, it doesn’t feel like Site Specific performance, it feels like a business simulation.

Nevertheless in terms of what we have been told to do, we’ve made progress. I feel we have matched was was asked of us by the lecturers and in that singular respect I feel we have done well.