Our last performance in lesson, we decided to strip back. We decided to show the process of turning an apple into apple juice (it’s not obvious but I guess that transition is showing science) We sat in a line and began the performance by each in turn eating an apple in synchronization. The feedback we got from this and what we really liked was the silence albeit the simple crunch of eating an apple. Then each performer took it in turn to pass down an apple and each performer (slices/chops/mashes) the apple to turn it into apple juice. We were hoping to achieve an almost factory manufacturing line. Once the process was completed we decided to show a video of a decaying apple, this idea of showing the live and the mediated comes from Phillip Auslander’s book Liveness, Performance in a Mediated Culture. ‘ In all forms of society, there is one specific kind of production which predominates over the rest, whose relations thus assign rank and influence to the  others.’ (2008, p, 1)  We used this to show an apple decaying/being dissected in too ways both live and mediated, it was then the idea to show the ‘rebirth’ of an apple by then using the apple in more visually exciting and innovative ideas. However by doing the latter we introduced elements of acting which is not what site specific performance is about, we need to make the piece real by doing rather than pretending.  Evan Eisenberg mentions a similar situation is the music industry, in regards to recording music rather than playing it live. ‘Stereo… arrays the musicians before you in an empty space… The introduction of stereo… changed the phenomenology of the phonograph by adding a spacial and visual aspect.’ (Auslander, 2008, p, 85)  Eisenberg’s point here is that when sound is divorced of the visual through mediation, the experience craves/creates a visual. In other words, if we act and perform as characters in our performance, we are cheating our audience out of  another visually stimulating experience. In order the produce a sucessful performance we must do and not act.