HOUSE OF PERFORMANCE 1

Site study

Wednesbury, United Kingdom.

Site located in Black country region of England with Industrial background was assigned for project to explore the rituals in public environment. I started with Mapping the pattern of human movement in market to understand concentration points, destination and origin of visitors path with the help of Rudolf Laban’s kinetographic technique. (Refer map on left) With this method we can speculate the activities done by person between their stops. The adjacent map shows the observed walking path of visitors during market hours on Friday.

Taking the inspiration from Emma Filippieds’ site writing document ‘The windowless hotel room’, I started documenting my experience through the conversations happened between me and people in Wednesbury market and added the third character ‘market’ itself. Reaction of physical space based on our actions and words can be interesting to understand the amalgamation of people and architecture of market.

Journey towards site