{"id":1456,"date":"2016-11-23T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehaveasituation.net\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T12:40:01","slug":"drawing-us-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehaveasituation.net\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Drawing us together …"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we near the end of the workshop process for the Coventry situation<\/a>, we’re huddled in little clusters around the Shop Front Theatre space – writing stories, making digital media, working with UpStage’s avatar voices, running audio and ethernet cables. Over the past week we’ve had a lot of fascinating discussions about the situation as well as about the process, we’ve interviewed locals and walked around the nearby area, and – as usual! – have ammassed more material than we can fit into the performance; and so the distillation and decision process must happen!<\/p>\n

In the midst of the tumultous activity and discussions, participant Michelle Engelfield has been quietly drawing away in UpStage, learning how to use a drawing tablet and familiarising herself with the UpStage environment and drawing tools. Live drawing is a great element within UpStage, allowing visual improvisation to complement other elements or stand on its own. Michelle’s drawings – some similar to the one pictured here – will feature in the performance tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n

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Another participant is journalism student Savannah Sengooba; we’re calling her role in the performance, “audience activator” – she will invite the proximal audience in the Shop Front Theatre to co-author elements of the performance. Another audience engagement role is that of “chatter”, to facilitate engagement with the online audience; this will be fulfilled by Lauren Heywood, who is part of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab. This role will help to ensure that contributions from online audience participants are well-integrated into the performance and discussion.<\/p>\n

There are many other participants in this process – including staff members, local residents, and students from departments including Photography, Fine Arts, Journalism and Creative Writing. Having “embedded researchers” has brought a reflective element to the process; and at the end of next week we’ll present it at the In Dialogue<\/a> conference in Nottingham.<\/p>\n

Savannah has blogged about the project here<\/a>, and we have a a great write-up in Coventry Today<\/a>. Now, we have the final preparations to make, to draw together all the strands of our performance and be ready for tomorrow evening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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