Lismore site tasks
posted by: Deborah Pollard 23rd July 2009Locations and Tasks
Molesworth Street
Location 1-Town Hall and two other mystery locations
Story telling, oral history. Photography
Kristy please take your partner to three locations in walking/biking distance that you have a memory of. Start with the town hall. Tell a story in each space.
Partner please listen intently to the stories so you can recount them to others.
Take a tourist shot of each other in each of the locations. Feel free to interpret these tasks in your own way.
Location 2: Identity of a city
Station Hotel- Corner of Union and Casino
Medium: Pen, Paper, mobile phone video
Look at the exterior of the club for around 2 minutes.
Enter the club and find a rendezvous spot.
For 40 minutes observe the activity in the club. It is up to you how you do this.
Order a drink, silently observe, talk to the bartender, talk to the customers if any or just observe. After around 40 minutes write for "" minutes without punctuation in response to your observations. Write without judgement. Read your responses to each-other
Location 3: Identity of a city
Transit stop. Molesworth Street
Medium: Vox pops, oral history
Sit and observe this space for 10 minutes in silence. For the next 30 minutes try and have a conversation with people sitting and waiting. If this is not possible try and observe particular people in detail and create their fictional story.
Meet with your partner in a nearby cafe and tell each other about your conversations or observations. Find a way to remember it all so you can retell others later.
Location 4: Identity of a city
Lismore Bridal-45 Molesworth St, Lismore
Medium: observation and story telling
You will be meeting with Michael Gates who owns Bridal Lismore
Ask him questions that get him talking about the history of his shop and his own history. Find your favourite gown and look at it in the finest detail.
After your visit go to a nearby café and talk and write about the gown and the stories you have heard.
Location 5: Identity of a city
Take a walk along “The Block” and the alleys, malls that run through the centre. (See map). The block is Magellan, Molesworth, Woodlark, Lockett,
Medium: Dictaphones
Each one take a sound device. Walk the length of the block on either side continuously recording and narrating what you see. Sometimes rendezvous and split up again. On your journey choose three places where you can stop and just observe or explore in more detail. At these moments you can choose to stop narrating if you wish. Journey should last for 30 minutes
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