Half-term filming
Mackey was keen to take the ‘disruption of the everyday’ into the participants’ everyday
environments, beyond the Half Moon theatre space and its close environs. If the research was
enquiring into young people’s response to urban space and how to rethink this, their places
in more familiar ‘urban spaces’ needed to be considered. Filming took place over the summer
half term break with three of the participants. We had discussed the use of objects as a means
to re-viewing place in Planning 5 (listen below).
(See, too, Object Perspective) where further
exercises were undertaken with ‘anthropomorphic’ objects as a way of re-thinking the dwelling
and inhabitation of locations.)
In this clip,
Half Term Filming, two of the girls engaged with everyday activities (eating cereal and tying
a tie) at home and at a bus stop. The boy undertakes two activities (homework and using a
remote control) in unexpected places also. Much of this film was projected in the final show.
It is something that the young people in the group responded to instantly with spontaneous
laughter at upsetting conventional forms of behaviour in places.