This activity was interesting and enjoyable we had the chance to work with the community and find out a bit more about the different people who live in the area. We tried to keep our question as open ended as possible and tried not to probe people to direct there answer in any direction. This was a good activity to start us of with getting used to working with the public. Often we judge people by how they look which makes us think they will respond in a certain way, this activity shows the opposite the people you think that would respond in a negative way where the most positive and enthusiastic. This enabled us to meet and talk to new people and find out a bit about there character.
This work was inspired by Gillian Wearing who uses this method within one of her live art projects, I found her photographs very compelling and they really inspired me to create some work with similar connotations. It would be interesting to pursue this social experiment further, using different ages groups and areas to see what sort of responses I get.
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