SPEAKING CORNERS
A photography, art, text and sound project conceived around the art of story telling. Principally based in and around a fixed location/building. The project envisages a structure where the led artist remains in residence acting as a base for participants to 'drop by' and develop their projects further aswell as structured contact time.
Particitants possible age range: 6 - 12
Background/ Theme: The art of story telling, of recalling events, relaying information is something we all participate in each and every day. The manner, means and methods we employ to help us communicate these ideas and stories are ones which we will develop and utilise in many ways through out our lives. They are the agents of our communication, our language both visual and verbal and are set fast in our creative abilities. 'Speaking Corners' is a project that deals directly with these issues, developes the imaginative ideas and means of expression in it's participants.
The idea for the project in general came to me from various sources, but all of which centered around the act of people telling stories. One was 'Speakers Corner' on the edge of Hyde Park, London. It was the idea that normal, everyday people are given the chance to express what ever they should choose before the watching public. The second was the sight of children whispering stories to their best friends shielding their words from others in the corridors, corners and playgrounds of every school and lastly wondering if walls could talk what would they tell us.
The envisaged installation would be located in various places within perhaps a building and employing the simple devise of a wall mounted corner box/fitting. These corner fittings will house, alittle like a chaotic living museum, a story illustrated using a varity of mediums.
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