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Ciera Skinner and Bethan Williams are now friends 4 days, 4 hours ago
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, The Untold lives of Lincoln’s Jewish Community, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

Looking further into one of our initial site ideas I uncovered an entire history of the 12th Century Jewish community.

Main sites in Lincoln include:

The Cathedral

Jew’s House

Jew’s Court

The […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, ‘Influences found there’, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

The Uniqueness of places:

After some further reading I have become very interested in using a place for it’s personal and unique meanings that are not drawn from local histories or myths. D. Massey said that a […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Can we use Lavery’s Instructions?, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

Many of Lavery’s 25 Instructions initially look as if they could be very effective in a performance. I have personally selected 1 that I think we could use based around our initial thoughts on performance. It […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Durational performance, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

‘Durational performance is a form through which TIME is manifested in its original (natural) purity and brought to the forefront as pivotal to the experience. The performance is designed so that time, as the […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, 5 actions in the Chapel, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

Whilst in Chad Varah on Wednesday we spoke to Sally Myers and got all the permission needed for the seemly sensitive location of the Chapel. Scott and I are in the Chapel for the sites, Medieval Church and the […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Five Actions, Five Senses, Five Signs of Life, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

Each of our actions now fits with one of the senses – touch, taste, sight, sound and smell. My focus will now be on Medieval Community and the ways of Monks rather than just the medieval church. This in itself is […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Site Specific Music, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

In order to create my own piece of Site Specific music for my performance, I wanted first to look into site specific music itself. I found a website that allowed me to listen to an hour long podcast that was made […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Group proposal, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 6 days, 9 hours ago

Name
Ciera SkinnerScott McGinnAlex Watson

Mohammed Rangwalla

Bethan Williams

Email
Ssp-fivesignsoflife@hotmail.co.uk

Contact Phone No.
SM- 07531353928CS- 07983056334AW- […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, ‘Five Signs of Life’, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 1 week ago

After researching our site in more depth we discovered that the site has had 5 previous uses; A church, a hospital, an Inn, theological college and a University building (not in chronological order).

There is 5 […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Gregorian Chants – Writing my own, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 1 week ago

After Monday’s session at Chad Varah my ideas changed slightly. I am now to complete only one of the activities previously stated. I am to keep Gregorian chanting. I had a great example of the sheet music for a g […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Getting lost in Lincoln…, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 1 week ago

Our session on Monday consisted of walking to a random point in Lincoln and following directions till we got lost.

Looking at the history of Chad Varah House (a place we came across after following our random […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Post-Performance…, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 1 week ago

Our performance, although a group one, predominantly worked around individual performances an participation in rehearsal, each of us with our own narrative. During the performance I found my performance question […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, My Gregorian Chant Notation, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 3 weeks, 4 days ago

After initially composing my piece in modern notation I have translated it to the style of Gregorian chant. This is the version without the lyrics:

This is obviously not as complicated as the original […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Where in the building is the best space for my Gregorian Chant?, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 4 weeks, 1 day ago

After completing the first of my performance questions, ‘Can I write a site specific Gregorian Chant?’ I have decided to make my performance mobile and roam the corridors for the duration, with the new question, […]
Ciera Skinner wrote a new post, Composing my site specific music…, on the site Ciera Skinner Site Specific Performance Blog 1 month ago

As Gregorian chants are sung by Monks and I am essentially taking on the role of a monk in a sense during my performance, when writing my lyrics I kept this in mind.

I’ve written both an English […]
Ciera Skinner and Mo Rangwalla are now friends 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ciera Skinner and Alexander Watson are now friends 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ciera Skinner and Scott Patrick Mcginn are now friends 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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