week 5

Week Five Task:

• Reflect on the nature of tourist traffic through/in/around your chosen site. How does the history of your site affect various modes of a visitor 'reading' it?
• How do you anticipate audiences will engage with your work based on the sites past/current/future civic use and purpose?
• Can your work accommodate the accidental visitor and the visitor who arrives specifically to engage with your work?

Well the week five task has pretty much already been answered by past descriptions of my chosen place. Because the flat is at the top of the hardest art of the track, 99% of the tourists that wonder onto the looped track on either side turn back before they get to the flat because of the intense climb on either side. The only people that go anywhere near this flat are people that are purposely exercising. The place doesn’t really have a history that is different from what it is now. Its one of the beautiful places that hasn’t been changed by humans all that much. The only change is maybe the adding of paths and the marks people leave by walking. I think the audience would probably best engage with the place through silence. Through being quiet they will be able to connect with the natural place through the sounds of the wind in the trees, the birds, the animals moving in the bushes and all of the other beautiful things that are associated with a place like this that hasn’t been overtaken by humans. The only accidental visitors to a work in this site would be those using the area for exercise. Because the place is hard to access, this will also deter a lot of people, minimising the audience to able bodied people with no aversion to exercise and sweat. Through the location it makes the audience a selective type of person and it would be good to make the work cater to this type of in dividual by making it something physically and mentally challenging.