week six

Week Six Task:

• Consider the concept of the weathered body in your site. Does it enable/inhibit extreme physical conditioning?
• What are some extreme physical exertions that are related to your current site? How was it built/cleared/constructed?
• What modes of performance training/preparation might be enabled/suited to the particulars of your site/space?

The site itself doesn’t have anything to do with physical exertion but the trip to get the sight certainly doesn’t. You need to have strength- mental and physical to get to the flat. You can not expect to get there without a bit of sweat and muscle burning unless you are extremely fit. The circuit itself is about 5.4 k. to get to it you obviously don’t have to walk all of this, you can enter the circuit at other points. But the shortest distance between an entrance and the flat is to climb up the ladder, a series of very steep concrete, uneven steps to get there.

The physical component of getting to this site is completely unavoidable unless you want to fly in by helicopter. The tracks were probably made around the same as all the others around the gorge were, in the 1800s for the elite to stroll along. This track is not exactly strolling stuff so it’s a possibility that it was made for the men to train/ exercise on because e of course women wouldn’t have been seen physically exerting themselves in public back then. What I love about the tracks is that they haven’t just been dug out with machinery or made with concrete, they are rocky, muddy and natural because they are simply maintained by peoples footsteps and use of them.