So this is what happened....
- Rachel was given her own set of instructions, like the other guests, next to her picture. She was told to sit on the wheely chair and wait till further instructions. While she did so she was asked to look into the mirror and contemplate what she saw.
- After she was left on her own, as the remaining guests were led out of the 'foyer', Rachel was given another card of instructions, telling her to accept the ipod given to her by me, put on the headphones and listen.
- She was played a recording, similar to the Language sections, about an individual's use of Facebook
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- After this she was given another note, telling her she was about to be taken on a journey, to be aware of all her senses and experiences around her. And to close her eyes, as she was blindfolded.
- Taking the ipod off her, I replaced it with a booklet, which she would not be abe to read until she was right out of the performance space and free to go.
- I then took her around the space by wheels, taking her to each of the squares to experience a different sensory experience:
* The feeling of a breeze from the normal section, using the abundance of paper to waft
* The sound of rhythms, banging, laughter etc from the language section
* The smell of coffee & wine and the feeling of warmth and light from a friendly group photo taken in the date section
* The taste of salt (cruel suggestion, the culprit shall remain annonymous but was an representative for the taste of sweat) from the labelling section
* The crashing rhythms of ritual
- This continued until she was wheeled right back outside the space and released into the real world. She was allowed to take with her photo from the date square (polaroid) and her booklet, a printed off Facebook conversation from over a year a ago, but she was refused re-entry in the space to look around despite a pleading request....
And that's cybersquare!
