This audio clip includes the users of Priory Park's responses to the individual interviews.
Their wants.
Their preferences.
Their needs.
Their memories.
Their knowledge of the place.
'The voice of Priory Park' will be played outloud on a speaker during 'ParkArt' so the participants of 'ParkArt' can experience others memories and views of the park.
Preparing 'ParkArt'
And the preparation week has come.
Coming to a collective decision we decided to create an interactive art installation, an installation that could get the community together - that would gather the Priory Park community together.
We aim to feed the 'Priory Park' community's needs and wants.
We aim to create an event-like installation that will create entertainment and will give the rest of the park users something else to observe.
Our aim is to create a mural on the mound.
To create an image of the mound, on the mound.
The Hidden Traces, together, aim to give the public the ownership of the art, of their own art.
'ParkArt' (our interactive art installation) aims to allow the users of the park to express themselves through creating a mural out of objects that were also representative of what they wanted.
Wooden Cutlery to represent the Cafe,
CD's to represent music,
Flowers to make the park less 'dreary looking',
Lollipop Sticks for an ice-cream stand and the act itself, the creating of the mural, was an event in itself,
giving the users of Priory Park some entertainment and something else to do.
In the aim to contact the public and inform them of 'ParkArt' I created a fyer.
To the left is the 'ParkArt' flyer.
Having, now created the flyers, myself an Holly Scott, journeyed around Chichester to the nearest Cafes and small and/or charitable businesses.
These photographs show the process of the flyer distrubtuion. Stopping at local pubs, local cafes and local charities.
Above is the 'BluePrint' created for the public. It is a template that the public can use.
We, indeed, did come across as the 'authority' within the space.
Our choice of costume:
'Staff' lanyards from the University of Chichester.
"Only those with authority in the first place are in positions to delegate; that is, the act of delegating is in itself an act of authority." (Kwon, 2002: 118)
We wore lanyards to make it apparent that we were the organises and curators of 'ParkArt'.