why this matters 2.0
WHY THIS MATTERS 2.0 was a digital installation of the live sharing WHY THIS MATTERS and was showcased as part of the Graduate School Showcase (GSS) at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. The installation combined film and photography to document the live sharing and form a call to action in relation to the closure of Greenwich Dance and the funding cuts to community dance in the UK.
The purpose of this installation was to spread the message to a wider public audience, but also as a form of record for the participants and to see the work that they had done.
WHY THIS MATTERS 2.0
The installation ran in 20 minute cycles across the space of a day and invited a small audience of maximum 10 into the space at any one time. The space was divided so the audience could not see the whole room. The audience were guided as a group through the space on the same journey experienced by the audience in the live sharing, just in a digital format.
The audience were invited to respond to their experience of the sharing in a space filled with the previous audience’s responses to the same questions. This created a connection between the first audience and this one, all adding to the change that needs to be seen in relation to funding cuts to community dance in the UK.
