Conversations

Claire Prosser

Audio edits taken from conversations with Boscombe Community about how they experience, observe and describe a place they live and breathe everyday.

  • 4 minutes 58 seconds
    Chasing Sputnik- Quay Arts

    Meeting the Moon is a spoken word sound piece responding to the theme of the Chasing Sputnik exhibition at Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight. A human being is trying to hold a conversation with something so unfathomably extra terrestrial. The delayed echo draws attention to the distance, we are so far apart but long to know more about the world beyond the ground we stand on.

    13 November 2014, 8:33 pm
  • 2 minutes 44 seconds
    Relevant information- Royal Arcade Man - 2 mins 45 secs
    An excerpt from a series of conversations had with local residents of Boscombe. How do people experience a place, what is relevant to them, what memories are held and how do they affect our present experience?
    13 November 2014, 7:51 pm
  • 1 minute 50 seconds
    Claire - Vita Nova Writing workshop (1min50secs)
    Instruction 1 : Describe a familiar journey.

    Instruction 2: Over describe part of that journey.

    20 April 2014, 7:50 pm
  • 51 seconds
    Lamp-post (51secs)
    In this podcast, Barbara tries to explain how she knows that the lampost is there. How would you intepret your surroundings while relying on your other four senses?l
    20 April 2014, 7:46 pm
  • 1 minute 9 seconds
    Bus journey (1min 9 secs)

    In this podcast Claire and Barbara are talking on the bus. Barbara, although completely blind, is evidently more observant than Claire.

    20 April 2014, 7:43 pm
  • 55 seconds
    Cutting Across the Precinct (55secs)
    In this podcast, there are three in the conversation. It makes you think about the ease and difficulty of movement for different people within the same space. Boscombe Precinct can be a death trap. 
    18 April 2014, 9:45 pm
  • 1 minute 46 seconds
    Stop and listen to Boscombe Sovereign Centre

    Audio edits taken from conversations with local residents of Boscombe to see how they move, observe and sense a space through action and memory. 

    In this podcast Barbara encourages me to close my eyes and take in the Sovereign Centre through my sense of hearing. 
    15 April 2014, 9:13 pm
  • 7 minutes 46 seconds
    Landmarking the Precinct

    Audio edits taken from conversations with local residents of Boscombe to see how they move, observe and sense a space through action and memory. 

    This conversation identifies how Barbara landmarks her way through the busy Precinct
    15 April 2014, 9:09 pm
  • 52 seconds
    Drains used as Landmarks

    Audio edits taken from conversations with local residents of Boscombe to see how they move, observe and sense a space through action and memory. 

    This is a conversation with Barbara about how drains help her to perceive and be aware of her movement/direction.
    14 April 2014, 10:44 pm
  • 6 minutes 38 seconds
    Clothes Shopping

    Audio edits taken from conversations with local residents of Boscombe to see how they move, observe and sense a space through action and memory. 

    This is a conversation with Barbara about how she perceives  and decides what she likes and doesn't like while clothes shopping 
    14 April 2014, 10:42 pm
  • 1 minute 16 seconds
    Colour
    Audio edits taken from conversations with local residents of Boscombe to see how they move, observe and sense a space through action and memory. This is a conversation with Barbara about how she perceives colour. 
    9 April 2014, 10:40 pm
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