PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE

SOURCE

Two photographs embedded in the workshop protocol record a questionnaire used on Day 1.

The questionnaire could be applied to:

• a current work;
• a project;
• a thesis;
• a personal or political practice.

Do not include participant answers.

AIMS

• What would I like to achieve in this work?
• Is there a specific who?
• Why this who?
• How will I present the experience?
• Can movement alone transport the experience?
• Is it necessary to place it on a stage?

WHAT

What does the proposed world:

• sound like?
• look like?
• smell like?
• feel like?

WHERE

Possible examples written on the sheet include:

• a church;
• a meeting hall;
• a club;
• the block;
• a memory.

WHY

Possible functions include:

• to gather;
• to mourn;
• to celebrate;
• to be;
• to socialise.

WHEN

Possible temporal positions include:

• the past;
• the present;
• the future;
• late at night;
• early in the day.

WHO

Who inhabits or receives the work?

HOW

Through what form, practice, action or medium is it constructed?

TEMPERATURE / TONE

What is the work’s:

• temperature?
• tone?
• atmosphere?
• pressure?

BACKGROUND

• Why is the topic relevant to me?
• Is it relevant to others?
• To whom?
• Why?
• When might it not be relevant?
• In which field does the project operate or serve?

QUESTION

• What exactly do I want to do?
• From which questions or assumptions do I depart?
• What would I like to discover?

REFERENCES & METHODOLOGY

• Which information or materials are needed?
• How will I reach or gather them?
• What tools might the public need to decipher the work?
• Should those tools be supplied?
• What is the intended function of the work?

FUNCTION

The questionnaire connects:

• artistic intention;
• context;
• sensory world;
• audience;
• methodology;
• political position;
• presentation.

It does not prescribe the answers.