Postcard-maps

 

A map is a practical tool for everyone, used every day for work or leisure and that has as principal function to guide us in a known or unknown place, so we can find our way or our interest. There are different maps with several functions, for example a military map will be printed on a tissue and will have level lines so the professionals that wish to find a specific place in a terrain can find easily how to identify it and preserve the map even in adverse climate situations without destroying it, a free touristic map will be simpler, in paper and probably will endure only for a short period of time. According to the specific aim the map will have signalized the places of interest.

 

In Tate Modern Museum there is a map available to the public with infomation about the current exhibitions and their location. It gives the public a sense of knowing where to go, a comfort given by a compass that guides.

 

In this performance one of the aims is to allow the public to feel comfort, to share the same space of the performance knowing where to go. The postcard-maps have three different functions:

 

-        Locating the performance in time and space;

-        Give an insight of a museum environment;

-        Allow the viewer to experience one of the practices of the artist; the act of sending a postcard in which they could write/draw their feedback of the performance work.

 

Considering that there were viewers who replied and those who did not, and even those who opted for writing personal things (not related to the performance), the fourth function – a way of document the performance work – was discarted.

 

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