Our first sweep took place in studio 2 as planned. We mapped out the 4×3 space and made it into a grid. We did 3 different sweeps, one where we drew around body parts, this put into context for us how crammed and condensed the bodies must have been to fit into the space. The second grid we wrote things about ourselves, where we lived, our parents names, where we live and have lived before ect. instead of seeing what we could find within the grid like a normal forensic sweep, we instead contaminated it with information about ourselves. The third time we drew out the grid we wrote information about our process, the key facts and figures such as 67 bodies, 37 Monks Road ect.

In the studio we set the lights to see what it was like in terms of a performance space. I like the idea of havng the footage recorded today playing at the same time as we map out the grid ourselves live.

The images below show the lighting and atmosphere we created in Studio 2.

Our second sweep took place on Monks Road, as you can see from the images above.

We positioned our camera facing number 37 and repeated the 4×3 grid as normal this time however, we got members of the public to write things about themselves, what they were doing, where they were going, their names and how they were feeling and we wrote key data about our performance in there too combining 2 of the grids performed in studio 2. We were dressed in our suits and full forensic gear for both of these sweeps.

In both sweeps we filmed from different angles creating different perspectives.

Our third sweep took place on west common. This time instead of contaminating the grids with our traces, we searched for other peoples traces. Our findings will be displayed in our live writing from the sweep, and in the grid we plan to fill with research.

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