A Unique Incite into Bristol as it Exists Today

On May 7th 2011, from 9am to 8pm, ten performers will be placed in ten different spots across the city of Bristol to incessantly describe everything they see and hear; this incessant description, recited like a prayer, is individually recorded by each performer to create a 45minute long audio archive, collectively called Prayers.

The recited descriptions are as much of people, situations, attitudes, events, as of buildings, structure, itineraries, activities, routines, objects, atmospheres, circumstances, sounds, smells, including also the impressions, deductions, and intuitions of the describing or narrating subject. The audio tracks created by the performers may then be heard and downloaded for free from Dora García’s website, giving the listener an unique incite and snapshot of the city as it exists today.

The ten locations that each “prayer” will be recorded are the M32 underpass (Lower Ashlet Road/Easton Way), North Street (Bedminster), on a ferry boat in the Floating Harbour, in Cabot Circus, St Pauls, St Werburghs, The Downs, inside The Canteen on Stokes Croft, aboard bus route 36 to Withywood and finally on Park Street.