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For my space, I wanted to choose something relative to the fact that we are in Italy and are constantly observing and experiencing a culture very different from our own. I decided on a small bar that is near the school, called The Joshua Tree Pub. We had gone there a few nights ago, and I loved the fact that it was a small, unknown bar, packed with Italian locals, and blasting great music (mostly Italian music that I’ve never heard). I LOVE THIS PLACE.
Upon revisiting it twice – once during the night, and the next time during the day – I gathered more information. During the night, I talked with the bartender, basically just introducing myself so that he wouldn’t be weirded out by me taking pictures and stuff. He was laughing a little, either because he thought it was stupid I was asking him if it would be alright to take pictures, or because he thought it was bizarre I was doing a project on this very small Italian bar that Americans don’t really come to.
Some major themes I was thinking about: WALLS (paint peeling away, DESTRUCTION, wear and tear, history of a place, TIME), the PEOPLE (locals, American tourists, personalities, people’s stories, what they think about Italy -- > LANGUAGE, change (day vs. night, TRANSFORMATION of a place), what people do in the bar (listen to the MUSIC, drinking, changing of states of being, alcohol ALTERING people, conversation, revelations), MAPPING (peoples average nights, where they go in the pub/city, change of soberness, who comes to the bar what nights, trends), the pub as a SPACE (part of the building – the space existed before the actual pub? people live upstairs...)
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