On the 9th October 2007, London based art collective \u2018The People Speak<\/a>\u2018 conducted a radical experiment in live entertainment. \u2018Who Wants to Be?\u2019 mixed democratic decision-making, interactive animation and improvisation into a dangerously spontaneous game show.<\/p>\n Video on Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n Using a computer vision voting system designed for use by hoards of rowdy people, the audience at the Albany Theatre in Deptford decided that what they really wanted to do, after all was buy a piece of woodland together!<\/p>\n The second half was spent coming up with ideas for what that could be. The suggestion that we should buy and share an animal turned into a real controversy, with some saying it would be cruel to keep moving any animal – \u2018even a goldfish\u2019 between 100 people.<\/p>\n Eventually, the animal idea was vetoed, and instead, someone proposed that we buy a nice bike and a digital camera, and then using Google calendar and other online tools, plot a relay route between all of the audiences homes, and document a massive relay cycle with photos and blog postings.<\/p>\n Then someone suggested land: after discussions about a dodgy-sounding timeshare in Spain and a squatted old boat in Deptford Creek, the audience fixated on the idea of buying a woodland together. The final vote was between buying a woodland, the bike and camera blog, and doing some guerilla gardening<\/a> together.<\/p>\n This time, the woodland won by a comfortable majority, so everyone\u2019s names and emails were collected, and the practical and legal challenges of buying a woodland for an entire audience began!<\/p>\n Eventually, we discovered that woodlands are really expensive because of legal work, and that you can\u2019t just buy one – they need looking after. Then we found a fantastic company called Woods for All<\/a> which enabled us to buy shared ownership in the woodland for the audience – while actually doing something good for the environment by making sure the wood is looked after.<\/p>\n Each audience member was allowed to choose a share in either Taldrum Wood in South Wales, or Spring Wood in Devon – both spectacularly beautiful woodlands.<\/p>\n Only 13 months later – a deed of ownership arrived in the mail! Many thanks are due to Gary Moore from Woods for All for making it happen. Here\u2019s a scan of ours:<\/p>\n The Deed to Tenner Woods<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The People speak gameshow is uploaded to the Deptford.TV database. How to Buy a Woodland (Albany Theatre) October 9, 2007 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm On the 9th October 2007, London based art collective \u2018The People Speak\u2018 conducted a radical experiment in live entertainment. \u2018Who Wants to Be?\u2019 mixed democratic decision-making, interactive animation and improvisation…Read more Who Wants To Be? at The Albany, Deptford, Tuesday 9 October<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"dsc_0005.JPG\"](\"http:\/\/whowantstobe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0005.thumbnail.JPG\")
<\/a>An excited crowd gathered at the Albany Theatre, where they were wowed by the whirling crystal ball of money, which sat, enticingly at the front of the auditorium. By the end of the first 45 minutes, the audience had decided to use the \u00a31000 to buy something that could be shared by everyone who had put their money in the hat.<\/p>\n![\"voting](\"http:\/\/whowantstobe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/dsc_0091.thumbnail.JPG\")
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