Performance and Place (Performance Interventions)

Bringing together contributions from a range of artists, academics, curators and producers in the fields of performance, live art and film, this collection provides critical insights into notions of real and virtual, place and placelessness in contemporary works and shares thoughts and insights from contemporary art practices. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 Note on Contributors......Page 16 Part I: Mapping the Territory......Page 22 Mapping the Territory: Introduction......Page 24 1 This Must be the Place: Thoughts on Place, Placelessness and Live Art since the 1980s......Page 29 2 This Secret Location......Page 38 3 It’s Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation......Page 43 4 Out of the Furnace and into the Cyberplan......Page 55 Part II: (Dis)Placing the Senses......Page 66 (Dis)Placing the Senses: Introduction......Page 68 5 An Introduction to Vertigo......Page 73 6 Swimming in Time: Performing Programmes, Mutable Movies – Notes on a Process in Progress......Page 81 7 The Patina of Placelessness......Page 96 8 Future House, Blind City: A Life......Page 106 Part III: On Location......Page 120 On Location: Introduction......Page 122 9 Through the Wrong End of the Telescope......Page 125 10 Walking in Sin City......Page 134 11 Placed and Displaced: Trauma Memorials......Page 150 12 Where Difference Lies: Performative Metaphors of Truth, Deception and Placelessness in the Cornish Peninsula......Page 160 Part IV: Border Panic......Page 170 Border Panic: Introduction......Page 172 13 Lost in Space?: Global Placelessness and the Non-Places of Alladeen......Page 176 14 A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt the Hegemonologue......Page 191 15 Too Close for Comfort: One-to-One Performance......Page 200 16 Parallel Power: Shakespeare, Gunfire and Silence......Page 213 Part V: Theatre in a Crowded Fire......Page 228 Theatre in a Crowded Fire: Introduction......Page 230 17 Starry Night Sky......Page 234 18 Live From Paradise: A Work in Progress......Page 245 19 Hidy-Hole and Inner Sanctum......Page 255 20 The Ordering of the Fantastic: Architecture and Placein the Work of Lawrence Steger......Page 273 Index......Page 291 Featuring a mix of both practitioners and scholars, this much-needed volume explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of place. This significant and timely collection examines how we experience performance's many and varied sites as part of the fabric of the art work itself, whether they are institutional or transient, real or online. Contributors including Johannes Birringer, Laurie Beth Clark, Jennifer Parker Starbuck and Paul Heritage look at a range of case studies including a collaboration in zero gravity between choreographers and Russian cosmonauts, Shakespeare plays produced on the wasteland border between two warring favelas in Rio, the political activist performances of Billionaires for Bush, and performances that take place by remote links across cities and continents. Addressing critical issues including the relationships between site, memory, longing, identity and creativity, this volume provides Performance Studies with a core text on notions of 'place' and will be useful to students, scholars and practitioners in Performance Studies, Visual Performance/ Theatre, Live Art, Directing, and Performance and Technology, amongst others Written by both practitioners and scholars, this significant and timely collection explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of place. The volume examines how we experience performance's varied sites as part of the fabric of the art work itself, whether they are institutional or transient, real or online.