Field works: Wild experiments for performance research
My new article about our performance field work at rewilding sites has just been published. Read it at Studies in Theatre and Performance.See More
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Seeking the Sea: Performance in a Pandemic
An article I had published earlier this year opens with the line “Performance as an art form is live, ephemeral, and of the moment” (Cultural Geographies, April 2020). Are these words still relevant in the context of this global pandemic?As a performance-researcher I am keen to examine the way in which contemporary performance-making responds to social, political, ecological and cultural events. I have previously written about the flurry of creative activity which was provoked by the Scottish…See More
Change and repair: Trixxy walking, place-stories and recovery in a time of virus, by Helen Billinghurst & Phil Smith
Over the last two years we have been investigating an inexorable web of entanglement between story and place that has emerged during creative research projects. In the following essay we will recount how our experiences working on two such projects during the time of Covid have informed our understanding of the nature of this entanglement and reflect on their significance…See More
Living (in) Precarity
My name’s Sarah, I am 32 years old, and I am in companionship with pain . . . I am trying to listen to you.To get to know your qualities, character and atmosphere.To mark you.Honour you.To see what you have to say.And let you take centre stage. I have lived with chronic back and neurological pain for over 18 years. Until recently I viewed my pain solely as a barrier to my…See More
Notes towards becoming beaver by Jamie Lorimer. Bamff Estate, Perthshire
We gathered in Bamff in March to continue our wild experiments in the company of beavers and their terraqueous (or land and water) landscapes. Our primary aim was to develop a creative swimming methodology to address the following questions:How do beavers sense and inhabit their watery environment?How can wild swimming facilitate a creative engagement with non-human…See More
New book: The Wild Ways of the Oak
Jamie Lorimer has just published The Wild Ways of the Oak, a collaboration with Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley, which was first developed at our Performing Wild Geographies workshop at Knepp Wildland Project.An edition of 60 copies were letterpress printed by Richard Lawrence, and the PDF is available here.…See More
The Six Wild Ways of the Oak
An audio essay by Jamie Lorimer, Sofie Narbed, David Overend, Jenny Swingler and Scott Twynholm. Written at Knepp Wildland Project in West Sussex.The Six Wild Ways of the Oak is a creative response to the wild ways of Knepp Castle Estate, focussing on the different topologies through which we might conceive of the oak.This project was funded as part of Jamie Lorimer’s British Academy Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Thanks to Penny Green, Tom Forward, Rina Quinlan and all the staff at…See More
Lewis Hetherington swims with beavers
Days before the lockdown began, we made it back to Bamff Estate in Perthshire - the site of Scotland's first reintroduced beavers. Moving on from our usual walking methods, we donned neoprene and attempted some creative swimming experiments. While our usual writing and research is curtailed, here are some images and a couple of short texts from Lewis Hetherington. Also see Laura Bissell's 'Landscaping with beavers' just published in…See More
New article
Laura Bissell's 'Tidal spaces: choreographies of remembrance and forgetting', just published in Cultural Geographies:This article explores the potential of tidal spaces to perform acts of remembrance and forgetting. Using oceanographer Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea to contextualise tidal spaces, this analysis will discuss how constantly shifting and eroding coastlines act as a site…See More
Book review
Read my review of Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink’s Nomadic Theatre: Mobilising Theory and Practice on the European Stage, just published at Contemporary Theatre Review.See More
The bones beneath the streets: drifting through London’s Quaternary
Our new article about a drift through London's Quaternary history has just been published, which I have co-written with Jamie Lorimer (Oxford) and Danielle Schreve (Royal Holloway):'The bones beneath the streets: drifting through London’s Quaternary' is now available at Cultural Geographies.See More
New publications
A couple of journeying publications this month:My article 'Rantin and Raving: Kieran Hurley's Aesthetic Communities' is available at Contemporary Theatre Review, accompanied by a filmed interview with Kieran Hurley for the journal’s online Interventions section;and my Study…See More
The Gift in the Beaver
Figure 1: A beaver on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, Scotland. Gift giving may be the most basic form of exchange, though hardly simple. In our hearts, we like to imagine that gifts are given with “no strings attached.” Of course, this is rarely the case. Instead, gift exchange is weighted by complex, rarely articulated social expectations.…See More
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Seeking the Sea: Performance in a Pandemic
Posted by Laura Bissell on January 12, 2021 at 10:10 0 Comments 0 Likes
An article I had published earlier this year opens with the line “Performance as an art form is live, ephemeral, and of the moment” (Cultural Geographies, April 2020). Are these words still relevant in the context of this global pandemic?
As a performance-researcher I am keen to examine the way in which contemporary performance-making responds to social, political, ecological and cultural events. I have previously written about the flurry of creative activity which was…
ContinueChange and repair: Trixxy walking, place-stories and recovery in a time of virus, by Helen Billinghurst & Phil Smith
Posted by David Overend on December 21, 2020 at 10:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Over the last two years we have been investigating an inexorable web of entanglement between story and place that has emerged during creative research projects. In the following essay we will recount how our experiences working on two such projects during the time of Covid have informed our understanding of the nature of this entanglement and…
ContinueLiving (in) Precarity
Posted by Sarah Hopfinger on December 16, 2020 at 16:12 0 Comments 0 Likes
My name’s Sarah, I am 32 years old, and I am in companionship with pain . . .
I am trying to listen to you.
To get to know your qualities, character and atmosphere.
To mark you.
Honour you.
To see what you have to say.
And let…
ContinueLewis Hetherington swims with beavers
Posted by David Overend on June 17, 2020 at 15:02 0 Comments 0 Likes
Days before the lockdown began, we made it back to Bamff Estate in Perthshire - the site of Scotland's first reintroduced beavers. Moving on from our usual walking methods, we donned neoprene and attempted some creative swimming experiments. While our usual writing and research is curtailed, here are some images and a couple of short texts from Lewis Hetherington.
Also see Laura Bissell's 'Landscaping with beavers' just published in…
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Field works: Wild experiments for performance research
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My new article about our performance field work at rewilding sites has just been published. Read it at…Continue
New book: The Wild Ways of the Oak
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Jamie Lorimer has just published The Wild Ways of the Oak, a collaboration with Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley, which was first developed at our Performing Wild Geographies workshop at Knepp Wildland…Continue
New article: Landscaping with beavers
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Laura Bissell's 'Landscaping with beavers' just published in…Continue
New article: Water matters
Started by David Overend Jun 12, 2020. 0 Replies 0 Likes
"Water matters: TUG onboard and TUG footpath" by Dr Laura BissellStudies in Theatre and…Continue
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