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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
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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
Landscaping with Beavers
Arriving“The more beavery the landscape is, the harder it is to find them.” This is what Laura Ogden, an environmental anthropologist from the US told us on our first evening in Bamff in Perthshire as we took an evening walk around the land to try to spot some beavers. An interdisciplinary group of ten researchers including artists, cultural geographers, and anthropologists visited the estate for four days to explore “landscaping with beavers”, and the possibility of multispecies collaboration.…See More
Landscaping with Beavers
We have just returned from a wild weekend at the Bamff beaver project in Perthshire. Bamff hosts the longest established population of reintroduced beavers in Scotland and is located amidst the growing population of beavers in the Tay valley. The Ramsay family, who own the estate, are key players in current debates about beaver reintroduction in Scotland. Over three days at Bamff we learned about the beavers and their landscape, and participated in a set of creative experiments in landscaping…See More
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The Gift in the Beaver
Posted by Laura A. Ogden on August 20, 2019 at 17:11 0 Comments 0 Likes
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…
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Posted by Laura Bissell on July 29, 2019 at 21:30 0 Comments 1 Like
Arriving
“The more beavery the landscape is, the harder it is to find them.” This is what Laura Ogden, an environmental anthropologist from the US told us on our first evening in Bamff in Perthshire as we took an evening walk around the land to try to spot some beavers. An interdisciplinary group of ten researchers including artists, cultural geographers, and anthropologists visited the estate for four days to explore “landscaping with beavers”, and the possibility of…
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Posted by David Overend on June 24, 2019 at 19:51 0 Comments 0 Likes
We have just returned from a wild weekend at the Bamff beaver project in Perthshire. Bamff hosts the longest established population of reintroduced beavers in Scotland and is located amidst the growing population of beavers in the Tay valley. The Ramsay family, who own the estate, are key players in current debates about beaver…
ContinueReflections on our latest visit to Knepp
Posted by David Overend on October 29, 2018 at 15:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
On 14th– 17th September 2018, I returned to Knepp Castle Estate for a third time with Jamie Lorimer, along with three new visitors: Sofie Narbed, Jenny Swingler and Scott Twynholm. On previous trips we had scoped out, explored and experimented with this complicated site; learning to read, interpret and work with the wild processes and inhabitants of the Wildland Project (Overend and Lorimer 2018). This time, we planned to make something: to create a text that…
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Book review
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Read my review of Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink’s Nomadic Theatre: Mobilising Theory and Practice on the European Stage, just published at…Continue
New article
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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…Continue
New publications
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A couple of journeying publications this month:My article 'Rantin and Raving: Kieran Hurley's Aesthetic Communities' is available at …Continue
New Article
Started by David Overend Jul 10, 2018. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Jamie Lorimer and I have published an article on our rewilding work at Knepp Castle Estate. 'Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project' is available in…Continue
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