THEMES
Performance is increasingly regarded not only as a creative practice and mode of representation but also as a vital means of embodied enquiry and as analytical trope. Landscape as a concept includes a range of places: urban, rural and industrial, spectacular and overlooked, everyday and enchanting, remembered and contested, embodied, looked at, moved through, worked on, lived in… Performance offers approaches to encountering and experiencing such places, to examining and understanding them, to characterising them, to re-imagining them… A field opens in which scholarly and artistic practices inform each other, and new critical perspectives on, sensitivities to, and involvements with landscape and environment emerge: movement, visitation, engagement, immersion, dwelling, struggle become means to appreciate and exemplify the nature of places. |
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These are amongst the themes and questions the conference will address: |
