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Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the details of the Cambridge Performance
Network's final seminar of the term, to be held *next Monday*, in
collaboration with members of CRASSH's Alchemical Landscape group.
LANDSCAPE, DWELLING AND SITE-RESPONSIVE PRACTICE
Monday 21st November | SG1, Alison Richard Building, West Road | 5-7pm
(followed by refreshments at The Granta)
In this seminar, we'll hear about - and then watch - examples of how
performance-makers have, to a variety of purposes, engaged with some
particular sites and events within the non-urban British landscape. How
can such a focus provide a platform for alternative or marginalised
voices, or articulate a need for a different set of ecological
relations?
Please arrive promptly, as space may be limited this week.
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26969
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Abstracts:
Ms Yvonne Salmon - The Alchemical Landscape: The Geographic Turn in
Contemporary Art, Literature and Culture
An increasing number of post-millennial artists are turning to the rural
landscape as a source of inspiration and are investing their
representations with esoteric, if not magical ideas. This paper works as
a brief survey of this field and in so doing offers an overview of the
primary concerns of the Alchemical Landscape project. With reference to
the likes of English Heretic and Black Meadow, particular emphasis will
be placed on artists who engage in forms of site-specific practice.
Prof. Stephen Bottoms - "Too Much of Water": A Little Show About the Big
Flood
This new storytelling performance is about some of the people who had
too much water in their lives - and in their homes - when the River Aire
broke its banks on Boxing Day, 2015. The show explores the devastating
effects of the flood on riverside residents in Shipley, Baildon and
Saltaire, but the story is told with theatrical flair and a streak of
black comedy. For as Laertes says of his drowned sister Ophelia, in
Shakespeare's /Hamlet/, why shed more tears when there's already too
much water?
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About the speakers:
Yvonne Salmon directs the Alchemical Landscape Project and convenes the
parallel CRASSH research group. Her interdisciplinary research on law,
literature,
art, photography and film mirrors the principle of solve et coagula
found throughout the Alchemical Landscape Project. She lectures for the
Department of Land Economy and Faculty of Law specializing in law and
behavioural economics and is an associate of the Department of Art
History, an affiliate member of the Centre for Film and Screen and an
English Faculty supervisor. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts, Royal Geographical Society and Royal Anthropological Institute and
chairs the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group. She was
formerly a convener of the CRASSH Screen Media Group. She has been
published by Getty, Cambridge University Press, Intersentia and the BFI,
amongst others. She is currently writing on law, literature and the
culture of the 1960s. Her creative output builds on ideas of activism,
mischief, evidence, memoir and behaviour, recently taking the form of
performance pieces investigating psychogeography and recording, with a
forthcoming album to be released on Eighth Climate.
Stephen Bottoms is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at
the University of Manchester, where he is also currently Head of Drama.
He previously taught at the Universities of Leeds and Glasgow. His books
include 'Sex, Drag and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance'
(with Diane Torr, 2010), 'Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and
Goat Island' (with Matthew Goulish, 2007), 'Playing Underground: A
Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement' (2004), and
'The Theatre of Sam Shepard' (1998). He has co-edited special editions
of the journals Performance Research ('Performing Literatures', 2009;
'On Ecology', 2012) and Contemporary Theatre Review ('Tim Crouch, The
Author and the Audience', 2011; 'Electoral Theatre', 2015). Steve is
currently a Co-Investigator on the AHRC Connected Communities project
'Towards Hydro-Citizenship' (2014-17), and is responsible for leading
its West Yorkshire case study. He is also a theatre practitioner with
extensive experience as writer, director and performer.
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Jack Belloli
PhD candidate in English
Queens' College, Cambridge
CB3 9ET
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