Performance and Place

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-7
This Must be the Place: Thoughts on Place, Placelessness and Live Art since the 1980s....Pages 8-16
This Secret Location....Pages 17-21
It’s Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation....Pages 22-33
Out of the Furnace and into the Cyberplan....Pages 34-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-51
An Introduction to Vertigo....Pages 52-59
Swimming in Time: Performing Programmes, Mutable Movies — Notes on a Process in Progress....Pages 60-74
The Patina of Placelessness....Pages 75-84
FutureHouse, Blind City: A Life....Pages 85-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-103
Through the Wrong End of the Telescope....Pages 104-112
Walking in Sin City....Pages 113-128
Placed and Displaced: Trauma Memorials....Pages 129-138
Where Difference Lies: Performative Metaphors of Truth, Deception and Placelessness in the Cornish Peninsula....Pages 139-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-154
Lost in Space?: Global Placelessness and the Non-Places of Alladeen ....Pages 155-169
A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt the Hegemonologue....Pages 170-178
Too Close for Comfort: One-to-One Performance....Pages 179-191
Parallel Power: Shakespeare, Gunfire and Silence....Pages 192-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-212
Starry Night Sky....Pages 213-223
Live From Paradise: A Work in Progress....Pages 224-233
Hidy-Hole and Inner Sanctum....Pages 234-251
The Ordering of the Fantastic: Architecture and Place in the Work of Lawrence Steger....Pages 252-269
Back Matter....Pages 270-275