Performance and place

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Note on Contributors......Page 16
Part I: Mapping the Territory......Page 22
Mapping the Territory: Introduction......Page 24
1 This Must be the Place: Thoughts on Place, Placelessness and Live Art since the 1980s......Page 29
2 This Secret Location......Page 38
3 It’s Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation......Page 43
4 Out of the Furnace and into the Cyberplan......Page 55
Part II: (Dis)Placing the Senses......Page 66
(Dis)Placing the Senses: Introduction......Page 68
5 An Introduction to Vertigo......Page 73
6 Swimming in Time: Performing Programmes, Mutable Movies – Notes on a Process in Progress......Page 81
7 The Patina of Placelessness......Page 96
8 Future House, Blind City: A Life......Page 106
Part III: On Location......Page 120
On Location: Introduction......Page 122
9 Through the Wrong End of the Telescope......Page 125
10 Walking in Sin City......Page 134
11 Placed and Displaced: Trauma Memorials......Page 150
12 Where Difference Lies: Performative Metaphors of Truth, Deception and Placelessness in the Cornish Peninsula......Page 160
Part IV: Border Panic......Page 170
Border Panic: Introduction......Page 172
13 Lost in Space?: Global Placelessness and the Non-Places of Alladeen......Page 176
14 A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt the Hegemonologue......Page 191
15 Too Close for Comfort: One-to-One Performance......Page 200
16 Parallel Power: Shakespeare, Gunfire and Silence......Page 213
Part V: Theatre in a Crowded Fire......Page 228
Theatre in a Crowded Fire: Introduction......Page 230
17 Starry Night Sky......Page 234
18 Live From Paradise: A Work in Progress......Page 245
19 Hidy-Hole and Inner Sanctum......Page 255
20 The Ordering of the Fantastic: Architecture and Placein the Work of Lawrence Steger......Page 273
Index......Page 291