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Welcome to performance footprint.
This site is dedicated to documenting some fumbling attempts to think through the actual and potential relationships between site-specific performance and environmental change (including, but not limited to, the question of climate change).
A guiding conviction is that, by animating through theatrical means the close-up characteristics of particular localities – and of the way that we as humans have used, inhabited, or left ‘footprints’ in these places – we might also gain keener insights into the ‘global’ ecological questions of impact and sustainability – of ‘how on earth we are to live’.
performance footprint was set up as the online home for the 2010-11 AHRC network project “Reflecting on Environmental Change through Site-Based Performance”. See pages under Network for details, and review its discussions under Blog. The site now continues as:
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(1) a home for ongoing discussion of these core themes under Blog, by network members and other interested parties.
(2) a repository for Documents generated during and after the network project.
(3) a site for documentation of related performance Projects (including video and sound work).
Please feel free to join the discussion by commenting on pages of interest. If you would like to become a contributor to the blog, just drop me an email: s.j.bottoms@leeds.ac.uk
Thanks for reading,
Steve Bottoms (Principal Investigator)