Author Archives: Steve Bottoms

Glasgow blog link

Many thanks to Dee for pointing out this link to a detailed and positive blog on our Glasgow symposium event in February.  

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Phil Smith: Footnotes for Apocalypse

[posted on Phil’s behalf. Although I confess to making up the title, to fill the subject field. My apologies in advance. SB] Abstract: these notes have been assembled according to a feeling of precise ambivalence – that from all the … Continue reading

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Oily Anatomies and Toxic Landscapes (Part 1)

The “performance footprint” network held its third and final scheduled meeting in London on May 20th/21st. At our second meeting, in Scotland at Cove Park, the emphasis had been on network members themselves making work in situ, but since this … Continue reading

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Anatomy of a Network Event

This Friday, 20th May, the ‘performance footprint’ network is hosting a public symposium event at the Anatomy Theatre & Museum at Kings College London. This forms part of the third and final scheduled meeting of this AHRC-funded network series — … Continue reading

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How I Spent My Spring Vacation

With planning now well underway for our third network meeting at Kings College London next month, I am grateful to Phil Smith for providing me with the following gem regarding a certain street we’ll be seeing a lot of: “The … Continue reading

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Wallace Heim – “Can a site learn?”

[Posted on Wallace’s behalf. And with a big thanks to her for making this available. SB] Steve very kindly asked if I would put up the notes from my talk on Friday 11th February at the Glasgow Symposium. They seem … Continue reading

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Tony Jackson – Reflections on Cove Park

[Posted on Tony’s behalf as he disappears off to Egypt to get revolutionised. SB] At last, a few moments to jot down some rather rushed reflections on the Cove Park event. I won’t try to compete with the impressively articulate, … Continue reading

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More extinction of experience – or is it? (Alison Parfitt)

[Alison recently emailed me this editorial that she wrote  for ECOS , the journal of the British Association of Nature Conservationists, back in 2005 (Vol. 26 No.1). Since it relates directly to some other points recently discussed on the blog, … Continue reading

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The Scottish Weekend: One Account (Dee Heddon)

[I’m posting this on Dee’s behalf, since she keeps losing the instructions about how to do it herself. (Could this be a willed forgetting?) SB] 1. An Introduction In our original conception of our network our intention was to migrate … Continue reading

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Phil Smith: Notes from Cove Park

[As with Fountains Abbey, these notes are Phil’s – not mine. I’m just the poster boy. This time the photos are Phil’s too. SB] when I am exploring Cove Park I find some appealing spaces – space under the pods, … Continue reading

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