Author Archives: Steve Bottoms

Cultivating Attentiveness? Responses to Glasgow/Cove Park

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

In my summary post about the network’s Fountains Abbey weekend (See “Looking Back, Looking Forward”), I proposed that ambivalence and dissensus were perhaps the most insistent elements to emerge from our discussions. Looking back with the experience of our second … Continue reading →

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Phil Smith: Notes from Fountains Abbey

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

As the title of this post suggests, these are Phil’s notes rather than mine. He had meant to work them up more formally, but couldn’t find the time. Personally, I think they have an appealingly raw, performative energy even in … Continue reading →

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Precarious

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

Cover shot for new album by Baz, Phil and Wallace. At our weekend network meeting just past, Paula Kramer’s description of the Cove Park site as feeling “precarious” summed up and framed many of my own feelings about the location. … Continue reading →

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

With our second network meeting, in Glasgow & Cove Park, coming up very shortly (Feb 11th-13th),  I thought I’d take a moment to prepare by looking back over the flipchart-scrawled notes from our Fountains Abbey weekend last October. There are … Continue reading →

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Theatricalized microclimate

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Steve Bottoms

I wanted to develop a bit further on my “comment” responding to Baz’s Local/Global post — specifically his emphasis on the inherent theatricality of our chosen sites. This is very apparent at the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal estate especially, … Continue reading →

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Shrink-wrapped

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Steve Bottoms

In last week’s Times Higher Education, Christopher Innes provides a fairly damning review of a new book called “Sarah Kane in Context,” commenting that it “exposes all too revealingly some of the problems of current academic criticism: self-reflexive, self-referential, self-promoting.” … Continue reading →

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Site visit to Fountains Abbey

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Steve Bottoms

This week I made my first site visit to the Fountains Abbey / Studley Royal estate since we secured the network grant. I was reminded how perfect this site is as an exhibit of the way that humans here have … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 6, 2010 by Steve Bottoms

Welcome to the new blogsite for the AHRC-funded network project, “Reflecting on Environmental Change through Site-based Performance.” Bit of a mouthful, I know, so suggestions for snappier titles warmly welcomed. In the meantime, the domain name will do! Members of … Continue reading →

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