Author Archives: Steve Bottoms

Guardian article: project “impact”?

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Steve Bottoms

I was interviewed this week for this article in The Guardian which appeared on Wednesday. The piece arose as a result of a first press release going out about the new “Towards Hydro-Citizenship” project which is to run from March … Continue reading →

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City of Rivers

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Steve Bottoms

Season’s greetings from performance footprint… Following the recent mini-revival of activity on this blog, here’s a dubious little Christmas gift… a link to a recently finished film: The footage here was actually shot back in July, during a mini-heatwave, which … Continue reading →

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Stark

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Steve Bottoms

Making Sense of Sustainability…? This last weekend (December 6th and 7th), I was invited to another “environmental arts” symposium, this time in Cardiff… Where November’s event at Central School of Speech and Drama, in London, had crammed a huge (slightly … Continue reading →

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Art and Oil in a Cool Climate (pt.3)

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Steve Bottoms

In this third part of my retrospective reflections on recent work by London artist-activists concerned with the machinations of Big Oil, I want to consider Platform’s Oil City – a site-specific performance that tours small groups of participatinging audience members … Continue reading →

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Art and Oil in a Cool Climate (pt.2)

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Steve Bottoms

Further to my comments about Platform/Liberate Tate’s Tate a Tate audio guides in the post preceding this one, I want to attempt (belatedly) to unpack some thoughts about another of Liberate Tate’s 2012 interventions, The Gift. I was unable to … Continue reading →

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Art and Oil in a Cool Climate (Pt. 1)

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Steve Bottoms

It’s oddly appropriate that, two weeks after posting a brief, “3 years on” blog piece remembering our Fountains Abbey network weekend, I found myself once again listening to John Fox, of Dead Good Guides, talking about his and Sue Gill’s … Continue reading →

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3 years on…

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Steve Bottoms

It was 3 years ago today that the first meeting of our “performance footprint” network group took place at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal. As part of the proceedings, Sue Gill of Dead Good Guides (formerly of Welfare State International) … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Eastville

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

On Friday 16th September, seven members of the performance footprint network group (about half of us) reconvened in Bristol for a one-day workshop, using up a bit of the left-over grant funding… The idea was to follow the provocation that … Continue reading →

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And while London burns…

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

So it’s Wednesday evening, and tomorrow I’m off to Bristol for our additional, follow-up network meeting, pursuing a potential collaboration with the Environment Agency. How might we use site/community-based performance to help highlight issues of flood risk (while also retaining … Continue reading →

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Reflections in Oil and Water (Part 2)

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Steve Bottoms

So here I am, weeks after the fact, finally finding the headspace to reflect on the discussions at our final network meeting in May. (See my previous ‘Part 1’ posting for commentary on performances that weekend.) To be fair, there … Continue reading →

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