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Guardian article: project “impact”?

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

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

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.2)

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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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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Narratives of what?

Narratives of what? I recently had a day with friends at ARCIO (Action Research and Critical Inquiry in Organisations, Department of Management at the University of Bristol http://arcio.org/ ). The day was titled Gathering Hopeful Narratives of Sustainability. Reflecting about … Continue reading

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Local~Global integrated?

Beyond the shrink-wrapped syndrome? In his posting about the ‘shrink wrapped’ qualities of performance studies Steve asks what we might do to broaden the reach of our network in order to avoid getting caught in the trap that the Living … Continue reading

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Shrink-wrapped

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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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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