Table Of ContentPerformance and Place
Edited by
Leslie Hill and Helen Paris
Performance and Place
Performance Interventions
Series Editors: Elaine Aston, University of Lancaster, and Bryan Reynolds,
University of California, Irvine
Performance Interventions is a series of monographs and essay collections on
theatre, performance, and visual culture that share an underlying commitment
to the radical and political potential of the arts in our contemporary moment, or
give consideration to performance and to visual culture from the past deemed
crucial to a social and political present. Performance Interventions moves transver-
sally across artistic and ideological boundaries to publish work that promotes
dialogue between practitioners and academics, and interactions between
performance communities, educational institutions, and academic disciplines.
Titles include:
Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner (editors)
AGAINST THEATRE
Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage
Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris (editors)
FEMINIST FUTURES?
Theatre, Performance, Theory
Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (editors)
PERFORMANCE AND PLACE
Forthcoming titles:
Lynette Goddard
STAGING BLACK FEMINISMS
Identity, Politics, Performance
Amelia M. Kritzer
POLITICAL THEATRE IN POST-THATCHER BRITAIN
Performance Interventions
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Performance and place/edited by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris.
p. cm. — (Performance interventions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1–4039–4503–9 (cloth) — ISBN 978-1–4039–4504–7 (pbk.)
1. Performing arts—Philosophy. 2. Place (Philosophy)
3. Performance art. I. Hill, Leslie, 1967– II. Paris, Helen, 1968–
III. Series.
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For Gill Lloyd and Judith Knight
thanks for giving our placelessness a place
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Contents
List of Illustrations x
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
Note on Contributors xv
Part I Mapping the Territory
Mapping the Territory: Introduction 3
Leslie Hill
1 This Must be the Place: Thoughts on Place, Placelessness
and Live Art since the 1980s 8
Lois Keidan
2 This Secret Location 17
Helen Cole
3 It’s Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation 22
Mark Waugh
4 Out of the Furnace and into the Cyberplan 34
Martha Wilson
Part II (Dis)Placing the Senses
(Dis)Placing the Senses: Introduction 47
Leslie Hill
5 An Introduction to Vertigo 52
Rob La Frenais
6 Swimming in Time: Performing Programmes, Mutable
Movies – Notes on a Process in Progress 60
Toni Dove
7 The Patina of Placelessness 75
Emily Puthoff
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8 FutureHouse, Blind City: A Life 85
Johannes Birringer
Part III On Location
On Location: Introduction 101
Leslie Hill
9 Through the Wrong End of the Telescope 104
Graeme Miller
10 Walking in Sin City 113
Michael Peterson
11 Placed and Displaced: Trauma Memorials 129
Laurie Beth Clark
12 Where Difference Lies: Performative Metaphors of Truth,
Deception and Placelessness in the Cornish Peninsula 139
Patrick Laviolette
Part IV Border Panic
Border Panic: Introduction 151
Leslie Hill
13 Lost in Space?: Global Placelessness and the Non-Places
of Alladeen 155
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
14 A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt
the Hegemonologue 170
L. M. Bogad
15 Too Close for Comfort: One-to-One Performance 179
Helen Paris
16 Parallel Power: Shakespeare, Gunfire and Silence 192
Paul Heritage
Part V Theatre in a Crowded Fire
Theatre in a Crowded Fire: Introduction 209
Leslie Hill
17 Starry Night Sky 213
Lin Hixson
Contents ix
18 Live From Paradise: A Work in Progress 224
Julian Maynard Smith
19 Hidy-Hole and Inner Sanctum 234
Andrew Kötting
20 The Ordering of the Fantastic: Architecture and Place
in the Work of Lawrence Steger 252
Matthew Goulish
Index 270
