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Points of Contact - Performance, Places and Pasts
September 1998
This four day event, which includes two full-day field-trips, brings together Welsh performance practitioners whose work is concerned with notions of place and identity with other artists and scholars from around the world from the fields of archaeology, human geography, history, anthropology, folklore and literature studies.
Site-visits to locations throughout West Wales from ruined industrial sites to contested landscapes, from prehistoric burial settlements to ancient abbeys, from intimate places of habitat to guided walks over Welsh mountains.
Performances and Installations by Welsh performers who share an interest in the relationship between ourselves, our bodies and our environment, and in the impact a particular location can have on our lives. They acknowledge the close link between culture, subjectivity and place without reverting to nostalgia, new age mysticism or an aggressive 'native soil' ideology.'
Scholarly Papers and Illustrated Talks from international scholars who are drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplinary fields. Through the stances of their particular expertise and the lens of their personal autobiography, we have invited them to reflect upon traditional spatial notions which describe the Welsh 'sense of place', a series of cognitive maps surrounding home and locality, and expanding to other notions of place:
THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER will begin with an inaugural address from conference chairs Mike Pearson (Brith Gof and Dept. of Theatre, Film and Television Studies @ University of Wales, Aberystwyth) and Michael Shanks (Head of Archaeology @ University of Wales, Lampeter). This will be followed by formal presentations and panel discussions and an evening showing of work by Marc Rees, Sean Tuan John and John Rowley, Cardiff based company Cardiff-based company R.I.P.E. whose current project FIST focuses on an encounter between Kingsley Amis and Francis Bacon in a notorious drinking den in the heart of Cardiff docks named 'The Snake Pit' in 1956.
FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER: A circular tour of Ceredigion with visits to the ruined industrial landscape of Cwm Ystwyth and the abbey of Strata Florida, in the company of landscape archaeologist Dr. David Austin. During the day Clifford McLucas (Joint Artistic director of Brith Gof) will give a multi-media presentation dealing with his work on contested landscapes. There will also be work from choreographer and director Margaret Ames whose performance lecture 'Re-enactment' takes extracts from three of her own pieces of work which examine questions of place and identity in West Wales.
SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER: A field trip to the Preseli Mountains including a walk across the extraordinary prehistoric landscapes with presentations and commentaries along the way. The day will also include presentations by movement artist Simon Whitehead whose performance work uses landscape as its recurrent theme and location and by physical performer Eddie Ladd who has regularly set details of family history and the intimate experiences of neighbourhood within her precise and often mediated choreographies.
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