Performance 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 Series Standing Order ISBN 1–4039–4443–1 Hardback 1–4039–4444–X Paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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. PN1584.P43 2006 791.01—dc22 2005055334 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 For Gill Lloyd and Judith Knight thanks for giving our placelessness a place This page intentionally left blank 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 vii viii Contents 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