ORCID
- Smith, Phil: 0000-0002-0711-8242
Abstract
This paper charts a changing relationship to ruins over fifteen years of making site-specific performance. It looks at three sets of ruins (a nineteenth-century water tower and a chapel and almshouses, both of medieval origins) and records how they each acted as the beginning of three separate post-dramatic performance projects. By re-visiting and walking between the three sets of ruins, the author tests his own changing understanding of their materiality: from inert properties waiting for invasive or re-compositional acts to unfinished and vibrant materials actively recomposing themselves as allies in resistance and ‘slow revolution’.
Publication Date
2015-10-15
Publication Title
Performance Research
ISSN
1352-8165
Organisational Unit
School of Art, Design and Architecture
Recommended Citation
Smith, P. (2015) 'Sites of dereliction: beginnings and allies of performance', Performance Research, . Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/ada-research/287
