Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith

Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith

by RobertaMock (Editor)

Synopsis

This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks through inspirational landscapes. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that explore processes of development, writing, and performance. There are performances based on exploratory walking in South Devon, Munich, Herm and San Gimignano, a walk exploring 'an ethics of autobiographical performance', and multi-disciplinary collaborative processes. Taken together and separately, the work of all three artists raises important issues about memory, the ethics of autobiographical performance, ritual, life writing, textuality, subjectivity and site in performance.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 192
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 2009

ISBN 10: 1841501557
ISBN 13: 9781841501550

Author Bio

Roberta Mock, originally from Canada, is a performance theorist and practitioner. She is a reader in performance and associate dean for postgraduate affairs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth. She is the editor of Performing Processes: Creating Live Performance, also published by Intellect books, and series editor of Intellect s Playtext series.