Walking, Writing and Performance (Paperback)

Roberta Mock

ISBN 10: 1841501557 / ISBN 13: 9781841501550

Published by Intellect, Bristol, 2009

About this Item

Paperback. This collection charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes. Included in the book are the full texts of The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside by Phil Smith, Mourning Walk by Carl Lavery, and Tree by Deirdre Heddon, each accompanied by photographs and contextual essays. Taken together or separately, the work of all three artist-scholars raises important issues about memory, the ethics of autobiographical performance, ritual, life writing, and site-specific performance. Exemplifies the documentation and contextualization of site-based performance and practice-as-research. This book allows for comparisons of three very contemporary performance events and their making, extending the possibilities of published performance texts beyond 'traditional' plays. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781841501550

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walking, Writing and Performance (Paperback)
• Publisher: Intellect, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841501557
• ISBN 13: 9781841501550
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

This collection charts three projects by performers who generate autobiographical writing by walking through inspirational landscapes. Included in the book are the full texts of The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside by Phil Smith, Mourning Walk by Carl Lavery, and Tree by Deirdre Heddon, each accompanied by photographs and contextual essays. Taken together or separately, the work of all three artist-scholars raises important issues about memory, the ethics of autobiographical performance, ritual, life writing, and site-specific performance.

About the Author

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.