Performance and Place

LESLIE HILL and HELEN PARIS are writers, performers, filmmakers and co-directors of Curious, the award winning London-based production company (www.placelessness.com). Over the last ten years they have created and toured over 30 performance, film & video projects in Europe, North America, Australia, Brazil, China and India. Leslie Hill is a NESTA Dream Time Fellow. Helen Paris is Convener of the MA in Solo Performance at Brunel University, London, UK.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors PART ONE: MAPPING THE TERRITORY Introduction; L.Hill This Must Be The Place: Place, Placelessness and Live Art since the 1980s; L.Keidan This Secret Location; H.Cole It's Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation; M.Waugh Out of the Furnace and into the Cyberplan; M.Wilson PART TWO: (DIS)PLACING THE SENSES Introduction; L.Hill An Introduction to Vertigo; R.La Frenais Swimming in Time: Performing Programmes, Mutable Movies - Notes on a Process in Progress; T.Dove The Patina of Placelessness; E.Puthoff Future House, Blind City: A Life; J.Birringer PART THREE: ON LOCATION Introduction; L.Hill Through the Wrong End of the Telescope; G.Miller Walking in Sin City; M.Peterson Placed and Displaced: Trauma Memorials; L.B.Clark Where Difference lies: Performative Metaphors of Truth, Deception and Placelessness in the Cornish Peninsula; P.Laviolette PART FOUR: BORDER PANIC Introduction; L.Hill Lost in Space?: Global Placelessness and the Non-Places of Alladeen ; J.Parker Starbuck A Place for Protest: The Billionaires for Bush Interrupt the Hegemonologue; L.M.Bogad Too Close for Comfort: One to One Performance; H.Paris Parallel Power: Shakespeare, Gunfire and Silence; P.Heritage PART FIVE: THEATRE IN A CROWDED FIRE Introduction; L.Hill Starry Night Sky; L.Hixson Live From Paradise: A Work in Progress; J.Maynard Smith Hideyhole and Innersanctum; A.Kötting The Ordering of the Fantastic: Architecture and Place in the Work of Lawrence Steger; M.Goulish Index

'...a timely, and at times, poetic engagement with an elusive sense of place' - Michael Pinchbeck, Platform