A Performance Cosmology Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past

Introduction: Into the Rose Garden  Part 1: Intimate Conversations: Ways of Working with the Centre for Performance Research  1.1 Tools for Conviviality Claire Macdonald  1.2 Eight things I know now that I didn’t know before Anna Fenemore  1.3 Eye and Ear, Foot and Mouth: Mapping Performance in three journeys and one withdrawal Heike Roms  1.4 Express Trains: Working at CPR Ric Allsopp  1.5 Singing Praise Frankie Armstrong  1.6 Ten Things I Love about You Joan Mills  1.7 A Little Big Boots: on participating in Summer Shift 2004 Helen Iball  1.8 Performances of Truth Sibylle Peters  1.9 Pro-found and Impossible Ailsa Richardson  1.10 A Memory or Two Before I Know it… Jill Greenhalgh  1.11 The Nature and Culture of Performance Paul Allain  1.12 Ten Fragments Franc Chamberlain  1.13 The Courage to Create: Food, Alchemy, Objects and Performance: Selected interviews with Richard Gough  Part 2: Testimony from the Future  Richard Schechner Interviewed by Richard Gough  A River of Senses and a Touch of Otherness Enzo Cozzi  Declaration of Poetic Disobedience Guillermo Gomez-Pena  Interactive Environments and Digital Perception Johannes Birringer  AnimalCam: Ocularcentrism and Non-Human Performance Philip Auslander  Global Feeling: (Almost) All You Need is Love Jon McKenzie  Writing (After) the Event: Notes on Appearance, Passage and Hope David Williams  The scribes of Merlin 'An obscure lecture' Matthew Goulish  What I Can't Recall Rebecca Schneider  Stones in the Mind Jane Goodall  Marking Time Mike Pearson  Aporias of Ekphrasis: The Performance Archive – Archiving the Performance Christopher Balme  Legwork -- Thinking Showing Doing Joe Kelleher  Who knows - and who cares - about performance mastery?  Susan Melrose  Incomplete Alphabet Tim Etchells  Hounded Buildings: Site, Performance and Traumatic Memory Dragan Klaic  The Memory of Promise: Theatre and the Ethic of the Future Adrian Kear  Open Wounds Alphonso Lingis  Ramblers Associations Mick Wallis  Witnessing the Witness Freddie Rokem  The Effect Produced Patrice Pavis  Dear Friends and Family Laurie Beth Clark  The Writing of the Event Adrian Heathfield  An Untenable Identity Formation: Eleutheria in 8 parts Michael Peterson  Eleutheromania: Performance Art and the war on terror Edward Scheer  Time, Space, Topography Michal Kobialka  Arrested Life: A Sadness Without an Object Alan Read  Delirium: Nostalgia, Theatre and Public Space Paul Carter  Why There is Wind Paul Rae  Rustom Bharucha Interviewed by Richard Gough  Part 3: Evidence of the Past  3.1 From the Laboratory to the Centre: History, Training, the Academy and the Book - Selected Interviews with Richard Gough  3.2 Perfect Time: Imperfect Tense. An Object Exercise in Conditional Remembrance Richard Gough  3.3 Bibliophobia Daniel Watt  3.4 Resource Centre Time/Space Collapse Antony Pickthall  3.5 Chronology of 30 years of productions, festivals, conferences, workshops and publications.

Biography

Christie, Judie

'The diversity of texts and images is careful and generous... There is a pleasing and intelligent sense of resistance in this book and it is timely and helpful.' - Performance Paradigm