A Performance Cosmology

Christie, Judie

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS /JUDIE CHRISTIE, RICHARD GOUGH, DANIEL WATT - Introduction: Plotting a Course, or Impossible Beginnings -- 1. Intimate Conversations -- Ways of working with the Centre for Performance Research /JUDIE CHRISTIE - On Ways of Working: A View from the Bridge /Claire Macdonald - Tools for Conviviality /ANNA FENEMORE - Ways of Working: Eight things I know now that I didn't know before /HEIKE ROMS - Eye and Ear, Foot and Mouth: Mapping performance in three journeys and one withdrawal /RICALLSOPP - Express Trains: Working at CPR /JOAN MILLS - A Family Affair /PAULALLAIN - The Nature and Culture of Performance /DANIEL WATT - Philoxenia: The Host as Parasite /HELENIBALL - A Little Big Boots: On participating in Summer Shift 2004 /SIBYLLE PETERS - Performances of Truth /FRANKIE ARMSTRONG - Singing Praise /AILSA RICHARDSON - Pro-found and Impossible /JILL GREENHALGH - And before I know it /FRANC CHAMBERLAIN - Ways of Working: Ten Fragments from Sixteen Years of Interaction -- SELECTED INTERVIEWS WITH RICHARD GOUGH - The Courage to Create: Food, Alchemy, Objects and Performance -- 2. Testimony from the Future -- Field Station dispatches and soundings Towards Tomorrow -- The Field Stations: Ways of Reading /ENZO COZZI - A River of Senses and a Touch of Otherness /GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA - Declaration of Poetic Disobedience /AMELIA JONES - Rupture /JOHANNES BIRRINGER - Interactive Environments and Digital Perception /PHILIP AUSLANDER - AnimalCam: Ocularcentrism and Non-Human Performance /JON MCKENZIE - Global Feeling: (Almost] All You Need Is Love /DAVID WILLIAMS - Writing (After) the Event: Notes on Appearance, Passage and Hope /MATTHEW GOULISH - The Scribes of Merlin (An obscure lecture) /REBECCA SCHNEIDER - What I Can't Recall /JANE GOODALL - Stones in the Mind /MIKE PEARSON - Marking Time /CHRISTOPHER BALME - Aporias of Ekphrasis: The Performance Archive -Archiving the Performance /JOE KELLEHER - Legwork - Thinking Showing Doing /SUSAN MELROSE - Who Knows - and who cares - about performance mastery (?) /TIM ETCHELLS - Incomplete Alphabet uo /DRAGAN KLAIC - Hounded Buildings: Site, performance and traumatic memory U5 /ADRIAN KEAR - The Memory of Promise: Theatre and the Ethic of the Future U8 /ALPHONSO LINGIS - Open Wounds /MICK WALLIS - Ramblers Associations Witness / scopophilia / aprosexia / sight /LAURIE BETH CLARK - Dear Friends and Family /FREDDIE ROKEM - Witnessing the Witness /PATRICE PAVIS - The Effect Produced /ADRIAN HEATHFIELD - Writing of the Event /MICHAEL PETERSON - an untenable identity formation: Eleutheria in eight parts /EDWARD SCHEER - Eleutheromania: Performance Art and the War on Terror /MICHAL KOBIALKA - Deleria/Nostalgia; Time, Space, Topography /ALAN READ - Arrested Life: A Sadness Without an Object /PAUL CARTER - Delirium: Nostalgia, Theatre and Public Space /PAUL RAE - Why there is Wind: Power, Trees, Performance -- Towards Tomorrow: Forward /RUSTOM BHARUCHA - Towards Tomorrow? Processing the Limits of Performance into the Real of Time /RICHARD SCHECHNER - Towards Tomorrow? Restoring Disciplinary Limits and Rehearsals in Time? -- 3. Evidence of the Past -- For the record, ancfwith the benefit of hindsight -- SELECTED INTERVIEWS WITH RICHARD GOUGH - From the Laboratory to the Centre: History, Training, the Academy and the Book /RICHARD GOUGH - Perfect Time : Imperfect Tense /D P WOVEWEFT - Bibliophobia : An Oneiric Fable -- A FAMILY ALBUM :1974-2005 - Circumstantial Evidence -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PHOTOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND ILLUSTRATION SOURCES.