Our project to investigate “presence” in live performance and media draws to a close with a final conference – March 25-30 Exeter University UK – summing up a tremendous five years of work … [Link] Link – Presence – the conference Next comes a book from Routledge – “Archaeologies of Presence” – due out in…
memory practices
ghost in the mirror 2
Daguerreotype c 1850. Oblique view. See the project Ghosts in the machine.
Steng Cross Northumberland
Winter’s Gibbet, Elsdon, Northumberland.
Bamburgh UK
Site of the court of the Kingdom of Northumbria – at its height in the seventh and eighth centuries.
sensory memory
The British Library has just launched a new web site devoted to the accents and dialects of the north of England, fast disappearing. Collect Britain, putting history in place. You can listen to recordings made from the 1950s of people talking about everyday life. They are saturated in locality. And just the sounds, intonation, cadence…
Cultural physiognomy
Visiting Alan Campbell, House of Commons, London. Prime Minister’s Question Time and a debate calling for a judicial inquiry into the Iraq war. The look and feel of the corridors and chambers together with the look of the inmates (MPs, visitors and staff) are so familiar. Not because we have all seen it on TV…
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