Trafalgar Day at Trafalgar Squarestanding on the steps of the National Galleryand walking to the Tate Modern Urban experience is one of layering narrative allegory spectacle intensity assemblage
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material ironies
The Chapman Family Collection at the Saatchi Gallery in London I love the ironies and humor– they look like old wooden ethnographic fetishes – until you see the MacDonalds logo.
Performance research
Canton, Cardiff. Talking with Mike Pearson. Performance practice as research – something that is on the agenda in UK universities. Can theatrical performance (or a novel, or painting) be classed as research? Being there – Tri Bywyd: a work of theatre/archaeology by Brith Gof 1995 Barry Eisler, the novelist and my good friend, came along…
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…
A way of thinking
East End of London. Looking for a house on Princelet Street. Alessandra Lopez Y Royo puts it all this way – archaeology is a way of thinking.
The perfume of garbage
Beginning work with Bill Rathje and David Platt on a paper for a special issue on archaeology and modernism for the journal Modernism/Modernity This is how we begin with the World Trade Center There is something profoundly archaeological about the experience of 9/11 and its aftermath. Less than a month after the attack a meeting…
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