A team from National Theatre Wales, featuring Kyle Legall and Mike Pearson, have just published a powerful work of theatre/archaeology* in their series Storm, about the race riots in Cardiff Wales in 1919. It takes the form of a graphic novel with animated video and voice over. A timely intervention. https://www.cardiff1919.wales – [Link] *theatre/archaeology –…
Mike Pearson
update – summer 2016
The book on Greece and Rome with Gary (Devore) [Link] is close to being done. We’ve chosen to offer a quite different kind of account of antiquity and we’re delighted with the scope of its underlying model and perspective (archaeological and focused on the topic of membership of body politic). It’s the success of our…
returning
The past comes back to haunt in all sorts of ways. This is a key feature of the archaeological imagination. It may be something like “this happened here”, or “this was the way it was, and still is”. And, as archaeologists, as all of us do – we return, revisit, rehearse, reiterate, repeat. This familiar…
stone body
In Elsdon churchyard (Northumberland) with Mike Pearson. Anthony Gormley – Allotment – Concrete boxes made to measure for residents of Malmo [Link]
cloud study
Prehistoric round house, Coquet Valley, Northumberland. On location with Mike Pearson.
Cragside, Northumberland
Scene of crime. Investigating with Mike Pearson. Home and estate of the First Lord Armstrong. Now in the hands of The National Trust.
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