Sophie Calle – Following public person to reconnect with Paris, seeing the city through that person.
Janet Cardiff – Overlaying someones connection with a place with her own narration.
Marcia Farqhar – Tours of cities (A Live Art Tour), in the moment performance, never the same twice, interaction and immersion.
Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain by Bob Whalley and Lee Miller – Replacing bottles of urine on motorway with items, renewed wedding vows in service station (relates to non-spaces).
Nights in this City by Forced Entertainment – “the worst” bus tour of Sheffield, explored histories in the urban space, political.
Saturday night and Sunday Morning by John Newling – Using lights and heaters to make an outside space feel safer and become more communal.
Marc Auge – Theorist, discusses places and non-places in his book Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. He says a non-place is a place of transit and not social, and a place is where organic social life is generated.
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by George Parec – Wrote down everyday conversations to exhaust the place.
The Girl Chewing Gum by George Smith (1976) – performative acting, narrating over a video and taking on the role of director.
Site Specific Performance by Mike Pearson – (Bubbling Tongue)
Site Specific Art: Performance. Place and Documentation by Nick Kaye – (mentioned in Mike Pearson book)
Art and Objecthood by Michael Fried (1968) – (mentioned in Nick Kaye book) minimalist sculpture, simple object that becomes theatrical through audience observing it and participating with it.
Richard Serra said “to move the work is to destroy the work”
One Place After Another by Miron Kwon – She looks at local identity and challenges/goes against peoples attempts at representing community.
Dee Heddon – she often recreates performances (recreated Bubbling Tongue), scriptotherapy: the act of writing down personal stories as a therapy, catharsis.
Cathy Turner – Palimpsest: the act of layering over already historic narratives with your own, presenting the new layer/s as well as its earlier self, showing how it has been altered.
Salon Adrienne by Adrian Howells – Gives salon treatments to public/audience, interested in the confessional exchange with audience member, his persona is female (making audience more willing to confess), the clensing of the hair mirrors the cleansing of the soul, staring in mirror.
A Machine to see with by Blast Theory – A series of phone calls which give instructions, leads the listener to believe they will rob a bank, described as like being the centre role in a film.
Theatre and the City by Jen Harvey.
Dorine Massey – Looks at site being globally interactive as well as tiny.
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