Full Description
In 2010, Laura Bissell and David Overend became interested in the ways in which theatre and performance often took place on the move. They wanted to follow the paths being made in this field and to create their own.
To this end they established 'Making Routes' - a network and online resource for artists and researchers working with mobilities in contemporary performance. Over a decade later, the mobile collective that emerged is still going strong, with a growing membership, flourishing website and serving as a valuable testing ground for new thinking and practice in journey-based performance.
This book documents their collaborations, projects and findings, gathering texts of their own and others (including Jamie Lorimer, Phil Smith, Laura Ogden, Adrian Howells and Lewis Hetherington) to consolidate their ongoing research project, take stock of their journey, and to ask, 'where next?'
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: Pathways in performance
First, Steps
David Overend Walks Route 77
Reimagining my Commute: The journey in signs - Laura Bissell
Walking Gourock to Glasgow: Reimagining my commute - Bissell
David Overend is Misguided in Ayr
Further Afield
Reflections on a Mobile Train Conference from Helsinki to Rovaniemi - Laura Bissell and David Overend
World Wide Wandering - David Overend
David Overend Attends the Launch of Community Spirit
Imagining Travel - David Overend
Sao Paulo, June 2013 - David Overend
Ice and Sapphire Conjure Flame - Nic Green
The Sea, the Sea, the Sea
Geology Coastal Walk - Laura Bissell
Sound Walk - Laura Bissell
Salt in the Wound - Laura Bissell
Into the Wild
On Contemplation: A dawn to dusk solo in a wilderness - Laura Bissell
The Elephant in the Hedge - David Overend
Performing Wild Geographies - Filipa F. Soares
Helen Billinghurst's Sketches and Maps
Movements of Knepp - Sarah Hopfinger
Under the Surface of Knepp - Laura Bissell
Retreating: Thinking, making, being - Laura Bissell
Reflections on our Latest Visit to Knepp - David Overend and Jamie Lorimer
The Gift in the Beaver - Laura A. Ogden
Landscaping with Beavers - Laura Bissell
Lewis Hetherington Swims with Beavers
Notes Towards Becoming Beaver at Bamff Estate in Perthshire - Jamie Lorimer
Performances, Artworks and Exhibitions
Even in Edinburgh/Glasgow - Ishbel McFarlane
Adrian Howells Discusses the Impact of Travelling on his Evolving Arts Practice
'Reimagined Journeys': Everyday commuting excursions - Laura Bissell
Kneppimagepoem - Laura Bissell
The Six Wild Ways of the Oak - Jamie Lorimer, Sofie Narbed, David Overend, Jenny Swingler and Scott Twynholm
(Im)mobility -
Change and Repair: Trixxy walking, place-stories and recovery in a time of virus - Helen Billinghurst and Phil Smith
Living (in) Precarity - Sarah Hopfinger
Seeking the Sea: Performance in a pandemic - Laura Bissell
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