1st Edition
Encountering Environments through the Arts Interdisciplinary Embodiments, Politics, and Imaginaries
Introduction
Shirley Chubb and Victoria Hunter
Part 1: Encounters and Imaginaries
1. ‘Walking White Cliffs Country’
Phil Hubbard
2. ‘Imagined Landscapes/ Uncertain Surfaces: Running, writing, experimental film and Parkinson’s Disease’
Janice Howard
3. Native American Theatre as Environmental ‘Intervention’: Larissa FastHorse and Cornerstone Theater Company’s ‘Place-Specific’ Production of Urban Rez
Andrew Novell
4. ‘Correspondence, Coequality and Wildness in Site-based Screen Dance’
Virginia Farman
Part 2: Access and Permissions: Inclusions and exclusions
5. ‘Playing Kate: Encroaching and enclosing the maternal commons’
Jodie Hawkes and Pete Philips
6. Dancing in the Street: Pride, Parade and Protest
Callum Anderson
7. ‘Black dancers: Breaking barriers in British ballet institutions’
Sandie Bourne
8. ‘Mudlarking through organisational culture’
Rob Warwick
Part 3: Poetic Encounters: Inner and Outer dialogues
9. ‘Tumbles through reality, memory and fiction: desiring a tactile (re)imagining with the Pembrokeshire coast’
Rachel Coleman
10. ‘Using Diagrams in Place-Based Performances’
Phil Smith
11. ‘Sympoietic Encounters’
Oren Lieberman and Belinda Mitchell
12. ‘The poetics of eco-somatics: on body, mind and ecology.’
Polly Hudson
Part 4: Ecologies, Care and Immersion
13. ‘Who Cares: Encounters with the aesthetic use of thermal imaging to explore the role of touch as a signifier of care, contamination, intimacy and trust.’
Angela Woodhouse and Caroline Broadhead
14. ‘From Home to Home: Steps Between Worlds: Peregrination and the Art of Place-Making’
Andrea Vassallo
15. ‘rince / damsha / macnas: A dance between Gaelic language, embodied disputed spatial practice and choreography as a tool of socio-ecological praxis.’
Beatrice Jarvis
16. Transgressing Boundaries: BMX biking, public green space and the generation of the commons
Siobhan O’Neill
Biography
Victoria Hunter is Professor of Site Dance at Bath Spa University, UK. Her research explores site-based dance, new materialism and performance, and examines the body’s engagement with space and place through corporeal, spatial and kinetic engagements with lived environments.
Shirley Chubb is Emerita Reader in Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Chichester, UK, and held a Creative Physiotherapy Scholarship at Auckland University of Technology, NZ, working within the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences. Her research focuses on broadening the reach, impact and collaborative potential of the visual arts and involves the use of artefacts, film and digital technologies.
