TY - JOUR
T1 - A Regional Conversation
AU - Matless, David
AU - Pearson, Michael John
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Mike Pearson is Professor of Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University. Between 1971 and 1997, he worked as a professional director and performer; he continues to make performances as a solo artist and in collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes (1997–present). Much of his output has been site-specific: performances that in their content, form, and design respond to particular locations. In 2007, he received a smaller research grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s ‘Landscape and Environment’ strategic programme to create Carrlands, a three-hour web-based audio work combining text and music inspired by the agricultural landscapes of the Ancholme valley in North Lincolnshire. In 2009, he was co-organizer of the programme’s ‘Living Landscapes’ international conference in Aberystwyth University. He is author (with Michael Shanks) of Theatre/Archaeology (2001), ‘In Comes I’: Performance, Memory and Landscape (2006), Site-Specific Performance (2010) and The Mickery Theater: An Imperfect Archaeology (forthcoming 2011).
PY - 2012/1/12
Y1 - 2012/1/12
N2 - The following text is based upon a conversation in Nottingham on 19 March 2010 between Mike Pearson and David Matless, who met to talk around three issues concerning the narration of regional landscape: the differences and parallels in disciplinary terms between geography and performance studies in approaches to the region; the place of autobiography in approaching a region; and the materials to be called upon when investigating a region. The immediate context was a potential piece for Cultural geographies in practice, within this special issue of the journal on narrating landscape, but the meeting followed previous discussions which had indicated shared interests and enthusiasms around regional landscape. Mike Pearson's recent performance research has focused on North Lincolnshire, brought together in his book 'In Comes I': Performance, Memory and Landscape, and his project Carrlands, while David Matless's cultural geographic work has included a number of studies of the Norfolk Broads, a wetland area in eastern England, on which he is currently writing a monograph. The conversation lasted for 1 hour 45 minutes, and the following 20 short texts are based upon extracts from the discussion.
AB - The following text is based upon a conversation in Nottingham on 19 March 2010 between Mike Pearson and David Matless, who met to talk around three issues concerning the narration of regional landscape: the differences and parallels in disciplinary terms between geography and performance studies in approaches to the region; the place of autobiography in approaching a region; and the materials to be called upon when investigating a region. The immediate context was a potential piece for Cultural geographies in practice, within this special issue of the journal on narrating landscape, but the meeting followed previous discussions which had indicated shared interests and enthusiasms around regional landscape. Mike Pearson's recent performance research has focused on North Lincolnshire, brought together in his book 'In Comes I': Performance, Memory and Landscape, and his project Carrlands, while David Matless's cultural geographic work has included a number of studies of the Norfolk Broads, a wetland area in eastern England, on which he is currently writing a monograph. The conversation lasted for 1 hour 45 minutes, and the following 20 short texts are based upon extracts from the discussion.
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U2 - 10.1177/1474474010394505
DO - 10.1177/1474474010394505
M3 - Article
SN - 1474-4740
VL - 19
SP - 123
EP - 129
JO - Cultural Geographies
JF - Cultural Geographies
IS - 1
ER -