Meg has posted a visual essay on space, photography, archaeology - stressing how our experience of place is always prosthetic - mediated by instruments and by bodies that are not coincident with our sense of ego or self. [Link to the beginning of the series]
In October 1995 theatre company Brith Gof ran the first large scale work of theatre/archaeology - Tri Bywyd (three lives).
It was about the way fragments of sensory memory and other forms of evidence are made to connect and make sense, to make narrative sense of what always surpasses meaning.
It was about holding on to the lack of coincidence between place, event and record. Because it is in that space that we learn to recognise how things may be other than what we assume them to be. This is the space of science and empirical inquiry.
Two scaffolding cubes (after Bernard Tschumi) ran through the ruin of a farmstead deep in a forest in Wales to form three place-events - physical performances in and around the archaeological remains of three deaths.
Sarah Jacob - Llanfihangel-ar-arth 1869 - the fasting girl of Wales.
Lynette White - Cardiff Docks, Wales 1988.
A suicide - rural Clywedog, Wales 1995.
More connections - Three rooms
 by Michael Shanks
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