Parys Mountain: Alchemy of Landscape
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 2285
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Digital archive of site-specific research
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/9282/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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T - Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research output comprises a digital archive containing three decades of Practice Research: www.parysmountain.site (2020)._x000D_
Parys Mountain: Alchemy of Landscape contributes to, and expands upon, research within the fields of site-based art and performance, and also dialogues with geology and archaeology (Pearson, 2001). _x000D_
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The research aims to deconstruct both the romantic notion of the Sublime in relation to this landscape, and the modern quest for progress (Dillon, 2011; Schama, 2006), in order to underscore urgent ecological issues, enabling spectators to focus on questions of decay, time and history intrinsic to both the human body and the non-human world (Gablik, 1995; Smithson, 1979)._x000D_
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Butoh is a post-World War Two performance philosophy foregrounding subjective and improvisatory movement and the performer’s imaginative faculties to provoke the performance of transformation into something ‘other’, in particular the non-human (1). I am an expert in Butoh (Fraleigh, 2010) and a trained visual artist. I investigate ways of forging these disciplines through engaging in visual and performed acts of physical transformation, immersion and duration, to encounter both the Parys Quarry – the object of this research and site of my performances – and the body as ‘artefact’ and ‘ruin’. _x000D_
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Parys Mountain: Alchemy of Landscape assembles material created over a thirty-year period, during which time technologies have radically shifted from analogue to digital. The resultant meshing of ‘vintage’ and contemporary documentary languages – embracing Super-8, projected slide and print film, field-recorded sound, digital visual and sonic technologies – and embodied research, consciously plays with notions of archaeology: our language of documentation involves the methodology of accumulating composite layers and our obsessive macro-documentation of the surfaces of the site itself. The act of documentation generates dialogue, opening questions of how we might embody a site (Smithson, 1967, Kwon, 2002).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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