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The Hidden City Symposium Schedule

Mythogeography, Writing, & Site Specific Performance

Saturday 4 October 2008 at the Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth

Morning:

1) KEYNOTE SESSION 1:

    Cathy Turner: "Vagabond Architectures of the Text"

    Nicolas Whybrow: “Writing Art and the City”

2) Parallel panel session 1:

    GLASGOW PANEL:

    Dee Heddon: “City, Forest, Tree”

    Jim Colquhoun: “The Institute of/for Pataphysical Cartography: Recent Field Reports - Eaglesham as Solar Anus and My Trip to Venus”

    Minty Donald: “Pianola Karaoke and other attractions…”

    OR

    SITE WRITING PANEL:

    Open City: "Pay attention to the footnotes: interrogating the hidden itineraries of writing and wandering"    

    Emily Orley: “Articulating Place: Writing & Remembering”

    Lou Wilson: “Staging the city: Reality and Artifice in wilson + wilson’s production of Mapping the Edge”

In between:

3) LUNCH AND PRIVATE VIEW OF EXHIBITION (at the Sherwell Centre, University of Plymouth)

    “Bedding the City: Oreet Ashery's Site-Specific Performances”

Afternoon:

4) KEYNOTE SESSION 2:

    Baz Kershaw: "Savouring the hidden cities: on zoos and human hopes"

    Lee Miller & Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley: “How do you hide a city? A performed paper, one that might, quite possibly, involve workshop elements as we all try to find the best way^*.

    Steven Barfield: “The Practices of Re-markable Life: Performing the City as Psychogeography”

5) Parallel panel session 2:

    PLYMOUTH PANEL:

    Mathew Emmett: "Situation mapping & time spatialisation"

    Rachel Sweeney: “SkinCity: a performative paper”

    Fort Reasoning (Simon Coates, Alec Drew, Zoë Heron and Lawrence Tribe): “Streetwares: On hidden singularities in multiple space”

    OR

    WALKING PANEL:

    Fiona Bannon: “Small Acts of Desire on Foot”

    Hilary Ramsden: “A Walk Around the Block – The Choreography of Everyday Place-making”

    walkwalkwalk (Gail Burton, Clare Qualmann and Serena Korda): “Stories from the Exeter Archive”

6) Parallel panel session 3:

    WRITING ON THE CITY PANEL:

    Carl Lavery: “Revealing the Void: Cave Art in Lancaster Today”

    David Ashford: “Insurrection in Alphabet-City”

    Catherine Rees: “Theatrical Topographies: The Performance of Mural Painting in Twenty-First century Belfast”

    OR

    PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES PANEL:

    James Utz: “The City as Story-machine: Forced Entertainment and Situationist Psychogeography”

    Kaspar Wimberley: “Homezone”

    Mark Greenwood: “Free Cell, Solitaire, Golf and Pyramids”

7) KEYNOTE SESSION 3:

    Mike Pearson: “‘Who are you looking at?’: performance, temporalities, and the city”