“Marking Time: Performance”, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city — Cardiff. In a series of five itineraries, it visits fifty sites where significant events occurred, setting performances within local topographical and social contexts, and in relation to a specific architecture and polity. These sites — from disused factories to scenes of crime, from auditoria to film sets — it regards as landmarks in the conception of a history of performance.
“Marking Time” uses performance and places as a means to reflect on the character of the city itself — its history, its fabric and make-up, its cultural ecology and its changing nature. Weaving together personal recollections, dramatic scripts, archival records and documentary photographs, it suggests a new model for studying and for making performance...for other artistic practices...for other cities.
