ABSTRACT

This essay discusses landscape performance as the practice of making sense of landscape in the context of the author’s own artistic practice and performance philosophy. Drawing from the performative turn in cultural geography – including thinkers like Tim Ingold – the chapter frames landscape performance practices as attending to more-than-geographical aspects of landscape via an expanded understanding of it as subjective, experiential and temporal. The chapter shares extracts of three texts that the author developed through three different landscapes performance projects: The Sea, Lies Open (2015), Time Passes (2017) and Town Hall Meeting of the Air (2018). As a collection, the texts represent a performance writing practice that operates through performative engagements with place. Each extract attempts an enactment of particular landscape philosophies as read in selected philosophical texts or texts which the projects read “as philosophy”, whether or not they are conventionally categorised as such.