ABSTRACT
Landscapes are both settings and scenes of activities and events. Landscapes may be composed of human bodies, buildings and fences, gardens and public spaces, or regions and ecological systems. These elements occupy different areal scales, but they also operate within different temporal scales. A human body exists for a certain lifetime, but cultural ideas develop over historical time, while ecological systems and landforms move slowly in geological time. Therefore understanding landscapes through their constitutive elements requires a multi-scalar perspective. Thinking about landscapes of mobility forces to consider linkages and vector flows, taking into account larger contexts within which singular and multiple human bodies move, respond, exchange, and cohere. An approach to such landscapes also challenges people to acknowledge the means by which social interactions, reattachments and engagements are rendered visible and legitimate. Performance theory attends to the changing relationships between bodies, and between bodies and sites, attending to those interactions by contextualizing them within specific times, spaces and structures.
