ABSTRACT
This afterword summates the findings of a reflection on a public art work, the Izithombe 2094 project, which investigated how theatre and performance as a spatial practice might serve knowledges of the spatial practices that make city places. These are city places in Doreen Massey’s sense of ‘spatio-temporal events’, emergent and relationally constructed (2005: 130). The afterword makes five points: theatre and performance and everyday practices have a resonance between them constructive for knowledge investigation and communication; using theatre and performance as a research method is creative as well investigative; theatre and performance serves as an agonistic synthesising tool for research; theatre and performance communicate affect as well as meaning and, lastly; that this process of affectual engagement generates a self-awareness of the individual’s role in the becoming of cities.
