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Politics of the landscape and performance methods

Argyropoulou, Gigi LU orcid (2025) In Performance Research 30(4).
Abstract
This article seeks to propose a politics of landscape as a way to recognise emergent practices, methods and dramaturgies embedded in landscapes we inhabit. Being in and On Land/scapes means recognizing ways of making that challenge the means of domination, and to institute modes of doing and thinking that recognize dependencies. This article seeks to explore: What are the political implications and the emergent methods for performance making and curating if we recognize that everything – including rocks, landfills and spools of thread – are alive in the landscape? How such modes of curating, composition and dramaturgy might operate within multilayered and entangled landscapes? What might the constantly present and yet always blurring... (More)
This article seeks to propose a politics of landscape as a way to recognise emergent practices, methods and dramaturgies embedded in landscapes we inhabit. Being in and On Land/scapes means recognizing ways of making that challenge the means of domination, and to institute modes of doing and thinking that recognize dependencies. This article seeks to explore: What are the political implications and the emergent methods for performance making and curating if we recognize that everything – including rocks, landfills and spools of thread – are alive in the landscape? How such modes of curating, composition and dramaturgy might operate within multilayered and entangled landscapes? What might the constantly present and yet always blurring politics of a landscape?

Seeking to elaborate on the tension between scaped with the scopic, looking and shaping, this article examines performance making in relation to interconnected that socio-political, cultural and ecological landscapes. In current times of geopolitical, ecological and social crisis seeks to examine the possible role of performance in offering both ways of looking and shaping recognising at the same time the ways it is always shaped by sociopolitical and cultural land/scapes. In what ways revealing and working with the politics of the landscape might shape specific methods of curating and making - and even being in the world - that offer other ways to imagine and practice being with the land - shaping and being shaped. (Less)
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Taylor & Francis
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