Events
Jane Rendell & Mike PearsonKeeper
07 May - 07 May 2013
6 – 8 pm Tuesday 7 May 2013
Jane Rendell and performance artist Mike Pearson will read from their work on childhood, landscape and memory.
Mike Pearson studied archaeology in UniversityCollege, Cardiff(1968–71). He was a member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof (1981–97). He continues to make performance as a solo artist, in collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes (1997–present) and for National Theatre Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks of Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (2006), Site-specific Performance (2010) and MIckery Theater: an imperfect archaeology (2011). He is currently Professor of Performance Studies and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University.
Carrlands: http://www.carrlands.org.uk
Warplands:http://www.landscape.ac.uk/landscape/impactfellowship/peforminggeographieswarplands/warplands.aspx
Mike will read from extracts from A Death in the Family (1992); Bubbling Tom (2000) and Neither here nor there (2009).
Jane will read from ‘The Welsh Dresser’, Site-Writing, (2010).
