This clip shows three separate pieces of performance using the same site in the Caer Llan woods, in and around the remains of an 18th Century quarry-worker's cottage
Site 6/Mossy stones
Ideas behind the work:
First piece
A group interpreted this as a site where man and 'nature' came into conflict.
They wrote their own sestina as a source for the work.
(CL1: the Caer Llan Sestina)
Second piece
The same site was used as a setting for filming an imagined past. This was
then played as a reflection in the window of the main house, half a mile away,
during the showings at the end of CL2. The reflection operated as a disruption
of the current country house, reminding the viewer of previous lives lived in
more rudimentary conditions close by and as an historical parallel to a scene
that took place on the adjacent lawn, a contemporary re-reading of issues of
gender and class prejudice (see
Appendix D: Ghost scene images).
(CL2: disrupting the landscape)
Third piece
The MA group interpreted the site temporally and spatially, as a vertical/
historical site of memory with suggested sounds, sentences and actions imagined
from different times in that place and from equivalent places elsewhere. (The group
incorporated their own histories by including Greek and Swiss/ Bernese languages).
(CL3: performing place)
