Performing Landscape as Autotopographical Exercise

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Notes

 1. This text is a development of a paper presented at Performance Studies International conference #15 in Zagreb 14–28 June 2009.

 2. Jennifer Gonzalez, ‘Autotopographies’, in Gabriel Brahm, Jr and Mark Driscoll (eds), Prosthetic Territories: Politics and Hypertechnologies (San Francisco: West View Press, 1995), pp. 133–50.

 3. Pauli Tapani Karjalainen, ‘Topobiografinen paikan tulkinta’ (Topobiographical Interpretation of Place), in Seppo Knuuttila, Pekka Laaksonen and Virpi Kaukio (eds), Paikka: eletty, kuviteltu, kerrottu (Place: Lived, Imagined, Told) (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006), pp. 83–92.

 4. A discussion on the relationship between a performance practice and the presentation of the documentation as an installation related to a site-specific sound project that involved walking can be found in Arlander, ‘Performing Landscape – Acting Text’, Nordic Theatre Studies, 15 (2003), 60–76.

 6. Ibid., p. 163.

 5. Mieke Bal, ‘Autotopography – Louis Bourgeois as Builder’, in Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith (eds), Interfaces – Women/Autobiography/Image/Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), pp. 163–185 (p. 163).

 7. Topography is defined for example as ‘description of all the surface features, natural and artificial, of a particular region; all such surface features of a region; the science of drawing maps and/or diagrams which represents these features; topographic surveying’. New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language (Danbury, CT: Lexicon Publications Inc., 1992), p. 1041.

 8. Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002).

 9. See for example Luis Carlos Sotelo, ‘Looking Backwards to Walk Forward: Walking, Collective Memory and the Site of the Intercultural in Site-Specific Performance’, Performance Research, 15 (Winter 2010), 59–69.

10. Angela Piccini and Caroline Rye, ‘Of Fevered Archives and the Quest for Total Documentation’, in Ludivine Allegue, Simon Jones, Baz Kershaw and Angela Piccini (eds), Practice-as-Research in Performance and Screen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. 35–49.

11. Secret Garden 1–2 and Sitting on a Birch are available through the AV-archive, the Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, <http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/artists/annette-arlander_en/>; Sitting on a Birch – My Fiftieth Year (2006) <http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/sitting-on-a-birch/>; Secret Garden 1 + 2 (2006) <http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/secret-garden-1/> and Year of the Dog in Kalvola – Calendar (2007) <http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/year-of-the-dog-in-kalvola-calendar-12/> [accessed 1 February 2012].

12. I have described some of these works briefly in Annette Arlander, ‘Performing with Trees: Landscape and Artistic Research’, in John Freeman, Blood, Sweat & Theory: Research through Practice in Performance (London: Libri Publishing, 2010), pp. 158–176.

13. For an overview, see the list of works in the AV-archive, <http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/artists/annette-arlander_en/> [accessed 1 February 2012].

14. Malcolm Andrews, Landscape and Western Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 7.

15. Amelia Jones, Self/Image: Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject (London & New York: Routledge, 2006) p. xvii.

16. Ibid., p. xvii.

18. Ibid., p. 134.

17. Gonzalez, ‘Autotopographies’, p. 133.

19. Ibid., p. 134.

20. Ibid., p. 140.

21. Ibid., p. 145.

22. Ibid., p. 147.

23. Secret Garden 1–2 and Sitting on a Birch were first displayed in the exhibition Year of the Rooster (2006), <http://www.harakka.fi/arlander/kukonvuosi/> [accessed 1 February 2012). Year of the Dog in Kalvola – Calendar was presented for the first time in the exhibition Three Pine Trees in the Year of the Dog 2006 (2007), <http://www.harakka.fi/arlander/kolme_mantya/three_pine_trees.html> [accessed 1 February 2012].

25. Ibid., p. 90.

24. Deirdre Heddon, Autobiography and Performance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

26. Ibid., p. 91.

27. Ibid., p. 92.

28. Deirdre Heddon, ‘Autotopography: Graffiti, Landscape & Selves', Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2.3 (Summer 2002), <http://reconstruction.eserver.org/023/heddon.htm> [accessed 1 February 2012].

29. Ibid.

30. Andreas Huyssen, ‘Trauma and Memory: A New Imaginary of Temporality', in World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed. by J. Bennett and R. Kennedy (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 16–29.

31. Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (New York: The New Press, 1997), p.34.

32. Heddon, Autobiography and Performance, pp. 95–6.

33. Pauli Tapani Karjalainen, ‘On Geobiography’, in Virve Sarapik and Kadri Tüür (eds), Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics III (Tartu: Estonian Literary Museum, 2003), pp 87–92 (p. 87).

34. Ibid., p. 88.

35. Karjalainen, ‘Topobiografinen paikan tulkinta’ (Topobiographical Interpretation of Place), pp. 83–92.

36. Ibid., pp. 83–4.