Taking place: some reflections on site, performance and community

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Notes

1. For an elaboration of this tension with regard to site-specific performance see Pearson and Shanks (2001, p. 23). Interestingly, in drama education specifically, both ‘teacher’ and ‘receiver’ could be considered as extraneous to the site.

2. See, for example, ‘I argue that Augé's ethnology of supermodernity results in a rather partial account of these sites, that he overstates the novelty of contemporary experiences of these spaces, and that he fails to acknowledge the heterogeneity and materiality of the social networks bound up with the production of non-places/places’ (Merriman, 2004, p. 145).

3. For a further example of such work, see the fascinating work of Wrights and Sites and their mis-guides: www.mis-guide.com.