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Saturday 9 November 2013. ‘Marking Time: A journey into Cardiff’s performance past’ (Figure 6.1). As a contribution to Chapter Arts Centre’s Experimentica 2013 performance festival, Mike Pearson and Heike Roms guide a coach trip to former sites of performance in the city. Drawing on tattered documents, fading photographs and vague memories the trip
Mike Pearson and George Auchterlonie evoking Transitions’s Dracula’s Castle 1972; as part of Mike Pearson and Heike Roms, Marking Time: A journey into Cardiff’s performance past, Cardiff, 9 November 2014. Photo by Warren Orchard
aims to recover and evoke performance work of the 1960s and 1970s, and to celebrate its role in Cardiff’s cultural life. It features presentations, participatory moments and re-enactments, and encounters with artists and eyewitnesses. Six stops and six short journeys in between, with 50 passengers on board.
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Pearson, M., Roms, H. (2014). Performing Cardiff: Six Approaches to a City and Its Performance Pasts. In: Whybrow, N. (eds) Performing Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455697_7
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