EVENTS
Performances
- >>Put your pen down: the performative experience as a vehicle for alternative archaeological interpretation
Friday 17 December, 15.30, Will's Courtyard
Red Earth’s performance work in prehistoric landscapes can be contextualised as an experiential, phenomenological exercise, stimulating new interpretations of archaeological research materials and possibly offering an insight into the mindset of our predecessors, with implications affecting our analysis and assessment of prehistoric cultural mores.
In order to illustrate this idea, Red Earth co-director Simon Pascoe invites delegates to take part in a participatory performative experience, taking place outdoors and in response to a selected location. Unlike a similar public experiment at WAC in Dublin, artist and delegates will create this event together.
Exhibitions and screenings
- >>A picture is worth a thousand words: images of archaeological practice, past and present
This poster session will be on display in the Great Hall throughout the conference. Contributors will be available during the afternoon of Friday 17 December to discuss their pictures. - >> Personal Histories 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Oral histories produced by the Personal-Histories Project, (contact Pamela Jane Smith), will be screened continuously throughout the conference
Download full-size flyer here (PDF, opens in new window) - >> CASPAR Event: The Story of England
Friday 17 December, 17.30, Great Hall
Michael Wood will be speaking about the filming of The Story of England project which aired on the BBC this autumn. The programme traces the story of one place (Kibworth in Leicestershire) through the whole of English history, using archaeology, landscape, place names, medieval court rolls, Tudor wills and Hearth taxes, and so on, right down to modern industrial history, Poor Law archives, working class cultural history and oral reminiscences. A key feature of this local history project (which the BBC is now planning to do on a national scale through all their regions with educational outreach through BBC Learning) has been the involvement of the local people and the local schools in archaeology(digging supervised test pits), field walking, house histories and DNA, in addition to documentary research and oral history. - >> CASPAR Event: Screen Festival
The Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice of Archaeology (CASPAR) has scheduled an international festival of audio-visual archaeologies. This distributed festival will take place in Second Life, hosted by University of California Berkeley’s Department of Anthropology and will also be projected into a screening space at TAG 2010. Second Life is the online world created by Linden Labs and launched in 2003. Users interact with one another through avatars and build personas, buildings and landscapes through its 3D modelling tool. User-residents explore, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another. In archaeology, notable innovators include Michael Shanks and Ruth Tringham. Shanks has collaborated with artist Lynn Hershmann on the Life Squared project to investigate the future of the museum and animated archives. Tringham’s Okapi Island project uses Second Life to model reconstructions of Neolithic household archaeology, based on excavations at Çatalhöyük, to bring a wide range of users into interpretation processes and to disseminate archaeological knowledges. Utilising Second Life’s in-world projection functionality that allows us to ‘project’ video on to Second Life surfaces, this festival calls for short-form video submissions (10-minute maximum) for consideration. Organisers: CASPAR & students at UC Berkeley - >>A History of Stokes Croft in 100 Objects
Thurs 16 - Sun 19 December 2010, 15.00 - 19.00 daily
The Emporium, Stokes Croft, Bristol
In 2009/10 two archaeologists conducted a study of contemporary homelessness in Bristol. Working alongside homeless people, the project was unique and valuable in developing socially inclusive ways of doing archaeology and thinking about local heritage.
A History of Stokes Croft in 100 Objects is an interactive archaeological exhibition that includes maps, photographs, audio recordings, installations and interviews. Also showing is a short film about an archaeological excavation of Turbo Island, artefacts from the dig and an interpretation of the history of this small infamous tract of land.
Poster session
A poster session will be on display throughout the conference, in the Great Hall, with contributors present during the afternoon of Friday 17 December, if you would like to ask them any questions.
TAG party!
By popular demand, we are plased to confirm that TAG is going glam, with a glam rock band for the party: The GlamBusters. Get your sequins on and get ready to dance.
