Landscape and Environment Programme Conference 2009 at Aberystwyth University, UK.

Landscape and performance, performance in landscape, performance about landscape, performance as landscape, landscape as performance…

Site-specific events, walking projects, land art, environmental activism, traditional customs, mediated visits, guided tours, leisure activities…

Phenomenology, performativity, non-representational theory, mobility, dwelling, embodiment, dynamism, affect…

Landscape and environment are currently of compelling cultural significance: as fields of scholarly research, sites of artistic endeavour and arenas of public concern. As both imaginative representations and material realities, they are the site of negotiation for the expression of complex ideas and feelings – about beauty, belonging, access to resources, relations with nature, the past and the future, making sense of the world and people's place in it.

This four-day trans-disciplinary conference attends to the manifold and diverse relationships – actual and potential – between landscape, environment and performance; it draws together artists, practitioners and academics from such fields as geography, archaeology, anthropology, performance, music and dance studies, media studies, museology, cultural and environmental policy, folklore studies, art history.