Wallace is one of the artists working with Rachel Jacobs on ‘When the Future Comes’, investigating how, with a changing climate, the future is perceived across five places in England. In Cumbria, we devised an experience for an invited group of people to ‘think with a...
Wallace’s essay, ‘Theatre, conflict, nature’ for the Green Letters journal Vol 20:2016, is included in the Routledge book publication, Performance and Ecology. What Can Theatre Do? (2018; paperback 2020). From the abstract: 'Human conflict is a raw material for theatre, and theatre is co-determinant with how conflict is known. Conflicts that...
With Mark Toogood (Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Central Lancashire) and Claire Waterton (Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University), Wallace researched the work of women scientists at the Freshwater Biological Association, Far Sawrey, Cumbria in the mid-20th Century. We published ‘Women Scientists and the Freshwater Biological...
[caption id="attachment_1040" align="alignright" width="300"] HOMELAND by Platform 1993[/caption] 'To come into conversation can be a disturbing thing, exposing, altering and aesthetic. How the conversation is made can conduct the speakers in an unknown direction ...
With Prof Pauline Phemister and Revd Dr Harriet Harris, MBE, from Edinburgh University and Prof Sarah Buie from Clark University, Mass., she has organised and facilitated a series of Councils on the Uncertain Human Future, on the climate emergencies, for Edinburgh University. The Council on the...
'The question of whether a place can learn requires keeping the subject who learns, but proposes another realm of capacity, the relational field, which is intangible, but not abstract. The question draws attention, too, towards site-based performance that is concerned with environmental change, with place, with...