Performance and ethics are very different processes, but both can be seen as desires for change, and as relational. Performance is relational through time, through images, through direct bodily encounters, through the senses and a physical closeness to another being, entity or landscape....
Wallace Heim asked six people to come up with a question about climate change and performance. We then gave that question to another of the six to answer. The six were Dan Gretton, Clare Patey, João André da Rocha, Paul Heritage, Wallace Heim and Mojisola Adebayo....
Metaphors are a way of conceptualising, critiquing and transforming the world. They can make new forms of knowledge possible and can be seen as rooted in bodily experience. Metaphors also can act as hidden forms of ideology. The latent metaphors around sustainability tend to emphasise...
The first international trans-disciplinary conference / performance event to explore ecology and performance was BETWEEN NATURE at Lancaster University in 2000. It was co-curated by Wallace Heim in the Philosophy Department with colleagues in the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Theatre...
Here. Now. These are the imperatives of performance. This is an exhibition of transformations. A performed work of art is a process through which something is transformed, some alteration is made during that live, transient experience. What may be changed is not so easily named....
Institute for the Practice of Art & Dissent at Home and Spiderweb Tapestry In response to the poverty of language around sustainability, Wallace Heim asked artists, scientists, activists and cultural commentators to suggest a metaphor for sustainability. ...