How are we to represent the past? I call this a question of historiography, but I am by no means only interested in writing. Here are some themes

- non-representational forms rooted in real time event and process
- hybrid genres/hybrid forms
- deep mapping
- hence ~ theatre/archaeology - the performative
- 'fields' not objects or sites – relational thinking
- the question of media
- the implications of current conceptual, installation and performance art
- non-identity and anti-narrative (cf Adorno and Benjamin)

- overall issue – design

Since 1993 I have been fortunate in working with two great artistic talents – Mike Pearson and Cliff McLucas, art directors of the site specific theatre company >>Brith Gof. They have taken my work into fields I could never have dreamed.

>>performed lectures

>>three rooms
>>Sicily - archaeological moments
(two Metamedia projects)

publication

Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology
Routledge, 1991

Archaeology and the forms of history
in I. Hodder, M. Shanks, Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last and Gavin Lucas (eds), Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past
London, Routledge, 1995

Photography and the archaeological image
in B. Molyneaux (ed), The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology
London, Routledge, 1997

Performing a visit: archaeologies of the contemporary past
with Mike Pearson
Performance Research 2: 42-60 (1996)

Art and the Greek City State: An Interpretive Archaeology
Cambridge University Press, 1999

Theatre/Archaeology
with Mike Pearson
Routledge, 2001

Three landscapes: a report on a year of experimental research at Stanford 2000/2001
with Clifford McLucas and Dorian Llywelyn
forthcoming

Three rooms: archaeology and performance
Journal of Social Archaeology
forthcoming