‘A promising enterprise...charming anecdotes, beautiful images and engaging texts.'
Frankfurter Rundschau, 12th Dec 2001

Commissioned by Theatre at Dartington College of Arts and developed for the Plateaux Festival 2001 during a residency at Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt.

Carrying with them everything they own three suspicious foreigners arrive in a new place. Your place. Asking for your hospitality because - ‘it's a harsh world out there and nothing is worth more than a little kindness to strangers' - they proceed to map and learn the territory, to name the landscape and to make this place a home.

Land Marked is a low-tech, but highly atmospheric performance which shifts between the genres of Live Art, Choreographic theater and storytelling. The piece is performed in three languages simultaneously (German/Italian, English, Norwegian) and still remains highly accessible to a wide range of audiences. Each performance of Land Marked includes text and images which have been researched from the community in which the performance takes place - local histories, sites and sounds gathered from the village-town-city.

On a blank piece of 4m square paper, the performers work with pens, domestic lights and a ghetto blaster each to construct and reconstruct a multi-dimensional, living map. Land Marked addresses the manipulation of territory, the circulation of power and the patrolling of border lines - from the micro level of the family to the macro level of nations. Heimat, hjem, home.

Collaborators:

Paula Crutchlow, John Levack Drever, Heiko Fischer, Henning Hegland, Cat Radford. With video by Volkhardt Müller.