THE THINGMOUNT WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONSERVATION A NEAR AND FAR MAP SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE by Hester Reeve TWP 99-08 ISSN: 1362 - 7066 (Print) ISSN: 1474 - 256X (On-line) Published by: Department of Philosophy. Lancaster University. Furness College. Lancaster LA14YCJ. UK Tel: 0152465201 ; fax: 01524592503 e-mail:
[email protected] THE THINGMOUNT WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONSERV A TION A NEAR AND FAR MAP SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE by Hester Reeve [This performance was presented at a conference on Aesthetic Knowledge and a Sense of Place held at Lancaster University, 15-16 May 1998] TWP 99-08 Hester Reeve ISSN 1362- 7066 A Near and Far Map was performed by Hester Reeve, Saturday 16th 5:30pm Hester Reeve is a fine artist (graduating from a joint degree at Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) who recently completed an MA in Values and the Environment at Lancaster University Philosophy Department. Her main medium of communication is through live 'embodied' ideas. She has been showing these performance works internationally over the past ten years mainly in site-specific locations. Since 1992, when the artist worked with the environmental movement in the Czech Republic, Reeve's work has engaged with revealing and challenging the ways in which we 'know' and relate to 'nature'. Her work methodology is to situate her exploration and the resulting 'event of thought' within liminality (i.e. the state of being on the threshold; a no man's land where the 'voice' desires to climb out of cultural patterns).