Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:

• What are the principle signifiers of theatrical presence?
• How is presence achieved through theatrical performance?
• What makes a memory come alive and live again?
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The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as cultural, by others as an independent domain, or even as a powerful process of exchange between the human and the other-than-human . The four parts of the volume reflect these different understandings of nature and performance. Informed by psychoanalysis and cultural materialism, contributors to the first part, Spectacle: Landscape and Subjectivity, look at ways in which particular social and scientific experiments, theatre and film productions and photography...