Visualising TAG
Visualising Words: archaeological narrative through poetry, image & performance Session organisers: Erin Kavanagh [Independent] geomythkavanagh@gmail.com & Kim Biddulph [Schools Prehistory & Archaeology] kim@schoolsprehistory.co.uk “Narratives do not always have to be presented in a purely linear sequential form…” (Pluciennik, 1999) Building on the Tyrannical Tales session at TAG 2015 in Bradford, this session explores non-traditional narrative forms within archaeology; such
Art'chaeology in situ
One wet and windy December day I took a walk along the Gower, in search of raised beaches. Instead I found that an intangible artist had gone long before me, leaving behind sculptures made from stone. On the face of it many people will not see the world spiralling past, their heads in the sand, eyes closed to the approaching tide. (#Tanka) A golden eye swam in seas of stone - holding a tale we can barely see. Even time can be punctuated, a grammar of geology. (Sometimes heart
