Mike Pearson died last week. He was a performance artist, theatre director, theorist and philosopher, scholar and teacher. And, as composer John Hardy said, Mike collaborated and connected – visual design, architectural stagecraft, poets, playwrights, composers, experimental jazz musicians, dancers, disability & gender specialists, comics, community art conveners, museum curators, traditional Japanese theatre performers, Patagonian farmers,…
alternative archaeology
The Other Acropolis Project
Yannis Hamilakis An ancient architectural fragment from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis with an 1805 inscription in Ottoman Arabic (Photo by Fotis Ifantidis; cf. Paton 1927: 7-72; Hamilakis 2007: 98-99). During the course of a series of studies on the social and political lives of ruins in Greece (cf. Hamilakis 2007), I was, inevitably, often…
‘Most Haunted Live: Pirates’ Curse’. An Archaeology of Haunted Houses?
‘Most Haunted Live: Pirates’ Curse’ was filmed in Bristol and broadcast live at 9pm-12am on the 5th, 6th and 7th of May 2007 on UK Living. The Most Haunted series is a popular one on digital television and makes use of a fairly simple format. For the regular shows, a group comprising presenters, film crew…
Archaeology for all!
For nearly half a century, Erich von Däniken has been developing his account of human history. The fantastic thesis he has been suggesting is that extraterrestrials have been visiting our planet during various periods in the past. And that there is evidence, often archaeological evidence, to prove it. Whereas most academic archaeologist tend to write…