<i>Mapping the Moment</i>: a spatio-temporal interface for studying performance culture, Nottingham, 1857–1867

Robinson, Jo; Priestnall, Gary; Tyler-Jones, Richard; Burgess, Robin

doi:10.3366/ijhac.2011.0027

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“…The work of scholars such as Ian Gregory, who have pioneered development in the field of Historical GIS (Gregory and Geddes, 2014), or Bodenhamer et al (2010), whose collection of essays The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship marked an important milestone in the disciplinary embedding of scholarship in this field, sit alongside that of a growing cohort of researchers and practitioners who are exploring the productive interface between space and place, memory and history and digital humanities practice. This is evident across a number of subject areas, including, most notably, film and cinema (Hallam and Roberts, 2014; Klenotic, 2011; Roberts, 2012a, 2012b; Verhoeven et al, 2009), but also literary studies (Cooper and Gregory, 2011; Cooper et al, 2015), popular music (Cohen, 2012; Long and Collins, 2012), theatre and performance (Robinson et al, 2011), architecture and the built environment (Speed, 2012), and psychogeography and artistic practice (McGarrigle, 2010), to cite just a handful of the emerging scholarship in this area.…”

Section: Digital Spatial Humanities and The Archivementioning

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Navigating the ‘archive city’

Roberts

2014

Convergence

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This article examines the idea of the ‘archive city’: a spatiotemporal construct oriented around the central metaphor of the ‘city as archive’. Surfing the cusp between the material and immaterial, the tangible and intangible, the embodied and virtual, the producer and consumer and – not least – the analogue and the digital, the archive city denotes a conceptualization of ‘archival space’ that straddles the material and symbolic city and which invites reflection on the ways cultural geographies of memory – in this case those specific to cities and other urban landscapes – are enfolded across the multi-sited and multilayered spaces of everyday urban practice. Reframing the ontological question of ‘what is the archive in the digital age?’ in terms of ‘where is the archive?’, in the first part of the article I survey the theoretical precincts of the archive city before moving on to discuss how we might conceive of a digital spatial humanities in which this more open and purposefully elusive conceptualization of the archive can productively inform debates and practices relating to urban cultural memory. The article then discusses two case studies, both of which map the cinematic geographies of cities: Liverpool in the north west of England and Bologna in Italy. The article ends with some concluding thoughts on the role of digital spatial humanities in urban-based cultural memory studies and the broader theoretical and practical implications this has in relation to digital and ‘open’ archival practices.

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Navigating the ‘archive city’

Roberts

2014

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“…Here we build from the substantial review of literature and practice undertaken by the authors of 'Experiencing the Digital World', who note the potential of digital experiences 'not only to open up heritage to new groups, but also to enable a restructuring of authority and the possibility for a more democratic engagement with history' (King et al 2016: 78). Second, we build on Robinson's previous work on the particular potential of digital platforms to most effectively capture and represent the interlinked data generated by the making and reception of theatrical performance, given the nature of theatre as a collaborative art form (see Robinson et al 2011, also Caplan 2016. Third, we draw on a model of what we term 'citizen scholarship' in arts and humanities research (Carletti 2016), which has enabled and supported meaningful and sustained engagement with the theatre's history and heritage by community volunteers.…”

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Our Theatre Royal Nottingham: co-creation and co-curation of a digital performance collection with citizen scholars

Robinson

Carletti

2019

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

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While the major theatre collections of universities and libraries in the UK, Europe and the USA have been long established, and companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company or Ballet Rambert hold their own extensive archives, the past decade has seen increasing attention paid to the need to support smaller theatres in preserving their own records. At the same time, new collaborative practices have emerged in the curation of heritage, often drawing on digital media and technologies: community archives, heritage crowdsourcing, community-university partnerships evidence this participatory turn. This article reflects on an ongoing collaboration with the Theatre Royal Nottingham, UK, and volunteer researchers from the city, to preserve, order and digitally curate the theatre's 150-plus year history. The project builds on the potential of digital technologies -both to enhance participation and engagement and to most effectively capture and represent the interlinked stories and memories mobilized in the making and reception of theatrical performance. In reflecting on the successes and challenges of the project, we develop a model of what we term 'citizen scholarship' in arts and humanities research, which has enabled and supported meaningful and sustained engagement with the theatre's archive and heritage by community volunteers.

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Congregations, Audiences, Actors: Religious Performance and the Individual in Mid-Nineteenth-century Nottingham

Robinson¹,

Sutherland²

2013

Performing Religion in Public

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Mapping the Moment: a spatio-temporal interface for studying performance culture, Nottingham, 1857–1867

Abstract: The Mapping the Moment: Performance Culture in Nottingham, 1857-67 project (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mapmoment)

Cited by 3 publications

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Navigating the ‘archive city’

Navigating the ‘archive city’

Our Theatre Royal Nottingham: co-creation and co-curation of a digital performance collection with citizen scholars

Congregations, Audiences, Actors: Religious Performance and the Individual in Mid-Nineteenth-century Nottingham

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