Twenty years ago we opened a dialogue and collaboration through the theatre company Brith Gof, of which Mike was the founding artistic director. As Pearson|Shanks we bring together performance art and archaeology through shared interests: forms of (re)collection-the gatherings of memory practices; and site and locale-treated as multitemporal articulations, where different events and times endure and come together in the material forms of inhabited places, in the traces and remains of the past in the present.Our hybrid practice around archaeologies of the contemporary past has involved fieldwork and encounter, performed work on a large and small scale, media experimentation in documentation and representation, curated itinerant colloquia, research and authoring through sites and landscapes in northern Europe (Wales, northern England, and the Scottish borders), the Mediterranean (Sicily and the world of the ancient Greek city state), California, and the online world Second Life.We define this theatre/archaeology as the re-articulation of fragments of the past as real time event (Pearson and Shanks 2001). We maintain that performance is dynamic, creative, constitutive design practice that offers fertile and liberating means of addressing some key contemporary concerns regarding the significance of the material past to the present in that vast culture industry of heritage, as well as in negotiations around personal and community identity, and particularly regarding site and landscape. Concomitantly we hold that archaeological practice is a paradigm of inscription, documentation, (re)mediation, and (re)presentation of site and performance.