Deirdre Heddon

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Deirdre Heddon (born 1969), is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Glasgow (UK). She is a practice-based researcher and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as academic monographs and book-chapters. Her focus of interest is in autobiographical performance, site-specific performance and walking art.

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Career

Heddon is the author of multiple books, book chapters and journal articles. She authored Autobiography and Performance, and co-author of Devising Performance: A Critical History (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). [1] [2] Her edited collection, Histories and Practices of Live Art, co-edited with Jennie Klein, was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan. [3]

Heddon has written a number of texts about walking and performance, and is connected with the Walking Artists Network. [4] She contributed a chapter to Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts, [5] and has written a number of articles about walking and performance, including, ‘Walking and Friendship’ (2012); [6] Walking Women: Interviews with Artists on the Move; [7] Women Walking: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility (2012), with Cathy Turner; [8] and The Horizon of Sound: Soliciting the Earwitness (2010). [9] She also co-edited a themed edition of RIDE: A Journal of Applied Drama, which focused on applied theatre and environmentalism (2012). Heddon is co-editing a newly launched series for Palgrave Macmillan, Performing Landscapes, for which she is writing Performing Landscapes: Forests.

Practice-based Research

Heddon undertakes practice-based research, much of it in relation to walking. Her project, Walking Interconnections, extends her interest in walking and environmentalism to questions around disability as well. [10] With Misha Myers she created The Walking Library (2012-ongoing), [11] an artwork and research project that 'brings libraries into the landscape through site-specific walks.' [4] :287 In recognition of her fortieth birthday she devised 40 Walks, for which she organised forty walks with forty different people. [12]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre (19 November 2007). Autobiography and Performance: Performing Selves. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN   9781137163561.
  2. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre; Milling, Jane (12 October 2015). Devising Performance: A Critical History, 2nd Edition. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9781137426772.
  3. ↑ "Histories and Practices of Live Art - Deirdre Heddon|Jennie Klein - Palgrave Higher Education". He.palgrave.com. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 Morris, Blake (2 September 2017). "The Walking Library : relating the landscape". Green Letters. 21 (3): 287–299. doi:10.1080/14688417.2017.1384322. ISSN   1468-8417. S2CID   148665485.
  5. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre, 1969- (2009). Walking, writing and performance : autobiographical texts. Lavery, Carl, 1969-, Smith, Phil, 1956-, Mock, Roberta. Bristol: Intellect Books. ISBN   9781841503370. OCLC   457057834.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Walking & Friendship" (PDF). Eprints.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15(4), pp. 14-22" (PDF). Eprints.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  8. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre; Turner, Cathy (May 2012). "Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility - Enlighten: Publications". Contemporary Theatre Review. 22 (2): 224–236. doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741. S2CID   143812276 . Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness - Enlighten: Publications". Eprints.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Audio Play – 'Going for a Walk'". Walking Interconnections. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  11. ↑ Heddon, Deirdre; Myers, Misha (2017). "The walking library: mobilising books, places, readers and reading" . Performance Research. 22: 32–48. doi:10.1080/13528165.2017.1285560. ISSN   1352-8165. S2CID   191999043.
  12. ↑ "40 Walks Blog | Walking". 40walks.wordpress.com. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
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