approaches

	a literary approach � reading into the work (author, genre, style, character, motivation  plot �)
	anthropology and cultural location
	historical and social context
	intellectual context (eg philosophy, conceptions of what it is to be human �)
	archaeology and a sensitivity to materiality
	a comparative perspective �
	not (necessarily) the assertion of identity
	but frictions generating insight
	and one that uses the work as a resource in exploring the cultural imaginary - where does the work take us?

located bodies � five the performing/performed body

the performance of everyday life

	the metaphor of performance

performance � some concepts

	staging and mis-en-sc�ne
	props and costume
	gesture
	posture
	habitus � habit, custom, acquired abilities and faculties
	techniques of the body
	proxemics
	scale
	reach
	haptics

the performing body

	what is its location, its place?
	� a designed and dynamic �staging�,  saturated with significances
	� a continuity through architecture, environment, material goods and physical bodies

performativity and identity

	the way you say something and the act of saying may mean as much as what is said
	identity (for example gender) is not something inherent or intrinsic to a person
	identity is what emerges from reiterated action
	with action conceived as the performance of selfhood
	a notion of performativity and gender associated with Judith Butler