PACING THE COMMONS

Performance intervention on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.

As a lament and meditation on the enclosures act of the 16th century, I embodied the character of Dick Slee’s Hare and paced what is left of common land on Cannock Chase.

I was filmed by a local drone flyer, who didn’t know my route beforehand, and who I met through an open call on local networks. This act was a game of cat and mouse between myself embodying a folk myth, and technology represented by the drone. This works as a metaphor for the way ancient folk traditions have to find new ways of being and existing in the face of technological advancement.