Esther Pilkington
{{Short description|British performance artist}}
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Esther Pilkington is a British performance artist and researcher based in Hamburg, Germany. Pilkington, along with Daniel Ladnar, is a founding member of the performance collective Random People. Her work within the practice of walking art considers the role of the documented journey in performance and breaking the predominant character of immediacy in performance.{{Cite book|title=The Art of Being Many: Towards a New Theory and Practice of Gathering|last1=Schäfer|first1=Martin Jörg|last2=Tsianos|first2=Vassilis S.|publisher=Transcript Verlag|year=2016|isbn=978-3837633139|pages=122}}
Education
Pilkington received her PhD from Aberystwyth University, Wales, in 2011, her MA also from Aberystwyth University in Theatre, Film and Media Studies in 2007. She studied English and Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the undergraduate level at Frankfurt University, earning her degree in 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/de/lehrstuhl/vs/kulsoz/mitarbeiter/Pilkington/Biografisches/index.html|title=Biographies: Esther Pilkington|website=Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät|access-date=July 17, 2016}}
Selected works
- 2011 We Always Arrive In the Theatre on Foot: A walk to the theatre in sixteen steps and eighteen footnotes, Vienna, Austria{{Cite journal|last1=Pilkington|first1=Esther|last2=Nachbar|first2=Martin|date=2012|title=We Always Arrive in the Theatre on Foot: A walk to the theatre in sixteen steps and eighteen footnotes|journal=Performance Review: On Foot|volume=17|issue=2|pages=30–41|doi=10.1080/13528165.2012.671069|s2cid=193156771}}
- 2011 Vaasa in Luck, Platform, Finland{{Cite web|url=http://www.platform.fi/page/3/|title=Platform|website=www.platform.fi|access-date=2016-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817091703/http://www.platform.fi/page/3/|archive-date=2016-08-17|url-status=dead}}
- 2009 A Long Walk, Aberystwyth to Aldeburgh, UK{{Cite book|title=Performance, Transport and Mobility: Making Passage|last=Wilkie|first=Fiona|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2015|isbn=978-0-230-34315-3|location=Basingstoke, UK|pages=29–30}}
- 2005 The Sunny Beach Project, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria; Vienna, Austria and Ipswich, UK {{Cite web|url=http://intra.fdr.at/fdr/fdr09/www.fdr.at/de/programm/show/1829.html|title=Zerlegt und Verspielt / solarCity|date=October 15, 2010|website=Festival de Regionen: Programm|access-date=July 17, 2016}}
References
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Category:21st-century British women artists
Category:Alumni of Aberystwyth University
Category:British performance artists