It Happened Here evaluation - Geffrye Museum

Project evaluation on the 'LaTour de Geffrye' performance, part of the It Happened Here site/heritage performance project

Performing the archive: reflections from an archive-aware performance process

A paper exploring the physical, creative and ethical ramifications of using a specific archive for the purposes of creating performances. Colliding Derrida's Freudian impressions with Bourriaud's Semionautical navigations to supply a route for archival transformation and return, refracted through two Undergraduate processes and a nineteenth century Music Hall

LaTour de Geffrye

Documented script of a promenade performance/performed tour of The Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, Hackney delivered on 25th July, 2009 as part of the heritage performance/site-specific performance project, "It Happened Here" (2009 -10). The process facilitated performances and tours by 12 - 19 year old residents of Hackney to develop a methodology capable of engaging young people in heritage sites and transfering the skills to become producers of their own creative work delivered to members of the public. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Hackney Heritage Built Environment Partnership

Topological Quantum Field Theory for Calabi-Yau threefolds and G_2 manifolds

We introduce a homology theory whose Euler characteristics counts ASD bundles over four dimensional co-associative submanifolds in (almost) G_2 manifolds. As a TQFT, in relative situations, we have the Fukaya-Floer category of Lagrangians intersection in the moduli space of special Lagrangian submanifolds in CY threefolds.Comment: 14 pages. To appear in Adv. Theor. Math. Phy

Geometric Aspects of Mirror Symmetry (with SYZ for Rigid CY manifolds)

In this article we discuss the geometry of moduli spaces of (1) flat bundles over special Lagrangian submanifolds and (2) deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills bundles over complex submanifolds in Calabi-Yau manifolds. These moduli spaces reflect the geometry of the Calabi-Yau itself like a mirror. Strominger, Yau and Zaslow conjecture that the mirror Calabi-Yau manifold is such a moduli space and they argue that the mirror symmetry duality is a Fourier-Mukai transformation. We review various aspects of the mirror symmetry conjecture and discuss a geometric approach in proving it. The existence of rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds poses a serious challenge to the conjecture. The proposed mirror partners for them are higher dimensional generalized Calabi-Yau manifolds. For example, the mirror partner for a certain K3 surface is a cubic fourfold and its Fano variety of lines is birational to the Hilbert scheme of two points on the K3. This hyperkahler manifold can be interpreted as the SYZ mirror of the K3 by considering singular special Lagrangian tori. We also compare the geometries between a CY and its associated generalized CY. In particular we present a new construction of Lagrangian submanifolds.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians 2001, 47 page