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Record W1625914040 · doi:10.3138/ctr.163.012

Matter Matters: Performing a Stone in the Woods

2015· article· en· W1625914040 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mariah Horner, Grahame Renyk

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Theatre Review · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsForegroundingConversationVisual artsArtArt historyHistoryAestheticsSociologyLiterature

Abstract

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Abstract: A conversation between an emerging theatre artist (Mariah Horner) and a Queen’s University professor (Grahame Renyk), this article analyzes Stones in the Woods, a production mounted in 2014 by Mariah’s historical and site-specific company, the Cellar Door Project. The production was performed around a stone in a park that was originally a part of Kingston’s nineteenth-century observatory. Drawing inspiration from thing theory (as discussed in Performing Objects and Theatrical Things, edited by Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy) and Pierre Nora’s work on lieux de mémoire, Mariah and Grahame discuss how the performance treats the stone as an actant, equal in status to the human actors. By foregrounding the stone in its “thingness,” the performance highlights its material longevity and reveals its presence in actor networks past, present, and since. Clear threads are tied from the past, through the stories in between, and into the present, reconnecting audiences with a sense of historical continuum at the site. Distinguishing the Cellar Door Project’s work as a rematerialization rather than a reanimation of history, Mariah and Grahame discover that this kind of work may be a more effective approach than re-enactment for connecting ourselves with those who came before.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.185
Threshold uncertainty score0.367

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0070.018
Scholarly communication0.0080.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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