Alone but Together: Eminent Performance on the Appalachian Trail

Abstract

This is an ethnographic account of long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail. The essay argues that, like much performance art, long-distance hiking is best viewed as an eminent performance that does not seek to point to something beyond itself as much as it points to the material conditions of its own making. The insights gained from experiences on the trail reframe ongoing questions of presence and absence in performance scholarship as questions about transcendent and eminent performance aesthetics.

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