s p i r i t e d n w y f u s
A four day (5 night) residential study lab
with Susan Schell
in the village and wooded valley of Abercych, South West Wales
4th - 7th December 2007 (arrival evening 3rd, depart morning 8th)
Cost: £250-£300 (inclusive of self-catering accommodation on a nearby farm)
More info/to book
stirling.steward@virgin.net
22 Nov 2007
6pm
The Foundry, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3AJ
The Aberystwyth-based Centre for Performance Research (CPR) celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2005. At its roots a theatre organisation devoted to training and the reflection of practice, the CPR organises workshops, festivals and symposia, publishes performance books and runs a multi-cultural performance resource centre. It was the Centre's intercultural approach to theatre which from very early on brought it into contact with a more expansive notion of performance, and it has since brought international performance artists such as Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Rachel Rosenthal to Wales.
The CPR's Artistic Director, Richard Gough, is a Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has dedicated the past thirty years to developing and exploring interdisciplinary, experimental performance work. He has curated numerous international performance projects and is general editor of the journal Performance Research.
Richard Gough will be in conversation about alternative approaches to teaching, archiving and publishing performance and on the role of internationalism for performance art in Wales.
Project: Heike Roms
www.performance-wales.org
Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion: with Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan, Tatsumi Orimoto
Curated by André Stitt
Preview: Friday 16 November 2007
Exhibition: Saturday 17 November 2007 – Sunday 13 January 2008
‘Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion’ brings together four pioneers of the performance genre with established practices that date back to the 1960s. The exhibition will explore elements of each artist’s practice in relation to the discourse that surrounds the documentation of performance art.
Performances:
Each of the artists will give a performance at Chapter during the opening weekend of the exhibition.
Tatsumi Orimoto and Ian Hinchliffe, Friday 16 November / 6-9pm
Alastair MacLennan and Stuart Brisley, Saturday 17 November
www.chapter.org
DARK VICTORY…
Helps celebrate the Death of Humanity. Drawing tactile BOSCH's Addiction Project to a final conclusion with ‘through the lens media' LIVEart, words and sound. Facilitating the answers to the notion of ADDICTION with its connotation of live fast, die young but of course leaving a beautiful corpse.
Whether Macbeth or Blade Runner, Mango or Pear, DARK VICTORY visualises ‘heroic' struggles and remembered choices, Embracing personal stumbling or taking an indulgent stroll in the forbidden forest, each soul [survivor] embraces their individual taste & reasoning in terms of Addiction...As they say ‘whatever floats that inner boat'.
With: Filmmakers – Photographers - Architects - Writers & a plethora of LIVE Performances - caught through the lens [entrapment neatly priced]
Sun 11/11/07 – Sun 09/12/07 / Open: daily Wed – Sat [2-7pm]
www.tactilebosch.org
Framework Social - down the social
a space for artists to meet and socialise
Tuesday 6th November
7pm / £2 entry
St.James Social Club, St.James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea
with work from artists Alex Duncan, Jonathan Anderson, Neil and Anna Barratt.
The next Cafe Artistique will be taking place in the main bar at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Monday 5 November, starting at 7.30pm.
The event is free and there is no need to book.
Leading the discussion will be performance artist Lucienne Cole who will introduce her work and talk about art in and with the public; and art as entertainment. Entertainment as opposed to...?
After the discussion there will be a performance by artists-in-residence Miranda Whall, Ashley Wallington and Tom Payne, who all live and work in Aberystwyth.
Friday 2 November 2007
with Framework
as part of Swansea Fringe Festival
Elysium Contemporary Art Space, 41 High Street, Swansea
Swansea's newest contemporary art space, Elysium Gallery, (41 High St., Swansea), will be hosting a Dylan Thomas Fringe Event this Friday 2nd November at 7pm where Cardiff based artists 'Mr and Mrs Clark' will be doing a live performance work and members of (Swansea's own) 'Framework' will be showing experimental & innovative live work, installation, intervention and process-led investigative work.
PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE: Works Past to Present
Research Event at University of Bristol Department of Drama
This dialogue will launch the three-year Great Western
Research project, "Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past", which
is based in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection's Live Art
Archives and Arnolfini Live's archives, partnered with Exeter University
Department of Drama.
WORKS PAST TO PRESENT
THEATRE, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA
Cantock's Close
1st NOVEMBER, 5.15 - 7.00pm
Dr Heike Roms & Professor Mike Pearson,
Performance Studies, Dept Theatre, Film & TV Studies, Aberystwyth
University,
will present two ongoing research projects devoted to archiving performance:
"What's Welsh for Performance?" An Archive of Performance Art in Wales
and "The Brith Gof Archive Project".
All welcome, hope to see you there.
Golygfa Gwydyr yn cylflwyno cynhyrchiad Cynefin .
Golyfa Gwydyr presents a Cynefin production;
YSBRYDNOS
Hydref 25-31 October
Caerdroia,Coedwig Gwydir Forest, Llanrwst, Conwy
The clocks go back, as we go forward into the impending darkness.
The summer a faint memory as we venture into the castle of turns, that leads to a door. On the other side is the unknown and unknowable. Do you open it?
Thu 18 October 2007
6pm Cardiff School of Art and Design
Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore, Mike Pearson
::in conversation about their work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1970s and 1980s and their involvement in Chapter Arts Centre.
In English.Admission free.to reserve a place contact: mail@performance-wales.org
Space Workshop, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0SP
http://www.performance-wales.org
Gloria Days
Marc Rees returns from his site specific/installation sojourn with a brand new theatrical work that promises to be his most flamboyant and ambitious project to date. With the support of a world class creative team including opera designer John MacFarlane and Berlin dance duo Rubato, Marc has created an imaginative, compelling and moving piece of dance theatre inspired by an extraordinary character, the 5th Marquis of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget.
Known as 'The Dancing Marquis', Paget challenged and subverted Edwardian notions of class, gender, decorum and theatrical propriety. His fantastical lifestyle and subsequent unglamorous downfall provides the focus for this unique multi-disciplinary solo work which premieres in Wales this autumn.
Taliesin Arts Centre-18 & 19 October Tickets: 01792 60 20 60
Wales Millennium Centre-24 - 27 October Tickets: 08700 40 20 00
CSCCI - DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND MUSIC RESEARCH SEMINAR
'What's Welsh for Performance?: Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales'
DR. HEIKE ROMS
WEDNESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2007
5PM
ROOM CA402
ATRiuM (Adam Street, near Queen Street Station)
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED
ALL WELCOME!
This presentation introduces What’s Welsh for Performance? (Beth yw
LAPSE
As part of Addiction and in conjunction with ‘ How Many Steps '
tactile BOSCH invites you to a night of performance.
Featuring both local and international talent, LAPSE presents an evening of live work that is obsessive, process dependent, and downright unpredictable.
With work from:
Beth Greenhalgh, Joost Nieuwenburg, Karl Price, Nezaket Ekici, Rufus Orsborne, Tim Bromage, Rachel Parry
Opening 19:00, 16/10/07 @ tactile BOSCH studios, Andrews Road, Cardiff
http://tactilebosch.org/
Experimentica 07 is a six day festival of live and time based art at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
16-21 October 2007
Box Office + 44 (0)29 2030 4400 www.chapter.org
Includes:
Goodcopbadcop
Submotion
Gareth Llyr and Louise Ritchie
Mr & Mrs Clark
John Rowley
What's Welsh for Performance
Traw + Emma Macey
Tom Marshman
Deborah Light
Beth Greenhalgh and Sam Hasler
Davida Hewlett and Paul Granjon
Karl Price
Patrick Jones and Dave Lordan
Jeong Geum- Hyung
Rosie Dennis
The Panacea Society
Chris Holtom
Joost Nieuwenburg
Atmen
Neil Davies
Planningtorock
Rowan O'Neill
S.A.A.B
Gwrando
Helena Hunter
Guy Mason and Ian Wiblin
Dave Marchant
Richard O'Sullivan
Silas Money
Suzy Roberts
www.chapter.org
experimentica07.blogspot.com
BRITH GOF ARCHIVE PROJECT
Event I: Saturday 13 October 10am-4.30pm
Gwthio'r ffiniau: Ymfudwyr (1983), Gernika! (1983) Rhydcymerau (1984)
The Foundry Studio, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth
Event 2: Saturday 1 December 10am-4.30pm
Pax: Aberystwyth Railway Station (1991)
Y Drwm, National Library of Wales; Aberystwyth Station
Events are organised by Prof Mike Pearson and Margaret Ames.
ampersand present
Flesh and Blood Humans
The next amperSAND event will feature Jolyon Webb, Art Manager at TruSim . It takes place on the 10th October at 6.30pm, for a 7.00pm start, at the Dockside Room, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea . The cost of attending is £4.
For full details and booking form go to: http://www.ampersandswansea.com/
13/11/1975 - 15/11/1975
Galactic Theatre (i.e. Lacey, Bruce and Bruce, Jill):
Manifestations of Obsessions and Fantasies
Cardiff: Chapter Workshop and Centre for the Arts, Theatre
For more information visit:
http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1975.html
what's welsh for performance? - An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales
A two-year series of events devoted to key artists who have shaped the development of performance art in Wales since 1968.
Season 2 (October 2007- January 2008)
Thu 18 October 2007
6pm Cardiff School of Art and Design *
Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore, Mike Pearson
::in conversation about their work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1970s and 1980s and their involvement in Chapter Arts Centre.
Thu 22 November 2007
6pm The Foundry/ Y Ffowndri Aberystwyth **
Richard Gough
::in conversation about alternative approaches to teaching, archiving and publishing performance and on the role of internationalism for performance art in Wales.
Thu 24 January 2008
6pm Cardiff School of Art and Design *
Phil Babot, André Stitt, Simon Whitehead
::in conversation about the contemporary performance art scene, the role of artist-run spaces and networks and the significance of place in performance.
In English.Admission free.
to reserve a place contact: mail@performance-wales.org
Locations
Space Workshop, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0SP
The Foundry, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3AJ
Project: Dr Heike Roms; in collaboration with SHIFTwork Time Based Art Research Group, Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Funded by: The Arts Council of Wales
With support from: University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and Chapter.
'A Certain Slant of Light'
opening 6 October 2007, 6.30-9.30 p.m.
Includes Jo Shapland's filmdance 'Soluna'.
St Dogmaels Gallery
Artist-in-Residence at Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth
Centre for Performance Research would like to invite an artist to work in
residence to produce work in the organisation's new home, The Foundry. The project is a residency where the artist will use their visual and/or performance skills to respond to the building in an innovative way.
Deadline for applications will be Friday 2nd November 2007.
Public Art Wales/Celf Gyhoeddus Cymru
email: info@cywaithcymru.org
Artist brief and guidelines also available at: www.cywaithcymru.org
FRAMEWORK SOCIAL down the social.
VISUAL EXPERIMENTICA AND CREATIVE EXCHANGE.
Tuesday October 2nd 2007
7pm £2-entrance fee - all proceeds this month to OXFAM
St James Social Club, St James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea
http://www.myspace.com/frameworkswansea
line-up includes: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE : Adam Goodge; THE ART-LIFE Project, John & Hilary;Joan Jones; and others
An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales
as part of the workshop on 'Staging, Exhibiting, Curating', at the European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 26 – 30 September 2007.
http://dramaturgy21.de/en/en_Frameset-7.htm
Café Artistique is an initiative developed by Axis to stimulate discussion and critical debate in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.
Café Artistique involves a key-note speaker invited to give a short presentation on a theme, which is then opened up for debate. These are evening events, held at informal venues (café/bar), and are aimed at anyone involved with art, from artists, curators and writers to those with a keen interest.
A new series of events is taking place in bars across Wales this autumn, starting 24 September, and each event will include an online forum.
Cardiff, 24 September, 7.30pm, Chapter Arts Centre
Speaker: Heath Bunting
Artist-in-Residence: Carolyn Ryves
Aberystwyth, 5 November, 7.30pm, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Speaker: Lucienne Cole
Artist-in-Residence: Miranda Whall
Swansea, 19 November, 7.30pm, Monkey Bar
Speaker: Mikhail Karikis
Artist-in-Residence: David Marchant
http://www.axisweb.org/atATCL.aspx?AID=856
Evening Performance "Daughter on the Mountain Top" and workshops by Jessica Lerner, Eeva-Maria Mutka and Eleanora Allderings.
Ammanford Miner's Theatre, 22 September 2007, 9.30am - 9pm
Information http://www.shakeholes.org.uk
Wanted: silly, crap, boring, stupid, time wasting, rubbish video works by artists and film makers; and
Wanted: drawings on beer mats or on the back of fag packets; and
Wanted: old or very old polaroid photographs; and
Wanted: drawings on post it notes
for exhibition in November 2007
send DVD only with CV and contact details to:
Barrie J Davies, The Garej Art space, 183a Kings Road, Pontcanna, Cardiff, Wales
Deadline: November 5th 2007
http://www.garej.co.uk
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Events start at 7.30pm prompt
Tuesday 18th September - Sara Rees and Paul Hurley of Hotel Antelope give philosophical and conceptual introduction to Think Club; Savita Custead, Science Communicator and Director of Bristol Natural History Consortium, talks about communication models and policy.
Tuesday 2nd October - Prof. Harry Collins, Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science at Cardiff University, talks about his new theories of interpretation in art and science; Jon Gower, writer and BBC Arts and Media correspondent, talks about writing, creativity and empiricism within art and cultural criticism.
Tuesday 16th October - Prof. Valerie Walkerdine of Cardiff University talks about fixedness and choice in the context of neoliberalism and 'the global citizen'.
Tuesday 30th October t.b.c.
Tuesday 13th November t.b.c.
Tuesday 27th November - Prof. Barbara Adam, trans-disciplinary social theorist internationally renowned for the study of time, talks about action, ethics and sustainable futures, in the context of her recent three-year 'In Pursuit of The Future' project.
Tuesday 12th December - Party?
1987
Richard Long:
Crossing Stones
from Aldeburgh beach to Aberystwyth beach and back; itinerant
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1980s/1987.html
The Suitcase Project (www.suitcaseproject.com) is looking for a volunteer who is willing to get naked and be covered in blue paint in order to aid Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen with her spectacular performance of “The Void” at The Old Library (Cardiff) on Thursday 25 October.
“The Void” involves Lilibeth re-enacting performances by Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Ana Mendieta, and others, followed by her latest performance ”The Artist’s Song”. “”A Void” investigates the identity of an artist and questions the authenticity of the art work and the history of art.
If you are interested to find out more please visit this link to Lilibeth’s gallery the Kirkhoff, Copenhagen: http://www.kirkhoff.dk/art/archive/lilibeth_cuenca_a_void/
Contact: liberty@suitcaseproject.com
Platfform tri/ 3
Contents:
Phil Babot on André Stitt's Reclamation;
Nia Roberts in conversation with Awst & Walther;
Walking to Work - Simon Whitehead;
Heike Roms in conversation with Ivor Davies - What's Welsh for performance?;
James Tyson on Sioned Huws;
Richard Gough in conversation with Melissa C. Thompson
David Adams on Theatre and Memory
Meredydd Barker Aqua Nero (extracts)
For copies please contact Wales Arts International
t: + 44 29 2038 3024 f: + 44 29 2039 8778
www.wai.org.uk
Launch of The Comic Book Exhibition
Saturday 15th September 2007, 6 - 9pm BST
Over fifty artists and writers coming together to create a new book of
contemporary comic art. Including Bedwyr Williams, Marc Rees, Mark
Newgarden, Suzanne Andrade, John Hegley and many, many more.
This exhibition of the artwork is the first Welsh exhibition to launch
in Second Life.
http://www.thecomicbook.org/events/lang/en/
"Paradise Lost" - performance by Manon Awst & Benjamin Walther
at the opening of Awst & Walther's exhibition DREAMMACHINE
at Swansea Museum Stores, Landore
Saturday 8 September 2007, from 7pm
For more information: http://www.awst-walther.com
LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Archiving Performance Art ("Walijskosc a performance? Archiwizujac sztuke performance")
at the European Performance Art Festival EPAF Warsaw 2007, 7 September 2007, 5pm
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Al. Ujazdowskie 6,00-461 Warsaw, Poland
Information: http://csw.art.pl/ns/2007/epaf.htm
FRAMEWORK SOCIAL
down the social / a space for artists to meet and socialize
including: Poetry reading/ spoken word by Susie Wild; video work from Undercurrents;
experimental Flute Performance with painting work by Stephen Philips; performance artist Joan Jones; Fran Ciccotti
Tuesday 4th September 2007, St.James Social Club, St.James Crescent,Swansea
7pm
frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
www.myspace.com/frameworkswansea
Framework Social - Creative Exchange
a space for artists to meet and socialise and to try out new work in a supportive environment
Call for artists:
Artist in Residence
Video Work
Installation/ Drawing etc (Static Work)
Performance/ Spoken Word/ Action/ Interactive/ Participatory Work
Music/ Sound/ DJs
Please contact frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
Remembering Performance- Ivor Davies in conversation with Heike Roms
an edited transcript of the conversation with Ivor Davies held on 12 October 2006 in Cardiff as part of An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales
published in: Platfform (Contemporary performance practice in Wales) tri/3 (August 2007), pp. 13-17.
For copies please contact Wales Arts International
t: + 44 29 2038 3024 f: + 44 29 2039 8778
www.wai.org.uk
Framework Social on Tuesday 7th August at 7pm: with Martin 'Sonny boy' Williams; Daniel McCabe; Joan Jones; Tom O'Sullivan; Lydia White (poetry)and performance work by Fay Crispin.
St James Social club, St James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea.
1982
Marty St James and Anne Wilson:
Perfect Moments
Cardiff: Oriel Gallery
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1980s/1982.html
Welshing: 1. To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager
2. To cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
3. To fail to fulfill an obligation.
Welshing is a four-person project involving a fashion designer, art therapist, illustrator and fine artist. Throughout July the four will develop a creative relationship from a central shared studio. Narratives will be developed between works constructed, promises made and broken, and meanings changed thus reclaiming the defamation of being a Welsher, turning an insult into an admirable property.
Sam Osborne, Amy Ison, Casey Raymond and Lee Campbell
1 - 10 August 2007 at tactileBOSCH
tactileBOSCH Studios www.tactilebosch.org
Andrews Rd Llandaff North Cardiff CF14 2SP
www.welshing.info
1979
André Stitt:
In Transit #3
Blaenau Ffestiniog
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1979.html
Performance and Protest by Heike Roms
Heike Roms re-visits the international performance art programme at the National Eisteddfod in 1977. In conversation with Timothy Emlyn Jones, John Chris Jones and Andrew Knight, she discusses its attempt to connect a radical art practice with local cultural concerns, as well as its legacy.
new welsh review Issue 76, Summer 2007
Visit http://www.newwelshreview.com/nwr_current.asp to buy a copy for £5.40 + £1.00 p&p
Exhibition of paintings, video, photographic and live art by Andy Fung,Dafydd Fortt, Alan Rees-Baynes, Kim Fielding, Phil Babot and Ali Simkins, in Cardiff's new artspace Garej (183a Kings Road, Pontcanna).
Opening Friday 20 July at 6pm.
For more information visit http://www.garej.co.uk
[For Barrie J Davies's film document of the opening, including footage of Phil Babot's performance, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31nUL83EnSM
09/06/1978 - 10/06/1978
Nigel Rolfe:
Red Tower; The Treatment of Individual Parts
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1978.html
CPR Summer Shift: open evenings with guest artists
MIKE PEARSON
Friday 6th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Gwener 6 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
GERALDINE PILGRIM
Saturday 7th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Sadwrn 7 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
RIC JERROM (NATURAL THEATRE)
Wednesday 11th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Mercher 11 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
MARISA CARNESKY
Sunday 15th July 8pm/ Dydd Sul 15 Gorffennaf 8yh
SIMON THORNE & INGRID VON WANTOCH REKOWSKI
Tuesday 17th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Mawrth 17 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
All presentations will be held in the Foundry Studio at the Centre for
Performance Research, Aberystwyth.
For further information on any of these presentations or on our Summer
Shift programmes, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Centre For Performance Research,cprwww@aber.ac.uk; www.thecpr.org.uk
Including work by Cardiff based performance artist Fay Crispin, eccentric music/performance by Joan Jones, Framework Socials first Artist in Residence Jonathan Anderson, Video work by Frameworks Paul Woodland and regular features such as bingo, music and a bit of dancing...
3 July 2007, 7pm - St. James Social Club, St. James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea
frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
(Contact us for more information / if you have any ideas for future Framework Social’s / if you want to be our next artist in residence/ or if you would like to see images of the space.)
I have been invited to speak about the 'What's Welsh for Performance?' archive at the forthcoming symposium on 'A Visual Arts Archive for Cardiff', organised by Simon Fenoulhet on behalf the Cardiff Visual Arts Forum.
Friday 29 June 2007, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff. 10am-4pm.
Other speakers include: Simon Fenoulhet, Euryn Ogwen - Williams, Gary Malkin (Baltic).
"Belonging" by Peter Finnemore, Marc Rees and Bedwyr Williams
Oriel 1, St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff
Thursday, 28th June 2007
6.00 pm
01/08/1977 - 06/08/1977
Paul Davies:
Welsh Not
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1977.html
'Walking the Line': "Drawing as thought, exploration, performative process and tool"; with live art interfacing on opening night by Phil Babot, Tom Eddy, Karl Price and "Girl from London"
23 June 2007, from 6.30pm at tactileBOSCH Studios, Llandaff.
For more information visit: http://www.tactilebosch.org/
Anushiye Yarnell: SUGAR bLOod gLOVES LUST
A new work from one of Cardiff’s most idiosyncratic and visionary dancers. Anushiye Yarnell creates performances which blend the everyday with extrodinary flights of invention.
Beth Greenhalgh: Bloody Poetry (John slapped my thigh)
A second chance to see Cardiff-based artist Beth Greenhalgh’s dark and glittering group work, featuring live music and choreography. A captivating performance that debuted at Experimentica 06.
Fri 22 + Sat 23 June 8pm
Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff
http://www.chapter.org/9379.html
I have been invited to make a presentation about the Oral History aspect of the 'What's Welsh for performance' project at the following event:
'Placing (Oral) History', Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow - 18 June 2007
Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles is a project that seeks to expand the documentation and archiving of Live Art and Performance in the British Isles from the 1960s onwards by developing and establishing an extensive oral history project over the next 5 years. An AHRC-funded network collaboration between the Department of Drama, University of Bristol, the British Library Sound Archive, University of the Arts, London, and the University of Glasgow, this first year functions as an exploratory period during which members of the steering group are hosting a series of working days throughout the British Isles in order to draw upon the expertise and skills of a range of regionally placed scholars, artists, curators and archivists working in the fields of Live Art and Performance.
Sensitive to the politics of mapping and representing histories, we are keen to ensure that any oral history of performance and live art practice in the British Isles recognises local, national and cultural specificities, whether of practices, genealogies, debates or issues of access.
Reiko Aoyagi: Flow
The latest work from Chapter based artist Reiko Aoyagi is an ongoing webcam broadcast from a sculptural excavation at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in New York, USA . Made by Aoyagi during a residency at the park in summer 2006, the excavation may at first glance seem like an intrusion on the natural landscape, but allows for a process of renewal and regeneration.
At Chapter, the webcam image will be projected in real-time onto a large screen in the theatre auditorium. Subject to internet delays and the distorted grain of the webcam picture, the projected transmission is a link to a real place, a landscape in which change can be seen in the ever present aspect of the natural world, opening up the potential for dialogue and thought.
Each evening’s screening will last approximately one hour and be introduced by Reiko Aoyagi and Chapter Theatre Programmer James Tyson.
Friday, 15 June 2007; Saturday, 16 June 2007; Sunday, 17 June 2007
7pm
Chapter Arts Centre
http://www.chapter.org/9842.html
The webcam can be viewed at www.stonequarryhillartpark.org/webcam3
21/10/1974 - 26/10/1974
Rob Con (i.e. Robert Conybear) with Shirley Cameron, Roland Miller and Marty St James
Floorpieces, wallpieces, peoplepieces, brooms, spectacles and handkerchiefs, and other moanarisms (aka Rob Con in Oriel)
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1974.html
The CAT Show: Cardiff Art In Time
TRACE: SAMIZDAT PRESS
NEW:2007
Text & edit: André Stitt, Report text: Sam Hasler
Photography: Tim Freeman & Matt Skelly
Features the work of: Justin McKeown, Roddy Hunter, Sinéad O’Donnell, Jeffrey Byrd, Eddie Ladd, Arai Shin Ichi, Paul Granjon, Eve Dent, Kira O’Reilly, Matt Cook, Paul Hurley, Heike Roms, Anthony Howell, Arai Shin Ichi, The Threatmantics, Alastair MacLennon , Phil Babot, Kim Simons, Tim Bromage, Richard Dedomenici, Robin Deacon, Jamie McMurry, Jacuzzi Junta, The Panacea Society, Shaun Caton, Ointment, Julie Andrée T., Anne Bean, Gustáv ütö, Silvia Ziranek, Clemente Padín, The Heavy Quartet, Richard Powell, Lee Hassall .
ISBN: 978-0-9553927-4-0
180 pgs full colour throughout
Price £12
Available through: Trace
http://www.tracegallery.org/publications.html
[PayPal available]
UWIC Cardiff School of Art & Design - Live Art Exhibition, composed by 3rd Year Time Based students, featuring installation, video, sonic art, animation and performance.
Cardiff School of Art and Design Howard Gardens, 9 June 2007, 2PM – Late
For more information visit http://www.artistsontherun.co.uk/
Erna Ómarsdóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson: IBM 1401 – a user’s manual
‘Originally, we intended to question relationships between man and machines. We wanted to evoke the nostalgia of old technologies and human evolution. The music, played on stage from a computer, is based on an extract of an Icelandic hymn programmed on IBM 1401, the first computer to arrive in Iceland in 1964’. - Erna Ómarsdóttir
A collaboration between two internationally acclaimed Icelandic aritists: musician Johann Johannsson and one of the most captivating performers to be seen on the European stage today, Erna Ómarsdóttir.
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
8pm
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
http://www.chapter.org/9377.html
1976
Ian Hinchliffe & Rob Con (i.e. Robert Conybear)
Interviews with Hinchliffe and Con
Cardiff: Oriel and at sites in Wales (Brecon, Machynlleth, Harlech)
For more information visit: http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1976.html
Presentation at the 'First Symposium on Archive, Memory and Performance', hosted by the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth 25-27 May 2007
"Richard Gough, Judie Christie, Adrian Kear, Michal Kobialka, Mike Pearson, Heike Roms, Rebecca Schneider and Diana Taylor met at the first research and development meeting for a major project on Archive, Memory and Performance." (CPR)
An art event by Blaengar artist led organisation
Llywernog Silver-Lead Mine 25 - 28 June 2007.
Carwyn Evans, Ffion Rhys, Alice Briggs and performance group White Rope will create new artworks including video projections, art installations and performance using found objects.
Event opening: Friday 25th May at 7.00pm
For more information visit http://www.blaengar.org/
Real Institute presents in association with LUX
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: Expanded Cinema
Wrexham Arts Centre, 23 May 2007, doors open 7pm
Programme includes Castle Two (Malcolm Le Grice, 1968), Play (Sally Potter, 1971), Diagonal
(William Raban, 1973), Hand Grenade (Gill Eatherley, 1971), Light Music (Lis Rhodes,
1975-77), Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall, 1973).
Curated by Mark Webber.
For more information visit: http://www.realinstitute.org/pages/events/Shoot%20Shoot%20Shoot/Shoot_Shoot_Shoot.html
1972
Timothy Emlyn Jones (aka Tim Jones):
Equation = Equation
Cardiff: Chapter Arts Centre
For more information visit: http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1972.html.
I Sing of a Maiden
A multi-media performance that brings together alt.folk singer Charlotte Greig; writer Rachel Trezise (winner of the EDS Dylan Thomas prize for literature); experimental film-maker Rachel Calder; and featuring actor Carys Eleri.
Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre, Thu 10 - Sat 12th May, 8pm £10/£8/£6
http://www.chapter.org/9347.html
Framework Social- Down The Social - Creative Exchange
Including performance work 'Bath Time Nightmares' by Joan Jones and a spoken word / visual performance organised by Tom O'Sullivan.
8 May 2007, 7pm - St. James Social Club, Uplands, Swansea
frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
19/03/1971
Shirley Cameron and Roland Miller (et al):
Cyclamen Cyclists
Swansea
For more information visit: http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1971.html.
Rivers and Mirrors: Part I
Monologue for un-classic piano, perhaps in six parts, with two impromptus – like lakes of intuition – and an invitation to female voice, computer and film.
Oscar Edelstein (Buenos Aires) Composer / Pianist
Deborah Claire Procter (Cardiff) Singer / Film director
Sandra Grinberg (New York) Filmed Dancer
Cardiff School of Music, 5th May, 7.30pm £9 (£6)
BBC Call NOW Line 08700 13 18 12
http://www.riversandmirrors.com/
Including: Mr & Mrs Clark; Paul Hurley & Yoko; Andy Taylor; Beth Greenhalgh; Neil Jeffries; Fay Crispin
5 May 2007, 8pm, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff.
Presented by Jacuzzi Junta.
http://www.jacuzzi-junta.org/
I have been invited to give a lecture on my project as part of the Lunchtime Lecture Series at Aberystwyth School of Art. Here the announcement:
Wednesday 2nd May 2007
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Small Lecture Theatre 206
The Lunchtime Lecture Series is open to the public and all students and staff of the School of Art. Throughout the semester internationally acknowledged artists have been invited to give a lecture on their practice and current, past and future projects. The eighth in this semesters series will be Dr Heike Roms.
Heike Roms
“What’s Welsh for performance? Uncovering and archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales”
Heike Roms is Lecturer in Performance Studies at the UWA. She has published widely on contemporary performance practice, in particular on work originating from Wales. Future plans include a history of Welsh performance art and a book on the relationship between performance and ecology in a Welsh context. Performance Art is widely recognized as a vital part of the history of art in Wales The contemporary Performance Art scene in this country is one of the most vibrant anywhere in the UK. And yet one currently searches in vain for any accounts or critical evaluations of its practices in the official annals of Welsh art history. What's Welsh for Performance? presents a five-year research project (2006-2010) devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of Performance Art in Wales from 1968 to 2008. What's Welsh for Performance? presents a case study on how an artistic field is formed within a particular cultural, social and environment context; and how the ephemeral art of performance can be documented and archived.
www.performance-wales.org
[Postscript: A review has appeared on the Rwdls Nwdls blog]
I have been invited to make a presentation about the Oral History aspect of the 'What's Welsh for performance' project at the following event:
'Curatorial Practices - From Live Art to the Archive' at Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol - 30 April 2007
Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles is a project that seeks to expand the documentation and archiving of Live Art and Performance in the British Isles from the 1960s onwards by developing and establishing an extensive oral history project over the next 5 years. A network collaboration between the Department of Drama, University of Bristol, the British Library Sound Archive, University of the Arts, London, and the University of Glasgow, this first year functions as an exploratory period during which members of the steering group are hosting a series of working days throughout the British Isles in order to draw upon the expertise and skills of a range of regionally placed scholars, artists, curators and archivists working in the fields of Live Art and Performance. The first of these days takes place at the University of Bristol with the kind support of the Institute of Advanced Studies, BIRTHA, and the AHRC.
For more information visit http://bris.ac.uk/ias/events/2007/109
30/01/1970
Ian Breakwell:
UNWORD 4
Swansea: University Student Union
For more information visit: http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1970.html.
Gaelle Rouard & Etienne Caire: 'Hyperscope' (film-remix)
27 April 2007, Civic Hall, Conwy, and tour.
Presented by Real Institute Rêl Institiwt
http://www.realinstitute.org/pages/events/Levox%202007/levox_intro.html
Summer 1969
Keith Arnatt: Self-Burial or The Disappearance of the Artist (also: Television Interference Project)
Tintern (Monmouthshire)
For more information visit: http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1960s/1969.html.
Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich: 'Siege Weapons of Love'
14 April 2007, 2.30pm - Guildhall Rotunda, Swansea
as part of LOCWS 3 ART ACROSS THE CITY
http://locwsinternational.com/index.html
21/01/1968
Ivor Davies:
Adam on St Agnes’ Eve
Swansea: Debating Chamber, University Student Union
For more information visit: http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1960s/1968.html.
Michael Day 'Handdance' (An interactive installation / audience performance) as part of the Improvisation Continuums Conference at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, hosted by the University of Glamorgan, 12 - 14 April 2007.
For more information visit: http://news.glam.ac.uk/news/2007/apr/11/improvisation-conference-first/
An eight-hour performance piece based on questions as part of the Improvisation Continuums Conference at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, hosted by the University of Glamorgan, 12 - 14 April 2007.
For more information visit: http://news.glam.ac.uk/news/2007/apr/11/improvisation-conference-first/
