Announcement: talk in Cardiff

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 yn Gymraeg?), a major research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of performance art in Wales. Performance art is now widely recognized as representing a vital part of the visual arts in this country, yet one currently searches in vain for any records or critical evaluations of its practices in accounts of Welsh art history. The project is an attempt to address this neglect. The presentation discusses some of the methodological implications of archiving performance work with reference to the first ten years of the art form after its initial appearance in Wales in 1968, before presenting the two main strands of the Welsh performance archive: an online searchable database (www.performance-wales.org ) and a publicly staged Oral History series.