Announcement: Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - with Richard Gough

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