Friday 29 June 2007

Symposium: A Visual Arts Archive for Cardiff

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).

Thursday 28 June 2007

Performances by P.Finnemore, M.Rees and B.Williams



"Belonging" by Peter Finnemore, Marc Rees and Bedwyr Williams
Oriel 1, St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff
Thursday, 28th June 2007
6.00 pm

40 events in 40 years: 1977


01/08/1977 - 06/08/1977
Paul Davies:
Welsh Not
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1977.html

Saturday 23 June 2007

Announcement: exhibition at tactileBOSCH


'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/

Friday 22 June 2007

Announcement: Performances by A. Yarnell and B. Greenhalgh


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

Monday 18 June 2007

Placing (Oral) Histories

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.

Friday 15 June 2007

Announcement: video work by Reiko Aoyagi


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

Sunday 10 June 2007

40 events in 40 years: 1974

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

Saturday 9 June 2007

Announcement: Publication on Performance Art


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]

Announcement: UWIC Degree Show in Time-Based Art


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/

Tuesday 5 June 2007

Announcement: performance by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson



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

Saturday 2 June 2007

40 events in 40 years: 1976


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