Friday 28 September 2007

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance?

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

Monday 24 September 2007

Announcement: Café Artistique events

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

Saturday 22 September 2007

Announcement: Improvisation, Movement, Dawns - Event of experimental Performance Art (Ammanford)


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

Wednesday 19 September 2007

Announcement: Video work, drawings, polaroids wanted

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

Tuesday 18 September 2007

Announcement: Think Club (Swansea)



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?

Monday 17 September 2007

40 events in 40 years: 1987


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

Sunday 16 September 2007

Announcement: Performer wanted

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

Announcement: publication on performance practice in Wales



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

Saturday 15 September 2007

Announcement: Comic Book Exhibition Second Life


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/

Saturday 8 September 2007

Announcement: Performance by Awst & Walther (Swansea)

"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

Friday 7 September 2007

Announcement: Lecture in Poland

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

Tuesday 4 September 2007

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

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