Saturday 29 November 2008

Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968-2008












"...if you don't know what a Fluxconcert is you must come and see for yourself..." [Brian Lane, 1968]





Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Castle Theatre, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom



"The Fluxus Concert was a real success... Slides of cowboy drawings. We pull crackers, burst bags, howl. Somebody chases his mate around the parish hall to hit him. Flux-Pin-Up No. 1 showers down. It is a picture of Brian. ...People howl and throw streamers, and stick coloured papers on their faces, and somehow behind the light Brian throws us another set of instructions. Caution, Art Corrupts."
(John Hall, A State of Flux - John Hall at the Aberystwyth Festival, The Guardian 30 November 1968)

From the 27th to the 29th November 1968, artist Brian Lane came to Aberystwyth with his collaborators, the First Dream Machine, to organize a 3-day Fluxus event.

We will pay tribute to this seminal example of experimental art practice exactly 40 years after it first occurred. Aberystwyth-based artists will perform their interpretation of the original Fluxus scores used in 1968.

Admission is free. To book tickets visit:
http://performancewales.express.ts.com/

The restaging is part of What’s Welsh for Performance? Beth yw performance’ yn Gymraeg? A major research project aiming to uncover and archive the history of performance art in Wales.
Project Director: Dr Heike Roms, Performance Studies, Aberystwyth University

With the support of the Sir David Hughes Parry Awards 2008; Aberystwyth University Research Fund; Aberystwyth University.

Sunday 19 October 2008

Mapping Performance Art in Cardiff

Sun 19 Oct 2008: 2-10pm
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
As part of Experimentica 08

Walk down the lanes of performance memory...

Share your experiences of performance work in Cardiff over the last 45 years by locating them on a room-size map of the city – and contribute to a growing archive on Performance Art in Wales. Whether you are an artist who has made performance work in this city, or an audience member who once witnessed a performance (voluntarily or involuntarily)… Any material will be of interest - from actual pieces of documentation to vague memories of events caught out of the corner of one's eye.

The archive will be accessible throughout the day. Visitors welcome!
www.chapter.org/14200.html
www.experimentica08.blogspot.com

Wednesday 10 September 2008

Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968

They say that if you can remember the '60s you weren't there… we are hoping to prove this wrong.
We are looking for Aberystwyth residents and students of 1968 who have memories of a 3 day art event that took place at the Parish Hall (now the Castle Theatre) in November of that year.
It was called Miss Rainbow Day, Brian Lane and the First Dream Machine and was organised by the Guild of Students (including John Osborne, Bob Marsland, Steve Mills) as part of the annual Aberystwyth Arts Festival.
It featured a 12-hour concert of electronic music, the first Fluxclinic, a session of total theatre, a session of minimal theatre and a Fluxus Concert. White Balloon Event, Darkness Pieces, Leaflet Concert and Panic Dances were some of the highlights…
If you have any memories of these events, or know somebody who does, please get in touch!
Any material will be of interest - even vague memories of activities caught out of the corner of your eye.
mail@performance-wales.org
For more information visit: www.performance-wales.org/aberystwyth1968.htm

Thursday 14 August 2008

Simon Whitehead Locator 18 (Pentre Ifan)

LOCATOR18 - BIVOUAC 14-18 August 2008 Canolfan Pentre Ifan Centre, West Wales.
Locator is an ongoing series of residential workshops led by Movement Artist Simon Whitehead. Tycanol, a site of SSI and sessile oak woodland nested beneath the Preseli hills, Wales, has been the home for a quietly evolving performance practice over the last 13 years. Residing in the sensory life of the body and its movement, Locator is an active exploration of ecology and sensory perception through a process of moving, walking and wandering, witnessing, gathering, rising and falling with the sun, getting lost, becoming located, drawing, fasting and making.
In this workshop we will pursue the phenomenon of shelter, both as it resides in the movement and scale of the body and its imminence in our lives.
Fee: £225 (waged), £180 (part waged, freelance). Fees Include accommodation and first meal. Please send £80 deposit to reserve a place:
Simon Whitehead, 1Penrhiw, Abercych, Pembrokeshire. SA370HB.(white.simon@virgin.net). (Please book early, places limited to ten.)

Friday 11 July 2008

Experimentica: Open Call for Submissions (Cardiff)

Experimentica 08
Chapter, Cardiff (Wales, UK)
15-19 October 2008
Open Call for Submissions
You are invited to submit a proposal to Experimentica, Chapter’s annual festival of Live and Time-based Arts
To be a part of Experimentica 08 submit a written proposal that includes:
- a descriptive statement of intended work/artists statement outlining specific concerns and interests.
- technical requirements and details of most appropriate venue or location
- any supporting materials (photos/slides/dvds/cds etc.)
- full contact details
Address your entries to: Experimentica 08
Chapter, Market Rd, Canton, Cardiff. CF5 1QE. Wales
(Please include an SAE for return of materials)
If you have any questions or need advice on what to include in your proposal, please contact Cathy Boyce at Chapter on 029 2031 1050 / cathy.boyce@chapter.org
Deadline for submissions: 11 July 2008
www.chapter.org

Sunday 29 June 2008

The Museum Of The Moment Workshop (Cardiff)

The Museum Of The Moment Workshop
Sunday 29th June 10am - 5pm
The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff
www.arcadesproject.org
6 workshops given by leading practitioners that invite you to explore the city through photography, making video on your mobile phone, writing fiction, recording oral history or drawing.
ALL WELCOME TO TAKE PART For FREE
Come along and try something new or develop an existing interest
The Workshops
(choose 1 from the morning session and 1 from the afternoon)
Morning 10 - 1
Photographing Place* –Richard Page
Site Specific Writing –Angela Morgan Cutler
Exploring Architecture Through Drawing- Jennie Savage and Richard Powell
Afternoon 2-5
Photographing People* –Pratap Rughani
Introduction to Recording Oral History - Rib Davis
Making & Editing Films on Your Mobile Phone* – Victoria Tillotson & Nic Finch.
*you will need to bring a digital camera/ mobile phone to take part
Go to the website www.arcadesproject.org and click on TAKE PART to find out more about the workshops and to book a place.
The Museum Of The Moment is part of “The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary” by Jennie Savage

Thursday 26 June 2008

Showroom (Aberystwyth)












- will be a new platform for artists in Aberystwyth
- an evening for artists to show and present work (finished as well as in-progress), to try out new ideas, to re-visit old ones, to share, to experiment…
- a space to meet and socialise…
- a space that is shaped by your ideas and your input

Invitation to participate:
We are looking for your work for Showroom. This could take the form of live work/performance, video, installation, participatory works, interventions, sound, and so forth. All input and suggestions are welcome and appreciated – we are happy to discuss your ideas.
We will launch Showroom on Thursday the 26th of June, upstairs in the Coopers Arms, Aberystwyth at 8 o'clock. From then on Showroom will take place every last Thursday of the month.
Showroom is organised by Richard Allen, Kasia Coleman, Daniel Ladnar, Gareth Llŷr, Esther Pilkington, and Louise Ritchie.
http://www.show-room.org.uk

Saturday 14 June 2008

Bossa Nova - tactileBOSCH (Cardiff)

A Contemporary Painting Exhibition @ tactileBOSCH
Opens SATURDAY June 14th 2008
BOSSANOVA is a tactileBOSCH ‘studio without walls' project that aims to push the envelope in a residency style program that shows a number of practitioners preparing for an exhibition of contemporary painting. A number of areas will be designated as work in progress areas from the 1 st June until the opening of the exhibition on Sat 14 th June. BOSANOVA will remain in situ till Sat July 12th .
Curated by Graham Phillips & Kim Fielding
with: Iwan Bala, Alan Rhys Baynes, Jiao Chen, Dominic Crastner, Matt Duncan, Nathan Ford, Dafydd Fortt, Paul Granjon, Andrew Hill, Samuel James Hunt, Gilles Ben Istri, Zaeger Jones, Katharina Lewonig, Ben Lloyd, Luke Mintowt-Czyz, Robert Pepperell, Ben Rees-Thomas, Will Roberts, Clare Skidmore, Tobias Stengal, Markus Weis, Aishan Yu
*In keeping with the expressive Painting theme a number of-performances will inhabit the outer reaches of tactileBOSCH from 6.30-9pm
Hannah Jones, James Harper, Ashleigh Heeson, Hannah Pollard, Joan Jones, Andy Hill, Matt Duncan & Andy Taylor
Saturday 14 th June from 6.30 – 9pm
With an after party From 9.30pm @ the evolving NosDa Hotel in Riverside
www.tactilebosch.org

It was forty years ago today ... that Yoko Ono did not come to Wales

Yoko Ono (Japan)
Intention to fly [or] Attention! To: Fly
Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Wales
14 June 1968




"For half an hour last night 200 people sat waiting for the ‘happening’ promised at Cardiff’s Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre by the Japanese avant garde artist, Yoko Ono.
Then they realised that it had ‘happened’. A huge photograph of Miss Ono staring limply from the stage of the lecture theatre was the evening’s entertainment for which the organisers - the 56 Group of Welsh Artists - had paid 50 guineas.
Earlier in the evening a chauffeur-driven car had delivered two photographs and a one word message, ‘Fly’, to Mr. Keith Richardson Jones, lecturer at Newport College of Art, who was waiting outside the lecture theatre for Miss Ono to arrive.
As the audience, mainly art students, waited for the Japanese artist - who has been involved in ‘happenings’ all over the world - to arrive, Mr. Richardson Jones carried the 2ft. square portrait on to the stage and popped it up on a piano.
It was 40 minutes before the audience realised that the happening had happened and it was time to go home. As they left they were refunded their 5s. entrance fees.
But the organisers were quite satisfied that they had received value for money. ‘We half expected that she would not turn up,’ said Mr. Richardson Jones.
Miss Ono was expected to have been involved personally in a performance of her famous ‘happenings’. In London two years ago she invited members of the audience to cut off all her clothes.
She recently made a film based entirely on shots of naked human bottoms.
Footnote: Before the last student had left for home, one member of the audience put his shoe in the middle of the floor ... and they all watched it for a while."
(Mario Basini, Western Mail, 15 June 1968)

Tuesday 10 June 2008

What's Welsh for Performance? DATABASE ONLINE

1965: Happenings in Cardiff
1968: Fluxus in Aberystwyth
1968: Yoko Ono at the National Museum of Wales
1969: Destruction in Art in Swansea
1970: Performance Art at Barry Summer School
1974: Experimental Theatre in Cardiff with Moving Being, Cardiff Lab and the Keith Wood Group
1977: Joseph Beuys and Paul Davies at the National Eisteddfod Wrexham
1994: Cardiff Art in Time and Grey Suit...

The What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'Performance' yn Gymraeg? database is an online searchable resource documenting nearly 2000 performance events in Wales from January 1965 to the present day.
VISIT: http://www.performance-wales.org/english/archive/database.htm
For a full list of the artists currently represented
VISIT: http://www.performance-wales.org/english/archive/database/artists.htm
The database went online in the autumn of 2007.

Sunday 8 June 2008

62.7 MHz (Eddie Ladd)

MA Practising Performance
Group production 2008
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
62.7MHz
Devised by / Dyfeisiwyd gan: Ffion Jones, Carmel George, Alison Matthews,
Rhiannon Morgan, Tom Payne
Directed by / Cyfarwyddwyd gan: Eddie Ladd (www.eddieladd.com)
DJ: Steffan Cravos (DJ Lambchops, ex-Tystion)
Friday Dydd Gwener 23 May Mai and Saturday Dydd Sadwrn 24 May Mai
Showings- Broadcasts / Sioeau - Darllediadau: 6pm and 7.30pm
Two live pieces for radio. Dau ddarn byw ar gyfer y radio.
6pm A journey in real time. Taith mewn amser go
iawn.
7.30pm An evening DJ radio mix. Cyfuniad radio gan droellwr yn y
nos.

Admission is FREE.
Audience numbers are limited - please book in advance by emailing:
Emma Hayward
Mynediad AM DDIM.
Mae llefydd yn y gynulleidfa yn brin - archebwch o flaen llaw drwy e-bostio:
Emma Hayward
Location: Foundry Studio, Parry Williams Building.
Lleoliad: Y Ffowndri, Adeilad Parry Williams.

Saturday 7 June 2008

Awst & Walther: Beyond the Comfort Zone (Oriel Mostyn)

Awst & Walter
BEYOND THE COMFORT ZONE
at Oriel Mostyn Gallery (Llandudno)
Saturday 7th June from 6pm
The exhibition continues to 24th June
Open from 10am - 1pm and 1.30pm - 5pm, Tuesday - Saturday
www.mostyn.org
www.awst-walther.com

Saturday 31 May 2008

Improvisation and Partnering Skills workshop (Abercych)

The Poetry of Motion
Improvisation and Partnering Skills with Kirstie Simson and Christian Burns
plus early morning yoga with Julia Baldock.
Abercych, South West Wales
31st May to 7th June
more info below
to book contact Stirling: 01239 841488 or stirling.steward@virgin.net

Thursday 29 May 2008

threshold - Marc Rees / Volcano (Swansea, Newport)

Volcano Theatre Company presents Unknown Pleasures #1
threshold
directed by Marc Rees
SWANSEA | Taliesin Arts Centre | Thu 29 - Sat 31 May | 7:30pm
NEWPORT | Riverfront Arts Centre | Mon 2 & Tue 3 June | 7:30pm
Featuring Wendy Houstoun and John Rowley
And introducing Stephen Donnelly and Rachel Walsh
Design by Suzi Dorey
UNKNOWN PLEASURES is a series of exciting experiments in theatre by Volcano Theatre Company, Taliesin Arts Centre and Swansea Metropolitan University. This innovative partnership is bringing together Wales’s finest artists and its best emerging talents. Unknown Pleasures is a new wellspring of vitality in contemporary theatre. You saw it here first!
www.volcanotheatre.co.uk

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Announcement: Simon Whitehead Performance Project (WID) (Aberystwyth)

Simon Whitehead: 28 - 30 May, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 10 am - 3.45 pm
Fee: £20
This course will be a three-day exploration in the studio and built
environment surrounding Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Simon will introduce
a place sensitive approach to making movement performance and share
practical methods of documentation. Video documentation, writing,
images will be presented at an informal sharing on Friday 30 May.
To book your place on the course please contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 01970 623232.

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Holy Hiatus (Cardigan; Aberteifi)

Holy Hiatus
Ritual and Community in Public Art

Symposium Saturday 24th May, Small World Theatre 9.30 - 5.30.
The symposium is free, to book contact Ruth Jones info@holyhiatus.co.uk
Lunch provided @£6 per head

Holy Hiatus is a series of temporary public art projects and events curated by Ruth Jones taking place in Cardigan between 21st and 31st May 2008. The project focuses on social ritual and identity, community and public places. Holy Hiatus refers to the crossing of the threshold between outer and inner consciousness and the artworks and events will explore the vital role that ritual plays in social interaction, stressing the importance of ‘liminal’ or in-between spaces and experiences, where personal and social identities may be creatively transformed. There are three strands to the project:

• Five commissioned new works by the artists Alastair MacLennan, Maura Hazelden, Simon Whitehead, Anna Lucas, Yvonne Buchheim
• A symposium organised in collaboration with Dr. Heike Roms from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth and LAND2, University of West England
• A bilingual publication to document and contextualise the project published by Parthian in 2009.

For more information about the project see www.holyhiatus.co.uk

Culture Colony – Y Wladfa Newydd

Culture Colony – Y Wladfa Newydd
a new cultural networking experience dedicated to the arts and culture of Wales and Welsh people around the world
www.culturecolony.com

Saturday 10 May 2008

Announcement: an-Aesthetic exhibition and symposium at tactileBOSCH (Cardiff)

an-Aesthetic
a Hybrid exhibition at tactileBOSCH Cardiff
11th May to 31st May 2008
Private View: Saturday 10th May 6.30 – 9.00pm
Curated by Mandee Gage
with Mandee Gage, Anna Dumitriu, Angela Rumble, David Jane, Myrtle Clark Bremer, Heather Barnett, Andrew Cooper, David Cushway

New Sensations Symposium – Art, Science and Healthcare
31st May 2008 10am – 5pm

tactileBOSCH gallery, Andrews Road, Cardiff CF11 6LH
Tel: 07951 256255 / 02920 384959
www.tactilebosch.org / www.hybrid-art.org

Tuesday 6 May 2008

Framework Social birthday party (Swansea)

One year anniversary of Framewok Social
For this special Framework Social we are putting together a 'best of' which celebrates the success of the event and gives thanks to those who have contributed over the past year. Featuring performance work, poetry, the ever compulsory Bingo and a special birthday song written by the Social's favourite, Joan Jones. Plus a buffet!
with: Esther Pilkington, Gareth Llyr Evans
Tuesday May 6th, 7.30pm St.James Social Club St.James Crescent, Swansea
£3 entry (to cover the cost of the event)
http://www.axisweb.org/artist/framework

Saturday 3 May 2008

Announcement: Performance by John Court (Cardiff)

John Court [Finland] ART TRA Sat. 3rd May 2008 duration performance 11.00 - 19.00
ART TRA will be a durational piece of 8 hours that expresses physically the frustration and confusion dyslexia causes for me. It will be a continuation of the body of work I have produced over the last ten years as a performance artist using the materials of traditional image making from the history of art: pencils, erasers, paper and paint.
Instead of a conventional statement, I am submitting an illustration of dyslexia: all and any of these permutations of the word art can appear to be identical to someone who suffers from dyslexia.
4th - 31st May 2008 installation exhibition [call for appointment]
TRACE: Installaction Artspace 26 Moira Place Cardiff CF24 0ET
t: +44 [0] 2920 407338 www.tracegallery.org

Friday 2 May 2008

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance? (Aberystwyth)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 'Cyber/Stage - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales'
New Platforms :: Convergence, CYFRWNG 2008 CONFERENCE, Aberystwyth University, National Library Of Wales, 2 May 2008 11.45am
Llwyfannau Newydd :: Cydgyfeiriant, CYNHADLEDD CYFRWNG 2008, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 2 Mai 2008 - 11.45am
http://www.cyfrwng.com/e/conference/

Announcement: Kathryn Ashill & Owen Griffiths (Swansea)

Ground: Kathryn Ashill & Owen Griffiths

Oriel Lliw Gallery, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea
Curated by Tim Davies

This exhibition is the first in an ongoing and
evolving project that draws together young and
emerging artists whose work in some way responds to
the natural or built environment.

Private view on Friday 2nd May 7 - 9pm.
The exhibition continues until 31st May.

Friday 25 April 2008

Announcement: Kim Fielding installation (Cardiff)

Kim Fielding: Boxjob
Fri 25 April 7pm Preview: with live performance
installation: Sat 26 April - Sat 3 May 1-5pm Chapter, Cardiff

Kim Fielding’s work hovers in a flickering shadow-world of dark and light. He creates fascinating portraits on video, printed image and projection, focusing on male figures in a state of performance, stripped bare as angel, animal or other imagined creatures. His work is rooted in the sinister side of humanity: "humour found in the most bizarre, beauty in the most abject objects, terribly dark and intimate".
www.chapter.org

Datblygu: Peel Sessions

Datblygu: Y Llwch ar eich Sgrin
- Noson o ffilmiau i lansio y CD newydd Datblygu: Peel Sessions 1987-1993 (ankst 119)
Ffilmie gan Marc Evans, Peter Telfer, Emyr Glyn Williams.
7.30pm 25 Ebrill 2008 - Sinema y Drwm, Llyrgell Genedlaethol, Aberystwyth

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance?

Heike Roms: What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'performance' yn Gymraeg?
Presentation to a group of international curators as part of a series of events accompanying Artes Mundi 3, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 22 April 2008.

Sunday 20 April 2008

Announcement: Richard Bowers (Penarth)

Richard Bowers: Marginalia Part 1: How the Words Came into Being
Sunday 20th April Between 3pm and 5pm then on 20th April-20th May Round Room, Washington Gallery, Penarth.
www.washingtongallery.co.uk
Large-scale images create a backcloth for a drama of sound: an exploration of the transitions between intelligible vocal utterance and noise.
Track the progress of 'Marginalia' at marginalia.richardbowers.co.uk

Friday 18 April 2008

Phil Babot: of Wales (Cardiff)

Phil Babot: of Wales
The culmination of a series of perambulations with visitations

Preview (with live action): Friday, 18 April 2008
6-9pm

Exhibition continues from 19 April - 26 April. Viewing by appointment: 07968 770 684
tactileBOSCH Old Victoria Buildings, Andrew's Road, Cardiff

Announcement: Jennie Savage - A Million Moments

A Million Moments by Jennie Savage.
A site specific film made for Wyndham Arcade.
Screenings: 18th April, at 8, 830 and 9pm. Duration: 20 minutes.
Spaces are limited so please book in advance arcade@g39.org
Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff CF10 1FH.

A Million Moments will also be screened in the Project space at g39 Wed - Sat 11-5.30pm to the 5th May.

A Million Moments is the first part of the Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary, a series of the artist's explorations across Cardiff's arcades. For more information visit:www.arcadesproject.org

Monday 14 April 2008

Cafe Artistique in Wales (Swansea, Cardiff, Aberystwyth)

Cafe Artistique is an initiative developed by Axis to stimulate discussion and critical debate in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.

Cafe 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 (cafe/bar) and a local artist is commissioned to respond to each discussion.
Events are free, and all interested are welcome.

Forthcoming Cafe Artistique events
Swansea
14 April 2008, 7.30pm St James Social Club
With guest speaker Mark McGowan and artists-in-residence Framework

Cardiff
21 April 2008, 7.30pm Dempseys (upstairs)
With guest speaker Doug Fishbone and artist-in-residence Paul Hurley

Aberystwyth
28 April 2008, 7.30pm Aberystwyth Art Centre
With guest speaker JJ Charlesworth and artists-in-residence Miranda Whall, Ashley Wallington and Tom Payne

http://www.axisweb.org/atATCL.aspx?AID=856

Saturday 12 April 2008

Blaengar Social (Aberystwyth)

Come and join Blaengar artists group for an informal evening of art, music and discussion. 8.30-10.30pm at 'Her Dandy Wolf' on Eastgate St, Aberystwyth Saturday night 12th April.
If you would like to contribute art, music or performance to the evening please contact Alice Briggs (curator) as soon as possible.
Blaengar are an artist led organisation producing art in the landscape and built environment.
mail@alicebriggs.co.uk
www.blaengar.org

Monday 7 April 2008

Soozy Roberts: Eat Art (Cardiff)

Soozy Roberts: EAT ART
7 April, from 7pm
video works and performance
Milgi, City Road, Cardiff

eat for art is a campaign to support arts organisations in Wales. Soozy will be serving up tasty grub, prepared by the Milgi chef, at affordable prices and the proceeds will go to the Glyn Vivian Young Artist Award, which soozy herself has won.

In addition to Soozy’s kitchen there will be live performances in the lounge area and in our infamous yurt. Our video gallery will also be screening a selection of Soozy’s video work, which will continue to be screened until the 30th of May 2008.

Saturday 5 April 2008

Jo Shapland: (in)scape, Llandudno


Jo Shapland:(in)scape

Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
http://www.mostyn.org/home.php?/Home




There is a special part of the Oriel Mostyn website that has been set up to track the project’s development: http://www.mostyn.org/home.php?/inscape/overview

Friday 4 April 2008

Mem Morrison - Leftovers
4 April/Ebrill- 8pm
Wales Millenium Centre/ Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru
Cardiff/ Caerdydd
08700 40 2000
www.wmc.org.uk
Post-Show Talk

Thursday 3 April 2008

Announcement: workshop residency (Cardiff)

YUBIWA Hotel Exchange workshop residency 7-12 April, Chapter, Cardiff
For more information and to apply contact James Tyson, Theatre Programmer, Chapter Arts Centre, tel. +44 (0)29 20311050
Performances: YUBIWA Hotel: Exchange, Thu 3 — Sat 5 April 8pm http://www.chapter.org/12571.html

Tuesday 1 April 2008

Call: work for Framework Social (April)

the next framework social is on tuesday april 1st at st.james social club in swansea. we are looking for
video; installation; participatory works; intervention; spoken word; live work; collaboration
contact frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk
www.myspace.com/frameworkswansea

Friday 28 March 2008

Announcement: Whitehead & Oliver


Simon Whitehead and Barnaby Oliver: PINGS
PINGS springs directly from the geographical distance between two collaborators. Working from their locales they explore the physical space between them through rivers and air and a range of other terrains with their own qualities, such as the web, phone, post, and less tangible links of memory and synchronicity.
You may visit the project archive online, and subscribe to PINGS as a podcast / rss 2 feed, at http://www.untitledstates.net/pings

Thursday 27 March 2008

The Acts - Vigia

The latest performance by Jill Greenhalgh, with an international cast of twelve women, is a response to a brutal sequence of events near the USA border in northern Mexico. Part of an investigation undertaken through a Creative Wales award.

* THE ACTS - VIGIA
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th March, 8.00pm
* DIRECTOR'S TALK (Jill Greenhalgh)
Saturday 29th, 3.00pm
* SENORITA EXTRAVIADA (documentary film)
Wednesday 26th March, 6.30pm
* ON THE EDGE (documentary film)
Thursday 27th March, 6.30pm
* I WATCHED HER UNTIL SHE DISAPPEARED
Thursday 27th - Friday 28th March, 5.00 - 9.00pm
Devised and performed by Maria Sanchez Portillo, Paul Jeff and Emanuela Contini.
Tickets from Chapter Arts Centre: 02920 304400
More information: http://www.chapter.org/12562.html

Tuesday 25 March 2008

Announcement: Volcano Theatre (Swansea)

Volcano Theatre: What Am I Doing Here?
The Opportunity of a lifetime:a new life in a better place.Will you be allowed in?
Tue 25 - Sat 29 March 2008| £10/£6 | 01792 602060
A bus leaves Taliesin Arts Centre at 7.30pm
(Performers include Mr and Mrs Clark)

Saturday 15 March 2008

Announcement: Presentation (New York)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION:
Heike Roms: Remembering Performance– An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales
Oral History and Performance: OHMAR 2008 Spring Conference, Columbia University, New York; Saturday 15 March 2008, 9am
More information here

Tuesday 11 March 2008

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

March 11th, St James Jazz Club, St James Crescent, Uplands Swansea.
£2.00 Entry (non profit, covering costs)
At the slightly later time of 7.30pm

Joe Dunthorne; Mark Love; Daniel Ladnar;
Joan Jones.

Saturday 8 March 2008

Announcement: Fritz Welsh at trace (Wales)


Fritz Welch [USA]
Slow Burn
Sat. 8th March 2008
duration performance 14.00 - 19.00 - closing action 18.00 - 19.00
New season of performance art & installation - TRACE Cardiff -
trace: installaction artspace - 26 Moira Place Cardiff CF24 0ET
www.tracegallery.org

Friday 7 March 2008

Announcement: Creative Wales award 2008


The following Wales-based artists with a performance practice have won the prestigious Creative Wales award 2008:
André Stitt (Creative Wales Major Awards); John Rowley (Creative Wales Awards)

The full list of award winners 2008:
CREATIVE WALES MAJOR AWARDS:
Applied Arts and Crafts: Walter Keeler
Visual Arts: Tim Davies, Anthony Shapland, André Stitt
Dance: Darius James
Drama: Tim Baker, Kaite O'Reilly
Literature: Menna Elfyn, Robert Minhinnick

CREATIVE WALES AWARDS:
Visual Arts: Richard Powell, John Rowley
Music: Richard James, Jeremy Huw Williams
Drama: Gary Owen, Ian Rowlands
Literature: Richard Gwyn

More details here

Friday 22 February 2008

Announcement: Improvised and Semi-improvised Music (Cardiff)


The In Transit Ensemble, Harpist-improviser Rhodri Davies, and improvising trio Taina Niemela, Ody Constantinou and Louie O'Grady.
An evening of improvised and semi-improvised music.
7.30pm, feb 23rd, Canton Uniting Church, Cowbridge Road East, Canton, Cardiff
Entry £6.00/4.00
http://www.intransit.moonfruit.com/

Announcement: Excavations

Excavations | Cloddiadau
Artists responses to the gas pipeline.
Ymatebion artistiaid i’r biben nwy.

Friday 22nd February - 15th March
Oriel Lliw, Pontardawe Arts Centre, Pontardawe
(To be opened by Iwan Bala Friday 22nd February 6-8pm)
a Framework exhibition with work by Owen Griffiths, Dan McCabe, Dave Phillips, Tom O'Sullivan, Fern Thomas, Adele Vye and Paul Woodland with guest artist Kathryn Ashill.

live work, documented performance, video, drawing, installation and performative interventions

http://sites.a-n.co.uk/interface/whatson/preview/403525
www.myspace.com/frameworkswansea

Thursday 21 February 2008

Arts Council of Wales cuts

The following performance-related organisations have lost their annual revenue funding this year - if you want to support their case please visit their websites and sign their petitions:
Centre for Performance Research www.thecpr.org.uk
Dawns Dyfed www.dawnsdyfed.co.uk
St Donats Arts Centre www.stdonats.com
Wyeside Arts Centre www.wyeside.co.uk

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

Framework Social
a space for artists to meet and socialise
Tuesday February 12th
St.James Social Club, St.James Crescent, Swansea
7.00pm - £2 entry

Includes work from performance artist Lydia White, films from Undercurrents, Adam Vaughan and his interactive photography, the debut of 'Barrie Hole's Hitlist' and their performative stylophone mastery, BINGO!, and Framework's first ever poet in residence, Graham.

NOTE: FRAMEWORK is asking people to dress up for the occasion

Thursday 7 February 2008

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance?


This talk introduces What’s Welsh for Performance? - Beth yw ‘performance’ yn Gymraeg?, a research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of performance art in Wales between 1968 and 2008. The talk will consider the current ‘archive fever’ in performance practice, scholarship and curatorship. It will then focus on the two main strands of the Welsh performance archive: an online searchable database (www.performance-wales.org) and a publicly staged Oral History series.

At National Review of Live Art
07/02/2008 20:00 - 21:00
Glasgow - Tramway 2 0845 330 3501
Information: http://www.newmoves.co.uk/tracedisplaced-dr.heikeroms.aspx

Wednesday 6 February 2008

Trace: Displaced at the National Review of Live Art


...A free-standing structure [plasterboard on wood frame] will be built. This will be a scaled replication of the ‘domestic’ TRACE install-action artspace situated in an inhabited terrace house in Cardiff.
During each day for a period of 3 hours [16.00 - 19.00] the artists will engage in an ongoing dialogue with the installation, navigating it’s physicality and making interventions upon its structure.
The public will have full access throughout to experience the ‘live’ activity and the resulting installation/evidence and residual traces.
Simultaneous reportage will be created during the daily activity. Text/reports will be posted and an information table will be available throughout.
The seemingly left-over or discarded matter from performance activity is offered up for contemplation and reflection. In bringing together these discreet elements one becomes aware of a certain unity of practice; a living archive centred on process, events and experiences. ‘traces’ that embody that fragile quality where the object itself is imbued with the performance that created it....
With: Trace Collective (Phil Babot, Beth Greenhalgh, Lee Hassall, Heike Roms, André Stitt) and Roddy Hunter

National Review of Live Art
DATES
06/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
07/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
08/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
09/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
Glasgow Tramway 2
0845 330 3501
More information at: http://www.newmoves.co.uk/tracedisplaced.aspx

Friday 1 February 2008

Announcement: Soozy Roberts in conversation (Swansea)



Soozy Roberts In Conversation with Karen MacKinnon at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Friday 1 February 2008 at 1pm.
[more information on Soozy Roberts' current exhibition here]

Announcement: Simon Whitehead Performance Video

Further... Ymhellach...
Simon Whitehead
Performance Video / Fideo Perfformiadau
Dydd Gwener 1 Chwefror, 7yh Friday 1 February, 7pm
Private View Ddangosiad Preifat
Exhibition / Arddangosfa:
Chwefror 2 February - Mawrth 1 March 2008

oriel mwldan
Theatr Mwldan, Aberteifi/ Cardigan, SA43 1JY

Thursday 24 January 2008

Announcement: Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - with Phil Babot, Andre Stitt and Simon Whitehead


Thu 24 January 2008
6pm
Space Workshop, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0
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ADMISSION FREE.

The contemporary performance art scene in Wales is one of the most active anywhere in the UK. Over the past few years a number of artist-run spaces and networks have developed which support this scene: trace: installaction artspace and tactileBOSCH (Cardiff), Coed Hills Rural Artspace (Cowbridge), ointment collective (Pembrokeshire), Real Institute (Llanrwst), Blaengar (Aberystwyth) and the Wales-wide Second Wednesday Group contribute to the current diversity and vibrancy of Welsh performance. If one aspect unites them, it is a shared concern with the place(s) of performance, its physical, geographic and social location.

Three of Wales's most prolific contemporary performance artists, Phil Babot, André Stitt and Simon Whitehead, will be in conversation about the contemporary performance art scene, the role of artist-run spaces and networks and the significance of place in performance.

As a creator of 'live occurrences', Phil Babot is affiliated with a number of artist-run spaces in Wales, including trace:, tactileBOSCH and Coed Hills. Belfast-born André Stitt is considered one of Europe's formost performance artists. A professor at Cardiff School of Art, he founded trace: installaction artspace in 2000. Movement artist Simon Whitehead has developed a body of performance work based on pedestrian practices from his base in rural Wales. He is a founding member of ointment.

Wednesday 23 January 2008

Announcement: good cop bad cop


Premiere of a new performance work, Phantom Ride, by good cop bad cop
Chapter Arts Centre - Wed 23 - Fri 25 January 9pm
Box office 029 2030 4400
www.chapter.org

Monday 21 January 2008

Artists. Resource. Cardiff


A new artist-led initiative for the visual arts scene in Cardiff: news, members profiles, forum and calendar of events.
visit: http://www.artcardiff.com
Launch: Model Inn, Quay Street Cardiff 1 February 2008 8pm till 2am

Saturday 19 January 2008

Announcement: Soozy Roberts (Swansea)


Soozy Roberts, Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist Award 2007
Room 1, 19 January - 23 March 2008.
Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea
Amongst other works the exhibition will include Miraculous Myfanwy, in which Robert performs synchronised swimming in a derelict outdoor swimming pool, and Hairy Face (2007) in which the artist, in a deadpan fashion, covers her face with hair, until it is completely obscured.
More information here

Saturday 12 January 2008

Announcement: Medi(t)ation


Medi(t)ation opens on January 12th at 7pm.

Opening Night performance by Jo Shapland and Julie Turner at 7.30pm
St Dogmaels Gallery 01239 612 677
www.saintdogmaelsgallery.com