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2009-11-15T00:12:00.001Z

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Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968-2008

2008-11-29T23:03:00.004Z

"...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.

Mapping Performance Art in Cardiff

2008-10-19T21:31:00.000+01:00

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

Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968

2008-09-10T17:12:00.000+01:00

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

Simon Whitehead Locator 18 (Pentre Ifan)

2008-08-14T12:43:00.003+01:00

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.)

Experimentica: Open Call for Submissions (Cardiff)

2008-07-11T18:21:00.001+01:00

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

The Museum Of The Moment Workshop (Cardiff)

2008-06-29T09:01:00.001+01:00

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

Showroom (Aberystwyth)

2008-06-26T10:07:00.002+01:00

- 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

Bossa Nova - tactileBOSCH (Cardiff)

2008-06-14T18:10:00.001+01:00

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

2008-06-14T10:17:00.002+01:00

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)

What's Welsh for Performance? DATABASE ONLINE

2008-06-10T17:07:00.000+01:00

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.

62.7 MHz (Eddie Ladd)

2008-06-08T18:31:00.003+01:00

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.

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

2008-06-07T17:55:00.002+01:00

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

Improvisation and Partnering Skills workshop (Abercych)

2008-05-31T18:29:00.000+01:00

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

threshold - Marc Rees / Volcano (Swansea, Newport)

2008-05-29T18:25:00.000+01:00

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

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

2008-05-28T12:40:00.001+01:00

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.

Holy Hiatus (Cardigan; Aberteifi)

2008-05-21T16:37:00.003+01:00

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

2008-05-21T13:15:00.000+01:00

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

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

2008-05-10T12:49:00.002+01:00

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

Framework Social birthday party (Swansea)

2008-05-06T12:58:00.002+01:00

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

Announcement: Performance by John Court (Cardiff)

2008-05-03T11:01:00.001+01:00

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

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

2008-05-02T13:34:00.000+01:00

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)

2008-05-02T13:03:00.004+01:00

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.

Announcement: Kim Fielding installation (Cardiff)

2008-04-25T18:30:00.001+01:00

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

2008-04-25T13:10:00.000+01:00

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

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance?

2008-04-22T14:30:00.001+01:00

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.

Announcement: Richard Bowers (Penarth)

2008-04-20T18:09:00.000+01:00

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

Phil Babot: of Wales (Cardiff)

2008-04-18T20:26:00.002+01:00

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

2008-04-18T18:02:00.001+01:00

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

Cafe Artistique in Wales (Swansea, Cardiff, Aberystwyth)

2008-04-14T20:21:00.003+01:00

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

Blaengar Social (Aberystwyth)

2008-04-12T16:26:00.000+01:00

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

Soozy Roberts: Eat Art (Cardiff)

2008-04-07T16:00:00.001+01:00

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.

Jo Shapland: (in)scape, Llandudno

2008-04-05T16:31:00.000+01:00

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

2008-04-04T17:03:00.002+01:00

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

Announcement: workshop residency (Cardiff)

2008-04-03T16:37:00.002+01:00

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

Call: work for Framework Social (April)

2008-04-01T16:43:00.000+01:00

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

Announcement: Whitehead & Oliver

2008-03-28T13:09:00.003Z

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

The Acts - Vigia

2008-03-27T16:47:00.003Z

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

Announcement: Volcano Theatre (Swansea)

2008-03-25T17:00:00.002Z

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)

Announcement: Presentation (New York)

2008-03-15T09:00:00.001Z

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

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

2008-03-11T11:12:00.001Z

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.

Announcement: Fritz Welsh at trace (Wales)

2008-03-08T11:15:00.001Z

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

Announcement: Creative Wales award 2008

2008-03-07T11:39:00.002Z

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

Announcement: Improvised and Semi-improvised Music (Cardiff)

2008-02-22T12:24:00.007Z

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

2008-02-22T12:19:00.002Z

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

Arts Council of Wales cuts

2008-02-21T11:33:00.000Z

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

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

2008-02-12T15:27:00.001Z

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

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance?

2008-02-07T15:45:00.000Z

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

Trace: Displaced at the National Review of Live Art

2008-02-06T15:32:00.000Z

...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

Announcement: Soozy Roberts in conversation (Swansea)

2008-02-01T11:27:00.003Z

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

2008-02-01T11:05:00.001Z

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

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

2008-01-24T12:06:00.001Z

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

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.

Announcement: good cop bad cop

2008-01-23T12:04:00.001Z

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

Artists. Resource. Cardiff

2008-01-21T11:56:00.001Z

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

Announcement: Soozy Roberts (Swansea)

2008-01-19T11:23:00.003Z

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

Announcement: Medi(t)ation

2008-01-12T11:59:00.002Z

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

Announcement: Workshop with Susan Schell

2007-12-04T13:13:00.002Z

s p i r i t e d n w y f u s
A four day (5 night) residential study lab
with Susan Schell
in the village and wooded valley of Abercych, South West Wales
4th - 7th December 2007 (arrival evening 3rd, depart morning 8th)
Cost: £250-£300 (inclusive of self-catering accommodation on a nearby farm)
More info/to book
stirling.steward@virgin.net

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

2007-11-22T15:32:00.001Z

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

Announcement: Exhibition and Performances in Cardiff

2007-11-16T15:15:00.001Z

Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion: with Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan, Tatsumi Orimoto
Curated by André Stitt
Preview: Friday 16 November 2007
Exhibition: Saturday 17 November 2007 – Sunday 13 January 2008

‘Flashes From the Archives of Oblivion’ brings together four pioneers of the performance genre with established practices that date back to the 1960s. The exhibition will explore elements of each artist’s practice in relation to the discourse that surrounds the documentation of performance art.

Performances:
Each of the artists will give a performance at Chapter during the opening weekend of the exhibition.
Tatsumi Orimoto and Ian Hinchliffe, Friday 16 November / 6-9pm
Alastair MacLennan and Stuart Brisley, Saturday 17 November
www.chapter.org

Announcement: tactileBOSCH (Cardiff)

2007-11-11T15:21:00.001Z

DARK VICTORY…
Helps celebrate the Death of Humanity. Drawing tactile BOSCH's Addiction Project to a final conclusion with ‘through the lens media' LIVEart, words and sound. Facilitating the answers to the notion of ADDICTION with its connotation of live fast, die young but of course leaving a beautiful corpse.
Whether Macbeth or Blade Runner, Mango or Pear, DARK VICTORY visualises ‘heroic' struggles and remembered choices, Embracing personal stumbling or taking an indulgent stroll in the forbidden forest, each soul [survivor] embraces their individual taste & reasoning in terms of Addiction...As they say ‘whatever floats that inner boat'.

With: Filmmakers – Photographers - Architects - Writers & a plethora of LIVE Performances - caught through the lens [entrapment neatly priced]

Sun 11/11/07 – Sun 09/12/07 / Open: daily Wed – Sat [2-7pm]
www.tactilebosch.org

Announcement: Framework Social, Swansea

2007-11-06T21:42:00.001Z

Framework Social - down the social
a space for artists to meet and socialise
Tuesday 6th November
7pm / £2 entry
St.James Social Club, St.James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea
with work from artists Alex Duncan, Jonathan Anderson, Neil and Anna Barratt.

Announcement: Café Artistique event

2007-11-05T12:27:00.001Z

The next Cafe Artistique will be taking place in the main bar at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Monday 5 November, starting at 7.30pm.
The event is free and there is no need to book.
Leading the discussion will be performance artist Lucienne Cole who will introduce her work and talk about art in and with the public; and art as entertainment. Entertainment as opposed to...?
After the discussion there will be a performance by artists-in-residence Miranda Whall, Ashley Wallington and Tom Payne, who all live and work in Aberystwyth.

Announcement: Mr & Mrs Clark

2007-11-02T13:10:00.001Z

Friday 2 November 2007
with Framework
as part of Swansea Fringe Festival
Elysium Contemporary Art Space, 41 High Street, Swansea
Swansea's newest contemporary art space, Elysium Gallery, (41 High St., Swansea), will be hosting a Dylan Thomas Fringe Event this Friday 2nd November at 7pm where Cardiff based artists 'Mr and Mrs Clark' will be doing a live performance work and members of (Swansea's own) 'Framework' will be showing experimental & innovative live work, installation, intervention and process-led investigative work.

Announcement: talk in Bristol

2007-11-01T11:53:00.000Z

PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE: Works Past to Present
Research Event at University of Bristol Department of Drama

This dialogue will launch the three-year Great Western
Research project, "Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past", which
is based in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection's Live Art
Archives and Arnolfini Live's archives, partnered with Exeter University
Department of Drama.

WORKS PAST TO PRESENT
THEATRE, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA
Cantock's Close
1st NOVEMBER, 5.15 - 7.00pm

Dr Heike Roms & Professor Mike Pearson,
Performance Studies, Dept Theatre, Film & TV Studies, Aberystwyth
University,
will present two ongoing research projects devoted to archiving performance:

"What's Welsh for Performance?" An Archive of Performance Art in Wales
and "The Brith Gof Archive Project".

All welcome, hope to see you there.

announcement: performance in Llanrwst

2007-10-25T12:50:00.002+01:00

Golygfa Gwydyr yn cylflwyno cynhyrchiad Cynefin .
Golyfa Gwydyr presents a Cynefin production;
YSBRYDNOS

Hydref 25-31 October
Caerdroia,Coedwig Gwydir Forest, Llanrwst, Conwy
The clocks go back, as we go forward into the impending darkness.
The summer a faint memory as we venture into the castle of turns, that leads to a door. On the other side is the unknown and unknowable. Do you open it?

Announcement: Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - with J.Alexander, G.Moore and M.Pearson

2007-10-18T13:48:00.005+01:00

Thu 18 October 2007
6pm Cardiff School of Art and Design
Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore, Mike Pearson

::in conversation about their work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1970s and 1980s and their involvement in Chapter Arts Centre.

In English.Admission free.to reserve a place contact: mail@performance-wales.org
Space Workshop, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0SP

http://www.performance-wales.org

Announcement: Marc Rees (Swansea, Cardiff)

2007-10-18T13:43:00.000+01:00

Gloria Days
Marc Rees returns from his site specific/installation sojourn with a brand new theatrical work that promises to be his most flamboyant and ambitious project to date. With the support of a world class creative team including opera designer John MacFarlane and Berlin dance duo Rubato, Marc has created an imaginative, compelling and moving piece of dance theatre inspired by an extraordinary character, the 5th Marquis of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget.
Known as 'The Dancing Marquis', Paget challenged and subverted Edwardian notions of class, gender, decorum and theatrical propriety. His fantastical lifestyle and subsequent unglamorous downfall provides the focus for this unique multi-disciplinary solo work which premieres in Wales this autumn.
Taliesin Arts Centre-18 & 19 October Tickets: 01792 60 20 60
Wales Millennium Centre-24 - 27 October Tickets: 08700 40 20 00

Announcement: talk in Cardiff

2007-10-17T11:58:00.002+01:00

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.

Announcement: tactileBOSCH (Cardiff)

2007-10-16T13:24:00.001+01:00

LAPSE
As part of Addiction and in conjunction with ‘ How Many Steps '
tactile BOSCH invites you to a night of performance.
Featuring both local and international talent, LAPSE presents an evening of live work that is obsessive, process dependent, and downright unpredictable.
With work from:
Beth Greenhalgh, Joost Nieuwenburg, Karl Price, Nezaket Ekici, Rufus Orsborne, Tim Bromage, Rachel Parry

Opening 19:00, 16/10/07 @ tactile BOSCH studios, Andrews Road, Cardiff
http://tactilebosch.org/

Announcement: Experimentica (Cardiff)

2007-10-16T13:17:00.000+01:00

Experimentica 07 is a six day festival of live and time based art at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
16-21 October 2007
Box Office + 44 (0)29 2030 4400 www.chapter.org

Includes:
Goodcopbadcop
Submotion
Gareth Llyr and Louise Ritchie
Mr & Mrs Clark
John Rowley
What's Welsh for Performance
Traw + Emma Macey
Tom Marshman
Deborah Light
Beth Greenhalgh and Sam Hasler
Davida Hewlett and Paul Granjon
Karl Price
Patrick Jones and Dave Lordan
Jeong Geum- Hyung
Rosie Dennis
The Panacea Society
Chris Holtom
Joost Nieuwenburg
Atmen
Neil Davies
Planningtorock
Rowan O'Neill
S.A.A.B
Gwrando
Helena Hunter
Guy Mason and Ian Wiblin
Dave Marchant
Richard O'Sullivan
Silas Money
Suzy Roberts
www.chapter.org
experimentica07.blogspot.com

Announcement: Brith Gof Archive Project

2007-10-13T13:40:00.001+01:00

BRITH GOF ARCHIVE PROJECT
Event I: Saturday 13 October 10am-4.30pm
Gwthio'r ffiniau: Ymfudwyr (1983), Gernika! (1983) Rhydcymerau (1984)
The Foundry Studio, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth

Event 2: Saturday 1 December 10am-4.30pm
Pax: Aberystwyth Railway Station (1991)
Y Drwm, National Library of Wales; Aberystwyth Station

Events are organised by Prof Mike Pearson and Margaret Ames.

Announcement: amperSAND (Swansea)

2007-10-10T12:36:00.001+01:00

ampersand present
Flesh and Blood Humans
The next amperSAND event will feature Jolyon Webb, Art Manager at TruSim . It takes place on the 10th October at 6.30pm, for a 7.00pm start, at the Dockside Room, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea . The cost of attending is £4.
For full details and booking form go to: http://www.ampersandswansea.com/

40 events in 40 years: 1975

2007-10-06T16:41:00.000+01:00

13/11/1975 - 15/11/1975
Galactic Theatre (i.e. Lacey, Bruce and Bruce, Jill):
Manifestations of Obsessions and Fantasies
Cardiff: Chapter Workshop and Centre for the Arts, Theatre

For more information visit:
http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1975.html

What's Welsh for Performance? Season 2

2007-10-06T15:35:00.000+01:00

what's welsh for performance? - An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales
A two-year series of events devoted to key artists who have shaped the development of performance art in Wales since 1968.

Season 2 (October 2007- January 2008)

Thu 18 October 2007
6pm Cardiff School of Art and Design *
Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore, Mike Pearson
::in conversation about their work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1970s and 1980s and their involvement in Chapter Arts Centre.

Thu 22 November 2007
6pm The Foundry/ Y Ffowndri Aberystwyth **
Richard Gough
::in conversation about alternative approaches to teaching, archiving and publishing performance and on the role of internationalism for performance art in Wales.

Thu 24 January 2008
6pm Cardiff School of Art and Design *
Phil Babot, André Stitt, Simon Whitehead
::in conversation about the contemporary performance art scene, the role of artist-run spaces and networks and the significance of place in performance.

In English.Admission free.
to reserve a place contact: mail@performance-wales.org

Locations
Space Workshop, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0SP
The Foundry, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3AJ

Project: Dr Heike Roms; in collaboration with SHIFTwork Time Based Art Research Group, Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Funded by: The Arts Council of Wales
With support from: University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and Chapter.

Announcement: Filmdance by Jo Shapland

2007-10-06T13:16:00.002+01:00

'A Certain Slant of Light'
opening 6 October 2007, 6.30-9.30 p.m.
Includes Jo Shapland's filmdance 'Soluna'.
St Dogmaels Gallery

Announcement: Artist-in-Residence, CPR

2007-10-06T12:58:00.001+01:00

Artist-in-Residence at Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth
Centre for Performance Research would like to invite an artist to work in
residence to produce work in the organisation's new home, The Foundry. The project is a residency where the artist will use their visual and/or performance skills to respond to the building in an innovative way.
Deadline for applications will be Friday 2nd November 2007.
Public Art Wales/Celf Gyhoeddus Cymru
email: info@cywaithcymru.org
Artist brief and guidelines also available at: www.cywaithcymru.org

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

2007-10-02T13:03:00.001+01:00

FRAMEWORK SOCIAL down the social.
VISUAL EXPERIMENTICA AND CREATIVE EXCHANGE.
Tuesday October 2nd 2007
7pm £2-entrance fee - all proceeds this month to OXFAM
St James Social Club, St James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea
http://www.myspace.com/frameworkswansea

line-up includes: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE : Adam Goodge; THE ART-LIFE Project, John & Hilary;Joan Jones; and others

Presentation: What's Welsh for Performance?

2007-09-28T13:50:00.001+01:00

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

Announcement: Café Artistique events

2007-09-24T12:43:00.001+01:00

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

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

2007-09-22T17:34:00.000+01:00

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

Announcement: Video work, drawings, polaroids wanted

2007-09-19T12:31:00.000+01:00

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

Announcement: Think Club (Swansea)

2007-09-18T13:46:00.001+01:00

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?

40 events in 40 years: 1987

2007-09-17T10:39:00.000+01:00

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

Announcement: Performer wanted

2007-09-16T18:28:00.000+01:00

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

2007-09-16T11:14:00.000+01:00

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

Announcement: Comic Book Exhibition Second Life

2007-09-15T18:34:00.000+01:00

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/

Announcement: Performance by Awst & Walther (Swansea)

2007-09-08T11:09:00.000+01:00

"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

Announcement: Lecture in Poland

2007-09-07T18:23:00.000+01:00

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

Announcement: Framework Social (Swansea)

2007-09-04T11:19:00.001+01:00

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

Announcement: Framework Social - call for artists (Swansea)

2007-08-26T11:34:00.000+01:00

Framework Social - Creative Exchange
a space for artists to meet and socialise and to try out new work in a supportive environment
Call for artists:
Artist in Residence
Video Work
Installation/ Drawing etc (Static Work)
Performance/ Spoken Word/ Action/ Interactive/ Participatory Work
Music/ Sound/ DJs
Please contact frameworkcontact@yahoo.co.uk

Announcement: Conversation transcript (Ivor Davies)

2007-08-09T13:14:00.000+01:00

Remembering Performance- Ivor Davies in conversation with Heike Roms
an edited transcript of the conversation with Ivor Davies held on 12 October 2006 in Cardiff as part of An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales
published in: Platfform (Contemporary performance practice in Wales) tri/3 (August 2007), pp. 13-17.
For copies please contact Wales Arts International
t: + 44 29 2038 3024 f: + 44 29 2039 8778
www.wai.org.uk

Announcement: Framework Social

2007-08-07T12:15:00.001+01:00

Framework Social on Tuesday 7th August at 7pm: with Martin 'Sonny boy' Williams; Daniel McCabe; Joan Jones; Tom O'Sullivan; Lydia White (poetry)and performance work by Fay Crispin.
St James Social club, St James Crescent, Uplands, Swansea.

40 events in 40 years: 1982

2007-08-05T18:55:00.000+01:00

1982
Marty St James and Anne Wilson:
Perfect Moments
Cardiff: Oriel Gallery
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1980s/1982.html

Announcement: art happening in Cardiff

2007-08-01T12:00:00.000+01:00

Welshing: 1. To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager 
2. To cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt 
3. To fail to fulfill an obligation.
Welshing is a four-person project involving a fashion designer, art therapist, illustrator and fine artist. Throughout July the four will develop a creative relationship from a central shared studio. Narratives will be developed between works constructed, promises made and broken, and meanings changed thus reclaiming the defamation of being a Welsher, turning an insult into an admirable property.
Sam Osborne, Amy Ison, Casey Raymond and Lee Campbell
1 - 10 August 2007 at tactileBOSCH
tactileBOSCH Studios www.tactilebosch.org
Andrews Rd Llandaff North Cardiff CF14 2SP
www.welshing.info

40 events in 40 years: 1979

2007-07-29T11:59:00.000+01:00

1979
André Stitt:
In Transit #3
Blaenau Ffestiniog
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1979.html

Announcement: Conversation transcript

2007-07-23T23:30:00.000+01:00

Performance and Protest by Heike Roms
Heike Roms re-visits the international performance art programme at the National Eisteddfod in 1977. In conversation with Timothy Emlyn Jones, John Chris Jones and Andrew Knight, she discusses its attempt to connect a radical art practice with local cultural concerns, as well as its legacy.
new welsh review Issue 76, Summer 2007
Visit http://www.newwelshreview.com/nwr_current.asp to buy a copy for £5.40 + £1.00 p&p

Announcement: Artists wanted for new Swansea artspace

2007-07-23T23:21:00.001+01:00

Announcement: Oil Change

2007-07-20T17:56:00.001+01:00

Exhibition of paintings, video, photographic and live art by Andy Fung,Dafydd Fortt, Alan Rees-Baynes, Kim Fielding, Phil Babot and Ali Simkins, in Cardiff's new artspace Garej (183a Kings Road, Pontcanna).
Opening Friday 20 July at 6pm.
For more information visit http://www.garej.co.uk
[For Barrie J Davies's film document of the opening, including footage of Phil Babot's performance, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31nUL83EnSM

40 events in 40 years: 1978

2007-07-08T17:54:00.000+01:00

09/06/1978 - 10/06/1978
Nigel Rolfe:
Red Tower; The Treatment of Individual Parts
For more information visit http://www.performance-wales.org/40events40years/1970s/1978.html

Announcement: CPR Summer Shift

2007-07-04T17:42:00.001+01:00

CPR Summer Shift: open evenings with guest artists

MIKE PEARSON
Friday 6th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Gwener 6 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
GERALDINE PILGRIM
Saturday 7th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Sadwrn 7 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
RIC JERROM (NATURAL THEATRE)
Wednesday 11th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Mercher 11 Gorffennaf 6.30yh
MARISA CARNESKY
Sunday 15th July 8pm/ Dydd Sul 15 Gorffennaf 8yh
SIMON THORNE & INGRID VON WANTOCH REKOWSKI
Tuesday 17th July 6.30pm/ Dydd Mawrth 17 Gorffennaf 6.30yh

All presentations will be held in the Foundry Studio at the Centre for
Performance Research, Aberystwyth.

For further information on any of these presentations or on our Summer
Shift programmes, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Centre For Performance Research,cprwww@aber.ac.uk; www.thecpr.org.uk