tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64899724610710210572024-02-21T11:29:04.352+00:00It Was Forty Years Ago TodayLocating the early history of performance art in Wales, 1965-1979
www.performance-wales.orgIt was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-58687972066312908402011-06-18T20:18:00.004+01:002011-06-18T20:21:42.552+01:00New WebsiteOur new bilingual website is up and running - containing extracts from over 40 interviews with artists, administrators and audience members and access to a fully searchable database, documenting nearly 700 performance events created in Wales between 1965 and 1979: <a href="http://www.performance-wales.org/it-was-40-years-ago-today/">www.performance-wales.org</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfsyzznhPbMug8WybMeM88WGg8htwAtam474hnp6X3lnR4Qf9XCvz2XLQPhiapz2rwpPSjmDPl5NMs-906BKa3J5Bc9vfngfRe5uIwVzgHajxX8uskfZFfiwp5RFdLSCe39wFioyJOkBt/s1600/project+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfsyzznhPbMug8WybMeM88WGg8htwAtam474hnp6X3lnR4Qf9XCvz2XLQPhiapz2rwpPSjmDPl5NMs-906BKa3J5Bc9vfngfRe5uIwVzgHajxX8uskfZFfiwp5RFdLSCe39wFioyJOkBt/s320/project+image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-78469676376945709022011-06-15T09:06:00.001+01:002011-06-18T20:21:15.246+01:00Website Launch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We are very pleased to announce that the new website and database will be launched this Friday, 17th June at the Cyfrwng Conference in Cardiff. The website includes clips from the 40 solo, sited and group interviews that we've conducted over the past two years with artists, administrators, former art students, teachers and audience members. Our new, updated database can also be found on the website, with information on over 700 events in Wales between 1965 and 1979, including performances, concerts, interventions, teaching events and peformative protests. The database is fully searchable and contains images, memories and other traces of the work that we have discovered during the course of our research. Please take a look, and let us know if you have more information, or if it jogs any memories.<br />
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Finally, Heike and Rebecca would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the project, especially our interviewees who have been so generous with their time and sharing their archives with us - diolch yn fawr!It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-78149677088136024102011-02-21T16:41:00.000+00:002011-02-21T16:41:27.620+00:00Coming towards a closeHeike and Rebecca are coming towards to end of the project, winding down the research and focussing more on the outputs of the online, searchable database and the collection of interviews that will be deposited in various archives.<br />
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We will be releasing more information about this over the coming weeks, and also launching our new website.<br />
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We will also be presenting our findings at various conferences, including the Performance Studies International Conference in Utrecht at the end of May.<br />
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In the meantime, if you would like to contact us, please continue to email <a href="mailto:mail@performance-wales.org">mail@performance-wales.org</a>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-80575244793902172142010-12-14T15:03:00.001+00:002011-02-16T14:37:45.525+00:00Interview with Clive Robertson<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoVH7NgbHGpVW95eE3fO-HH1lF90eAVvtDLJvwO7OeZBJ2ovV2DRS7D9rCnmfDgZ4sY9sOMbe1-HI3kIdJN025dlJ607XjTd65jwI6ouBQdpamI0sed07NY-HFtBSc1ICL22VYZ_lTGa9/s1600/P1011062.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoVH7NgbHGpVW95eE3fO-HH1lF90eAVvtDLJvwO7OeZBJ2ovV2DRS7D9rCnmfDgZ4sY9sOMbe1-HI3kIdJN025dlJ607XjTd65jwI6ouBQdpamI0sed07NY-HFtBSc1ICL22VYZ_lTGa9/s320/P1011062.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Rebecca and Heike met with Clive Robertson this week in London; Clive is an artist, critic and publisher, now based at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.<br />
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After studying at Plymouth and Liverpool art colleges, Clive went to Cardiff College of Art in 1967, in part attracted by the new teaching approaches being pioneered by Tom Hudson and his colleagues. He recalled Robin Page, a Fluxus artist, coming to Cardiff to give his <em>Action Lecture on War</em> as part of the regular symposiums held by the college. Clive also talked about his own work, more information of which can be found on our database. Clive went on to complete at MFA at Reading University before moving to Canada and establishing the W.O.R.K.S.R.E.P.O.R.T. - more information on this can be found on Clive's webpage (click on the title to this blog entry above).It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-73423328087370007852010-12-08T15:42:00.017+00:002011-02-15T15:54:54.635+00:00Interview with Cameron & Miller<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Heike and Rebecca travelled to a very cold, snowy Sheffield this week to meet with Shirley Cameron and Roland Miller. Cameron and Miller have performed together for over forty years, and during the early 1970s were based in Swansea. The photo here was taken during the Swansea One Week College of Art, which was attended by a number of our other contributors as art students, and a number of famous names including Jeff Nuttall, Marc Chaimowicz and Ken Campbell.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Heike has interviewed them before about their work as part of the 'What's Welsh For Performance' project. This time, we focussed on the networks of performers, venues and festivals that made up the 'scene' in Britain during the 1970s. Shirely and Roland were also kind enough to let us look through their archive of documents, photographs and ephemera.</div>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-60523755101880909422010-12-06T15:30:00.001+00:002011-02-15T15:42:05.152+00:00Interview with Nigel Rolfe<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4tig4Krc2e3xKhQfZuWOl7XGu-fIk-yHYVeo5pJn-O3atLInVmARkeSeTCN8SDZF7mbkRQ-O0EIwMuvOzV2heOciDTkhJqlgoZ4iPasmg65sMAyqvW1_GVXZzRysjitGukjHkCWoOZCDi/s1600/P1010963.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4tig4Krc2e3xKhQfZuWOl7XGu-fIk-yHYVeo5pJn-O3atLInVmARkeSeTCN8SDZF7mbkRQ-O0EIwMuvOzV2heOciDTkhJqlgoZ4iPasmg65sMAyqvW1_GVXZzRysjitGukjHkCWoOZCDi/s320/P1010963.JPG" width="320" /></a>Nigel Rolfe is an artist based in Dublin, and a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art. He has been making performances and video art for over 30 years and in 1977 he was part of a group of international artists invited to take part in the Eisteddfod in Wrexham as part of the Welsh Art Council's programme <span lang="EN"><em>How the Past Perishes, How the Future Becomes/ Fel y darfuÕr gorffennol - fel y del y dyfodol</em>. Nigel created a piece called <em>Towers </em>that elicited a somewhat hostile reaction from some quarters of the press. He was later invited to re-perform the work at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff by the curator, David Briars. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span lang="EN">Heike met with Nigel to discuss his work and his memories of the Eisteddfod, and of the performance scene at this time. For more information about Nigel's work, click on the heading to this blog entry. Further information can be found on our website - <a href="http://www.performance-wales-org/">http://www.performance-wales-org/</a> </span>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-14003661562099330102010-11-27T15:02:00.000+00:002011-02-15T15:27:35.316+00:00Interview with Richard FrameRebecca met with Richard Frame this week; Richard was a contemporary of Dave Stephens at Cardiff College of Art and collaborated with him on several conceptual pieces during his Foundation Year. He was also a member of the 'Myself and Others' group run by John Gingell and Di Setch. <br />
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Richard later went to study at Newport College of Art where he continued to use performance and conceptual ideas within his work - with some of his fellow students, he formed a group called The Gay Dogs, notable because none of them could play their instruments or sing - this was in 1973. He also performed as part of the Portsmouth Sinfonia in Newport and at the Royal Albert Hall in London.It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-77462791138608875682010-11-25T14:41:00.012+00:002011-02-15T14:53:24.495+00:00Interview with Keith Wood<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMKoonI0iCvfKyE9fWaadlAYXUFPh0yO0sr_phPJmVfHoyqMu_j-p05kp0WVEJxwsDIZ_re04ikTDm9MGBsElZpn-QJY3wy6Vbc24rHJSfTOyWc1FqOflDteaSoSAKiNYix9j_0cN8qHB/s1600/P1010943.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMKoonI0iCvfKyE9fWaadlAYXUFPh0yO0sr_phPJmVfHoyqMu_j-p05kp0WVEJxwsDIZ_re04ikTDm9MGBsElZpn-QJY3wy6Vbc24rHJSfTOyWc1FqOflDteaSoSAKiNYix9j_0cN8qHB/s320/P1010943.JPG" width="240" /></a>Keith Wood came to Cardiff College of Art in 1966, and began making performances as a student. Some of these were solo affairs, such as an explosion in the car park during one early experimentation, while others were done in collaboration with other students, including John Danvers. In a number of the interviews, Keith has been named as being very influential on his fellow students and others that he worked with later on.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>After leaving college, Keith continued his interest performance, firstly with his own group, the Keith Wood Group, and later with Highway Shoes - Chapter's company in residence - before leaving for the USA, a regular theme in his later work. For more information on these, please see the database on our website, <a href="http://www.performance-wales.org/">http://www.performance-wales.org/</a><br />
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Rebecca and Heike met with Keith to talk about his early interest in performance and its development, along with some of his productions, including <em>The Nighthawk</em> which starred Mike Pearson, and <em>The Gospel According To Lenny</em>, about Lenny Bruce. It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-87921673950695507822010-11-15T14:31:00.001+00:002011-02-15T14:41:35.634+00:00Interview with Dek Leverton<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimm6-Tq__HkdVUbGUrRzVJpI8owUinhjgsFBHzDTM80URmft-jRRjQKFmctP110MBeKWFZ7iNhO69jtSHXpnnlkgZQTyPfSSjADsCBza1Sj7DlE_iHkgYULKGK6icJ0TYVIRgM-a0_XJsu/s1600/101115+Dek+Leverton.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimm6-Tq__HkdVUbGUrRzVJpI8owUinhjgsFBHzDTM80URmft-jRRjQKFmctP110MBeKWFZ7iNhO69jtSHXpnnlkgZQTyPfSSjADsCBza1Sj7DlE_iHkgYULKGK6icJ0TYVIRgM-a0_XJsu/s320/101115+Dek+Leverton.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Rebecca met with Dek Leverton this week, a former member of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, and a founder of Pauper's Carnival. Pauper's Carnival was formed in Cardiff in the mid-1970s, with a core membership of Dek and former drama teacher Vanya Constant. <br />
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They produced new, unique performances at Chapter and also at a number of other sites and performance spaces in Wales, and have been mentioned by a number of our contributors as being memorable and beautifully crafted. <br />
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Dek is pictured (right) holding a photo of <em>Clown Dances, </em>from 1977. Pauper's Carnival collaborated with other groups, including Moving Being, Pip Simmons and Brith Gof.It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-50444623319425620802010-10-25T14:47:00.001+01:002011-02-15T15:58:13.417+00:00Interview with Roger Ely<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFJbuAghyphenhyphen9Xdt4IWVOdVMRqQ4bwbN2EpE-uci-nNmnF0McMHfbxHEAZbTXaHO9iWjaI5G5YYYO1tqfvvBBLXEJyMBxZNOOVFDqhnuY9kPDYl63i2i8cBTc87qbt8Uf9Pikb3cvSIgTsdr/s1600/PS+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFJbuAghyphenhyphen9Xdt4IWVOdVMRqQ4bwbN2EpE-uci-nNmnF0McMHfbxHEAZbTXaHO9iWjaI5G5YYYO1tqfvvBBLXEJyMBxZNOOVFDqhnuY9kPDYl63i2i8cBTc87qbt8Uf9Pikb3cvSIgTsdr/s320/PS+Cover.jpg" width="229" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">We met with Roger Ely this week at his home in London. Roger studied at Leeds College of Art and was a contemporary of Dave Stephens. His tutors included John Darling and Jeff Nuttall, and Roger went on to become a key figure in the performance art scene as a writer, artist and <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">programmer. </span> </span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1977, along with Neil Butler, Roger put on the first Brighton Festival of Contemporary Arts, featuring the likes of Shirley Cameron, Roland Miller, Throbbing Gristle, IOU and many, many others. Then, in 1979 he was one of the founders of <em>Primary Source</em> magazine which sadly ended after 8 issues but is still a great read if you have the opportunity. Roger has also toured as an artist, including with Dave Stephens and Ian Hinchliffe as Matchbox Purveyors.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: inherit;">We hope to meet with Roger again before the end of the project, but would like to thank him for meeting with us and contributing to our research.</span>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-70392913143514415972010-10-17T14:46:00.015+01:002011-02-15T16:00:17.636+00:00Conversation with Janek Alexander<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpHEcI6eFDbxmWIKjChrTsPasJQXXmi4dHZ4nhg2oxEOPIhduUCLJn0kNtvx3HjN5SxMzTsy6iy7Hyoa-ypSyhiH8eN8DKWB-jsg8qOlGr542HDMs-1KwW03AXgoMr8NmN-3aulZT3gGy/s1600/20742.30883.eventimage.eng.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpHEcI6eFDbxmWIKjChrTsPasJQXXmi4dHZ4nhg2oxEOPIhduUCLJn0kNtvx3HjN5SxMzTsy6iy7Hyoa-ypSyhiH8eN8DKWB-jsg8qOlGr542HDMs-1KwW03AXgoMr8NmN-3aulZT3gGy/s200/20742.30883.eventimage.eng.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Heike was invited to chair a public conversation today with Janek Alexander, director of Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, about his performance work in the 1970s and 1980s. Janek was part of an extraordinarily vibrant and diverse performance scene, which included Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, Pauper's Carnival and Moving Being, all resident at Chapter in the 1970s. <br />
Janek made an extraordinary debut in 1976 with <i>Howard Hughe</i>s, a performance described by Mike Pearson as ‘a tour de force’. He went on to create ten more substantial pieces of work in a quest to develop a new form of minimalist "anti-theatre". Previously unseen video footage, rare audio recordings and contributions from former collaborators (Karen McGregor, Karen Lucas, Dave Perry and Paul Turner) and Alexander himself explored this unique body of work and the first decade of experimentation at Chapter.<br />
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More information: <a href="http://www.chapter.org/20742.html">http://www.chapter.org/20742.html</a>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-88194795392827109032010-10-14T11:43:00.013+01:002010-10-28T12:04:25.395+01:00Interview with Marty St James <br />
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We interviewed Marty St James, Professor of Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire and former student of Cardiff College of Art at his London studio this week. Marty has been making performance work since his late teens, working with Ian Hinchliffe, Rob Con, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron amongst many others. <br />
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At Cardiff, he made a number of pieces for the symposium that John Gingell ran in the Reardon Smith auditorium, and made an appearance on the HTV show 'Mr and Mrs' as part of his final year show. After graduating, he continued to produce conceptual and performance pieces around Wales, including his 'Morris 1000 Dancing' which visited a number of towns and villages, and 'I'll See You' which he presented at several art centres. <br />
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We would like to thank Marty for allowing us to interview him, and also for his help in identifying some of the images of his work that we have found in different archives.It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-46538531033401836972010-10-11T12:15:00.000+01:002010-10-11T12:15:30.849+01:00Sited interview: Mike Pearson at ChapterYesterday we travelled to Cardiff to interview Mike Pearson around the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. This followed on from the series of sited interviews we did with Mike around Cardiff last November that included various spaces within Cardiff University, Llanover Hall and the Sherman Theatre. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Mike has been involved with Chapter since its inception 40 years ago, and was one of the first people to move into the building and produce work, firstly with Transitions, later with Cardiff Lab. He also witnessed many performances by a number of artists and groups including Nigel Rolfe, Pip Simmons and Moving Being.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Thanks to Mike for his recollections and taking us on a tour of the building as he knew it, and to James Tyson and his colleagues at Chapter for making this possible.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For a full list visit: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.performance-wales.org/english/events/lectures.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.performance-wales.org/english/events/lectures.htm</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION AND CHAIR (Heike)</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">: "</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Living Archives - Session with Rose English and Anne Bean</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Performing Idea</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> symposium, part of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Performance Matters, </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goldsmiths University of London, Roehampton University and Live Art Development Agency, funded by an AHRC Research Grant, Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Studios, 6 October 2010. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk/symposium.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Details</span></a></span></span><br />
<hr noshade="" /><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (Heike)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">: "</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Performance art (in) history: disconnecting traditions, connecting histories"</span></span></i></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"TAPRA: History and Historiography Working Group</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">", TaPRA THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION conference, Glamorgan University, Cardiff 9–11 September 2010. </span></span><a href="http://www.tapra.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Details</span></span></a></span><br />
<hr noshade="" /><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">PRESENTATION (Heike and Rebecca)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">: </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What's Welsh for Performance?- Creating a record of performance art in Wales</span></span></i></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Documentation and the Cultural Record" </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">session at</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Culture Colony</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Y Wladfa Newydd</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> launch day, 7 September 2010, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. More </span></span><a href="http://www.culturecolony.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">information and documentation</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">; </span></span><a href="http://emmageliot.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/the-culture-colonists/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">response</span></span></a></span><br />
<hr noshade="" /><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (Heike)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">: "</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Teaching the Avant-garde - (Mis)Performing Pedagogies"</span></span></i></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"MISperformance -an inverted approach to doing Performance Studies (international?)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> - </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">PSi15 follow-up event</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" conference, Rijeka, Croatia 3–5 September 2010.</span></span></span><br />
<hr noshade="" /><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">PRESENTATION (Heike and Rebecca)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">:"</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'Welsh Not': Performing Wales in 1970s Performance Art"</span></span></i></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Theorizing Wales: Gender, Culture, Politic</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">s" conference, Swansea University, Gregynog 12–14 July 2010. </span></span><a href="http://www.swansea.ac.uk/CREW/Conferences"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Details</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<hr noshade="" /><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (Heike)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Performing An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales</span></span></i></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"[Record] [Create] Oral History in Art, Craft and Design (Oral History Society Annual Conference 2010)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" conference,Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2+3 July 2010. </span></span><a href="http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/conferences/2010.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Details</span></span></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="50" src="http://www.performance-wales.org/delweddau/Logos-other/Oral_history_society70.jpg" width="56" /> </span></span><span style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.....</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img height="50" src="http://www.performance-wales.org/delweddau/Logos-other/valogo.jpg" /></span></span>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-76493367320538756122010-10-04T10:02:00.002+01:002011-02-15T15:58:47.092+00:00Interview with Dave Stephens<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFiIJL-K8WxoQ_pe7l_kYi0U_imD7j9NuKNVdvKIgk9RJZIzPYdcPGXeeUI1tcMXFXpXT_v68w4WuLab355xYIRLYcpR3ad0MTZgjaINarQYoXASVJyuoo1F6QFNHpKmXeCcbVxZRnYNb/s1600/101004+Dave+Stephens+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFiIJL-K8WxoQ_pe7l_kYi0U_imD7j9NuKNVdvKIgk9RJZIzPYdcPGXeeUI1tcMXFXpXT_v68w4WuLab355xYIRLYcpR3ad0MTZgjaINarQYoXASVJyuoo1F6QFNHpKmXeCcbVxZRnYNb/s320/101004+Dave+Stephens+001.JPG" width="184" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We travelled down to Brighton this week to meet with Dave Stephens at his home. Dave is originally from Cardiff, and studied for his Art Foundation at Cardiff College of Art before moving to Leeds College of Art for his degree.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">At art college Dave began performing monologues on different subjects; sometimes confessional, sometimes provocative, he went on to tour the UK, Europe and North America. His final show was at the Central School of Art in 1985 and he has not performed since.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We would like to thank Dave for his generosity and hospitality, and for talking to us about his performance career. Also, we'd like to thank Matt Page for filming the interview for us.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-39435461256232504422010-09-10T15:13:00.001+01:002010-09-16T15:35:09.897+01:00Swansea Fringe Festival and Newport College of ArtThis week, Rebecca met with Robin Hall and David Hurn. <br />
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Robin came to Swansea to work with the Open Cast Theatre, and later worked for the Swansea Fringe Festival for several years during the 1980s. The festival brought many performers to the city, including the then-unknown comedians Paul Merton and Arthur Smith. He worked closely with the performance artist Rob Con who was also the festival administrator in its first year.<br />
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David is a member of Magnum, the photographers cooperative, and founded the photography course at Newport College of Art nearly forty years ago. He was also a colleague of the artist Keith Arnatt and taught Arnatt photography, and later curated an exhibition of Arnatt's work called 'I'm A Real Photographer'.<br />
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We would like to thank David and Robin for their time and contributing to our research.It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-5869974473951876702010-08-11T12:32:00.001+01:002011-02-15T15:55:46.106+00:00Project featured on The Wire websiteThe project has been included by Rhodri Davies on his Wire magazine portal link (click the title to this blog entry and if should take you straight there).<br />
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Rhodri is featured in the 'Invisible Jukebox' section of the new edition of the magazine, and an MP3 of his installation <em>room harp</em> at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle is available here: <a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4675/">http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4675/</a>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-89146883217472570192010-08-03T12:32:00.028+01:002010-08-11T12:44:38.954+01:00Research trip to London and interview with Mo Tingey<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We spent much of the last week in London, visiting the archives at the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and listening to a number of oral history interviews held at the National Sound Archive at the British Library.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nq1rK2O5EPmvhxjgUCbXSmxOk0esAlltvC68Vjw59WTJddG9Xag8wgGpXXBhrepBBsltvYX-PQF6FEOyTvVteYiL2Bo_ZyNahaXBzR96yFeWsHm4jTItWqVDKnA_bQ6x9JUXFB1NN4ls/s1600/P1010577.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nq1rK2O5EPmvhxjgUCbXSmxOk0esAlltvC68Vjw59WTJddG9Xag8wgGpXXBhrepBBsltvYX-PQF6FEOyTvVteYiL2Bo_ZyNahaXBzR96yFeWsHm4jTItWqVDKnA_bQ6x9JUXFB1NN4ls/s320/P1010577.JPG" /></a>We also interviewed Mo Tingey for the project. Mo was one of the people who staged the Fluxus events at the Aberystwyth Arts Festival in 1968, along with Brian Lane - she was then known as Maurene Sandoe. Mo brought along to the interview some beautiful leaflets and boxes that she had made back in the 1960s, containing paper dolls, small boxes that made sounds, sound scores and stage directions. These were made in small numbers and sold to people, part of the idea about making art accessible and available to everyone.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We'd like to thank Mo for meeting with us and contributing to the project.</div>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-69656821948203588192010-07-09T13:37:00.009+01:002010-07-12T13:52:08.577+01:00Group Interview 3 - Former Cardiff College of Art students<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkQuRjj8DbW_CQl2uGdZynVD6T54EUw3YwuF0gWDPn4NwDNVCQvas7lGiWLwm1poQNkWvu2J9WVtSAD1DaXstP6FMwAF-FGbRMi3D-MK4RadwCb_Z-2l3Dp5T9bTVDkMNXXPD1JSpu6Tv/s1600/P7090453.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkQuRjj8DbW_CQl2uGdZynVD6T54EUw3YwuF0gWDPn4NwDNVCQvas7lGiWLwm1poQNkWvu2J9WVtSAD1DaXstP6FMwAF-FGbRMi3D-MK4RadwCb_Z-2l3Dp5T9bTVDkMNXXPD1JSpu6Tv/s400/P7090453.JPG" width="400" /></a>This week we met with four former students from Cardiff College of Art, as Cardiff School of Art & Design was then known. We were fortunate to be allowed to hold the interview at UWIC's Howard Gardens campus, where they had studied during the late 1960s and 1970s with (amongst others) Tom Hudson and John Gingell. A tour of the building prompted lots of memories from their student days. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>We would like to thank Prof André Stitt, Debbie Savage and Nicola Brown for their help in arranging for us to use Howard Gardens. We'd also like to thank our interviewees, Colin Ainsworth, Tim Diggles, Suzy Peters and Mike Shaw, for travelling to Cardiff, lending us material from their personal archives, and for their memories and stories.It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-15217371951681616022010-07-01T09:01:00.001+01:002011-02-15T15:56:35.316+00:00Interview with Sally Roberts Jones<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wWWr0Rb7_1F0qMNpt0TCWptxf5CEjfIBZHLjCMtPcRwrrauPTldsF8hTTjRdBtIeWvohdUJmmh_dLGYKlr5YfjEJgvBjSPVElJ2r4OJlI43hE-PNEoeRlz3pt4gnTsaboYY1Kvca56jO/s1600/HudsonBHTHPS00117.7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wWWr0Rb7_1F0qMNpt0TCWptxf5CEjfIBZHLjCMtPcRwrrauPTldsF8hTTjRdBtIeWvohdUJmmh_dLGYKlr5YfjEJgvBjSPVElJ2r4OJlI43hE-PNEoeRlz3pt4gnTsaboYY1Kvca56jO/s200/HudsonBHTHPS00117.7.jpg" width="150" /></a>Rebecca interviewed Sally Roberts Jones this week, about her memories of the Commonwealth Poetry Conference, which took place in Cardiff in 1965 as part of the Commonwealth Festival. Poets and writers that attended the conference included Clive James and Les Murray of Australia, Alexander Trocchi, Brian Patten, Adrian Henri and George Macbeth. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>The Conference included a happening organised by Tom Hudson at Jackson Hall in Cardiff called 'Assembly Line' - this was possibly the first happening to take place in Wales, and among to participants was the American musician and composer Philip Corner. We would love to hear from anyone who remembers the poetry conference or took part in 'Assembly Line' - email <a href="mailto:mail@performance-wales.org">mail@performance-wales.org</a> <br />
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Rebecca and Heike would like to thank Sally Roberts Jones for her sharing her time and memories with us.It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-33765566601512078402010-06-23T15:19:00.029+01:002010-07-05T15:34:42.759+01:00Interview with David Briers<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvywvRqpr6jyHeTZyg0_9mRD7eoxJmGAu2d_iKwAxv8Rvi1zUSk8N39MMDMlUhMXN4s2Nmhs64IVbTEGwC-D2YmZuJ7PJNRBvvDd5wg5iyIiNE_fw4fRmYFGKl_CDaAO8yaEAkb7uvQbYm/s1600/Briers+22_0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvywvRqpr6jyHeTZyg0_9mRD7eoxJmGAu2d_iKwAxv8Rvi1zUSk8N39MMDMlUhMXN4s2Nmhs64IVbTEGwC-D2YmZuJ7PJNRBvvDd5wg5iyIiNE_fw4fRmYFGKl_CDaAO8yaEAkb7uvQbYm/s200/Briers+22_0002.jpg" width="200" /></a>David Briers was the Visual Arts Organiser at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff between 1976 and 1984, responsible for programming the galleries. Rebecca went to interview David this week his interest in performance art, and his time at Chapter. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YB-8_ksq3E7wkYEiA0YKdInpNcYuwqldM3d9CSl8KwaIo1xxY_f3WMZuxGVL-zmF7yKf5LnLjRojqNYIAUiIpxr_iHe4JL-y4pt27eftgfM51csHc8te-ypIRfYhh3IE_Apxphl4Ee9c/s1600/Briers+20_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" rw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YB-8_ksq3E7wkYEiA0YKdInpNcYuwqldM3d9CSl8KwaIo1xxY_f3WMZuxGVL-zmF7yKf5LnLjRojqNYIAUiIpxr_iHe4JL-y4pt27eftgfM51csHc8te-ypIRfYhh3IE_Apxphl4Ee9c/s200/Briers+20_0001.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">David invited Nigel Rolfe to do a performance of the 'Towers' piece, and also one called 'Treatment of Individual Parts' (see above and right - copyright Steve Benbow). </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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Heike will be presenting the project at the ICA's Live Weekends this weekend, together with artist Ivor Davies. <br />
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'What's Welsh for Performance?' Archiving the history of performance art in Wales 1965-2010 - featuring Ivor Davies in conversation with Heike Roms on Destruction in Art London / Edinburgh / Durham / Bristol / Swansea 1966-1969<br />
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22 May 2010 - 2.20-4.45pm, Lower Gallery, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall - LondonSW1Y 5AH<br />
Admission Free<br />
As part of ICA's LIVE WEEKENDS: Futures and Pasts - curated by Tim Etchells<br />
More information on the event here:<br />
<a href="http://www.ica.org.uk/24606/Talks/Live-Weekends-Futures-and-Pasts.html">http://www.ica.org.uk/24606/Talks/Live-Weekends-Futures-and-Pasts.html</a>It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6489972461071021057.post-52952941382716904782010-05-06T15:39:00.013+01:002010-07-05T15:51:34.774+01:00Interview with Isabel HitchmanRebecca interviewed Isabel Hitchman today - Isabel worked at the Arts Council of Wales during the 1970s and was involved in the founding of the Oriel Gallery. Along with holding regular exhibitions, Oriel was also a book shop and, on occasion, provided a space for performance. This photo shows a performance by former Cardiff School of Art and Design students Marty St James and Anne Wilson, called 'Perfect Moments'. <br />
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We would like to thank Isabel for her hospitality and her time, and for helping with our research. <br />
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</div>The photo below is of a group of students listening to Tom Hudson speak at the Summer School around 1965 (click on the photo to enlarge it); if you can identify any of the people in the picture, or you attended any of the art or music courses during the 1960s and early 1970s - please email us at mail@performance-wales.org <br />
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"<em>Performing an Oral History of Performance Art in Wales</em>" - "[Record] [Create] Oral History in Art, Craft and Design (Oral History Society Annual Conference 2010"<br />
Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2+3 July 2010It was forty years ago todayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17026770289698767867noreply@blogger.com