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'Heike Roms at What's Welsh for Performance? has done a wonderful job of digging up an avant-garde we never previously knew existed.' (Anthony Brockway in New Welsh Review 81 (2008))

What's Welsh for Performance? -

40 years of Performance Art in Wales

Project Director:
Dr Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University
Performance Studies, Dept Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK

Funded by:
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC)
- The ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
- SIR DAVID HUGHES PARRY AWARDS 2006+2008
- University RESEARCH FUND, Aberystwyth

With support from:
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University; SHIFTwork Time Based Art Research Group, Cardiff School of Art and Design University of Wales Institute, Cardiff Athrofa Prifysgol Cymru, Caerdydd and / a Chapter

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NEWS: AHRC Research Grant Award

Dr Heike Roms was recently awarded a large research grant (worth £165,779) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The grant will support a two-year research project, entitled “'It was forty years ago today…': Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965-1979”. The project will examine how performance art histories are constructed, paying particular attention to the development of the art form in the context of Wales. Start date was 1 April 2009.

For more information see here or the AHRC website.

EVENT: Aberystwyth in Flux 1968-2008

... restaging the Fluxconcert by and for Fluxus organised by Brian Lane, Rainbow Day and the First Dream Machine on 28 November 1968, Parish Hall, Aberystwyth.

29 November 2008, 8pm, Castle Theatre (the former Parish Hall), Aberystwyth

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Full documentation will be available soon. Photos: Daniel Ladnar. Poster design: Kasia Coleman.

:.EVENT INFORMATION

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

For information on Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968 and to contribute eyewitness accounts click here.

With support from the SIR DAVID HUGHES PARRY AWARDS 2008.

ARCHIVE: more information

DATABASE of Performance art in Wales 1965-2007 now available!

Fully searchable database of nearly 2000 records of performance art events in Wales.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: more information

What's Welsh for Performance? An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales (vol.1)

Interviews with Ivor Davies, Shirley Cameron & Roland Miller, T.E.Jones, J.C.Jones & A.Knight, and Anthony Howell

For more than forty years artists have been creating performances, happenings and other time-based art in Wales, yet their work remains largely confined to half-remembered anecdotes, rumours and hearsay. What's Welsh for Performance? tries to uncover Wales's hidden history of performance in conversations with key artists who have shaped this history since 1968. Their memories, accompanied by extensive documentation, paint a vivid picture of the vibrancy and importance of performance art in Wales and elsewhere.

Trace Samizdat Press, 2008 ISBN 0955392721 RRP £10 - available through amazon and other retailers.

new welsh review cover image Eventful Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art

Maska (Issue: History – Experience – Archive) 117–118 (Autumn 2008), pp. 69-77.

Information.

new welsh review cover image What's Welsh for Performance?: Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales

Cyfrwng (Media Wales Journal) 5 (2008), pp. 54-72.

A research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of Performance Art in Wales

Prosiect ymchwil i ddadorchuddio ac archifo hanes Celf Perfformio yng Nghymru