What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'performance' yn Gymraeg?

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This website incorporates the website for '"It was forty years ago today" - Locating the early history of performance art in Wales, 1965–1979', a research project funded by a large Research Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC (2009–2011). For more information on the project click here.

Quick links - highlights:

- an online searchable database with details of nearly 650 performance events made in Wales between 1963 and 1979

- over 40 oral history interviews with artists, administrators and audience members

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latest update: 14 April 2013 [more]

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Research Seminar: ‘What is the Art School for?’, University of Wales Newport, 22 May 2013 [UK]

Conference Paper: 'Now, Then: Accounting for the Future Histories of Performance Art', 19th Performance Studies international conference: Now, Then, Stanford University, 26 - 30 June 2013 [USA]

Roundtable Contribution: ''Archiving Legacies: Who Cares for Performance Remains?', Roundtable to launch Performing Archives / Archives of Performance, PSi books /Museum Tusculanum Press, 19th Performance Studies international conference: Now, Then, Stanford University, 26 - 30 June 2013 [USA]

click here for a list of recent talks and presentations on the project

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"The lunatics are on the loose …" EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977
publication in English on the occasion of the exhibition "The lunatics are on the loose …" EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977

The publication contains material on the Aberystwyth Fluxusconcert of 1968 - more on the 68 event here.

Extensive documentation of 32 selected European Fluxus events in Aachen, Aberystwyth, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid, Nizza, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Poznan, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Stockholm, Vilnius, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal

Contributions by Jennifer Burkard, Myriam Kroll, Peter van der Meijden, Susanne Rennert, Henar Rivière Ríos, Heike Roms, Vanja Sisek, Petra Stegmann, Caroline Ugelstad
artistic contributions by Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Larry Miller, Ann Noël, Ben Patterson, Tamas St.Turba
Ed. by Petra Stegmann, DOWN WITH ART!, Potsdam

592 pages, handbound, numerous photographs,
42 € (including 7% VAT)
The book can be ordered through ego@inarcadia.de

In connection with the exhibition project The lunatics are on the loose …" EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977

For more information on the exhibition click here or visit the exhibition's website or Facebook page.

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Heike Roms was awarded a Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). We were pleased to appoint Kerrie Reading to the studentship - Kerrie started her project on the 1 October.

The project has the overall title “How to Build an Arts Centre? Historical perspectives on engaging local audiences with innovative performance practice: Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre in the 1970s” and is a collaboration between Aberystwyth University and Chapter Arts Centre. Kerrie will be working under the supervision of Dr Heike Roms and Professor Mike Pearson (Aberystwyth University) and Janek Alexander (for Chapter).

For more information on the award click here.

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Heike Roms won the inaugural David Bradby TaPRA Award for Research in International Theatre and Performance 2011, awarded for outstanding research in any area of Theatre and Performance Studies. The award was presented at the TaPRA 2011 Conference at the University of Kingston on 7 September, 2011.

For more information on TaPRA and the award click here - for information on the work of David Bradby click here.

Following the award, Heike gave the keynote address at last year's TaPRA conference - 8th Annual TaPRA Conference held at The University of Kent at Canterbury September 5-7, 2012.

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Heike Roms and Rebecca Edwards (2011) ‘Oral History as Site-Specific Practice: Locating the History of Performance Art in Wales’, Shelley Trower, Place, Writing and Voice in Oral History (Studies in Oral History), Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171–191. (ISBN 9780230623699). To buy a copy: click here

Heike Roms and Rebecca Edwards (2012) ‘Towards a (Pre-) history of Live Art in the UK’, Contemporary Theatre Review 22-1 (Special Issue: Live Art in the UK; issue editor: Dominic Johnson), 17-31. ISSN 1048-6801 (Print), 1477-2264 (Online). To buy a copy: click here

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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.

Proceeds from the sales of this publication go toward the What's Welsh for Performance? / Beth yw 'Performance' yn Gymraeg? Commission Fund - for details click here.

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