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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.
Project Director Cyfarwyddwr Prosiect:
Heike Roms Contact:
Dr Heike Roms Funded by Wedi ei drawsgronni gan:
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What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'performance' yn Gymraeg?:welcome :croeso:info :gwybodaethThis 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - latest update: 26 February 2012 [lectures] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :events :digwyddiadau [more] Heike Roms, Performance (in) History – Archives, Memories and Re-enactments, Research Seminar, University of Reading, 8 March 2012 - 4pm. Heike Roms, In den Ruinen der Universität: Kunstpraxis als Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungsform [In the Ruins of the University: Artistic Practice and the Publics of Research], Keynote, Graduiertenkolleg Versammlung & Teilhabe - Urbane öffentlichkeiten und Performative Künste, HafenCity Universität Hamburg, 20-22 April 2012. Heike Roms, The Avant-Garde in the Classroom: Learning and Teaching (as) Performance Art in Britain in the early 1970s, Conference Presentation, PSi18 Performance Studies International Conference, University of Leeds 27 June - 1 July 2012. click here for a list of recent talks and presentations on the project - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :commissions :comisiynau Between November 2011 and February 2012 What's Welsh for Performance? is supporting Pitch at Radio Cardiff. Pitch is a weekly arts and culture programme broadcast on Tuesday mornings from 10am - 11am on Radio Cardiff 98.7FM and available to those outside Cardiff as a live webcast on http://www.radiocardiff.org. Pitch is produced and presented by Richard Huw Morgan and John Rowley / 'good cop bad cop'. For more information click here. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :award :gwobr 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. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :publications :cyhoeddiadau [more]
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)
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If you have any information on performance in Wales that could be of use to the project, please get in touch!
