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Artist(s)

Anthony Howell and others

Collaborator(s)

Country of Residence

Wales

Title

Weekly show at the Space Workshop

Date

1986 cont.

Extent

Site

Cardiff: Cardiff School of Art, Space Workshop

Event

Sponsor

Type

Performance

Keywords

education

Traces

Notes

Other important performance events in Wales this year

Glenn Davidson and Anne Hayes Live Support System Studio Performance (Cardiff) and Live Locomotion (various); Ian Hinchliffe Get Fresh (Cardiff

1980 : 1981 :1982 : 1983 : 1984 : 1985 : 1986 : 1987 : 1988 : 1989

Weekly ‘show’ at the Space Workshop, Cardiff School of Art

 

The Space Workshop itself is an inspiring place - sixty foot by sixty foot, with a sound/ projection booth, a good lighting grid, girders, and a large white wall. Curtains make it configurable in a great variety of ways. As soon as I took up my post, I established a weekly “show” where any student, in any year, in any are of the fine art course, could present work before an audience of fellow students and tutors - and that audience might comprise painters, sculptors, even members of the public. [...]

[Anthony Howell, ‘A concept for performance art’, in The Infernal Triangle, booklet accompanying the performances at the ICA, 21-24 October and 28-31 October, 1998, p.12-13]

 

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