What's Welsh for Performance? - Performative Archiving

Event 1: Mapping Performance Art in Wales

... creating an interactive map of Welsh performance art history...

As part of Experimentica 08 - October 2008, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff.

Details to follow soon.

Event 2: 40 years of Fluxus in Wales - A restaging

... restaging the Fluxconcert by and for Fluxus organised by Brian Lane, Rainbow Day and the Dream Machine 27-29 November 1968, Parish Hall, Aberystwyth.

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

Details to follow soon.

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

For information on Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968 click here.

Event 3: The day Yoko Ono did not come to Wales...

Ongoing video project.

Details to follow soon.

Event 4: "It was forty years ago today ..."

Ongoing digital project.

Details to follow soon

Event 5: Trace Dis:placed

A project by the Trace collective (André Stitt, Phil Babot, Lee Hassall, Beth Greenhalgh) and Heike Roms. Guest: Roddy Hunter.

Presented at National Review of Live Art
06/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
07/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
08/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00
09/02/2008 16:00 - 19:00

A scale replica of the ‘domestic’ TRACE install-action artspace in Cardiff was built into the Tramway in Glasgow. Over 4 days the artists engaged in an ongoing dialogue with the installation, navigating its physicality and making interventions upon its structure.

The public had full access throughout to experience the ‘live’ activity and the resulting installation/evidence and residual traces. A live archive was created during the daily performances by Heike Roms. The seemingly left-over or discarded matter from performance actions was offered up for contemplation and reflection; a living archive centred on process, events and experiences, ‘traces’ that embody that fragile quality where the object itself is imbued with the performance that created it.

More information: National Review of Live Art - tracegallery

[review]

LECTURES: more information

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 'Un-wording: Performing Writing, Archiving Performing'

Archive Fervour / Archive Further: Literature, Archives, and Literary Archives conference, Aberystwyth University 9-11 July 2008 [more information here]