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Heike Roms and John Cale 2009, Photo: P. Finnemore.

Heike Roms - Frankfurt 2007
Heike Roms in Frankfurt 2007

Heike Roms at EPAF 2007
Heike Roms at EPAF Warsaw 2007

heike roms in new york city
Heike Roms in New York 2006

heike roms in Quebec
Symposium at Le Lieu, Quebec - Heike Roms, André Stitt, Guy Soui Durand

FUTURE PRESENTATIONS:

* Conference Presentation: "Performing An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales", at the "[Record] [Create] Oral History in Art, Craft and Design (Oral History Society Annual Conference 2010)" conference,Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2+3 July 2010.

* Conference Presentation: "'Welsh Not': Performing Wales in 1970s Performance Art", at the "Theorizing Wales: Gender, Culture, Politics" conference, Swansea University, Gregynog 12–14 July 2010. Details

* Conference Presentation: "Teaching the Avant-garde - (Mis)Performing Pedagogies", at the "MISperformance -an inverted approach to doing Performance Studies (international?) - PSi15 follow-up event" conference, Rijeka, Croatia 3–5 September 2010.

* Conference Presentation: "Performance art (in) history: disconnecting traditions, connecting histories", at the "TAPRA: History and Historiography Working Group" conference, Glamorgan University, Cardiff 9–11 September 2010. Details


PAST PRESENTATIONS:


PRESENTATION:"'What's Welsh for Performance?’ Archiving the history of performance art in Wales 1965-2010"

Featuring Ivor Davies in conversation with Heike Roms on Destruction in Art London / Edinburgh / Durham / Bristol / Swansea 1966-1969; As part of ICA's LIVE WEEKENDS: Futures and Pasts - curated by Tim Etchells; ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 22 May 2010. Details.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

Oral History/Theatre History: Past - Present - Future conference, Rose Bruford College London, 17 April 2010.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Enquiring into the properties of sculpture: Tom Hudson's performance pedagogy in the 1960s

Sculpture & Performance conference, Henry Moore Institute and Tate Liverpool, Leeds and Liverpool 24–26 March 2010. [more info]


ROUNDTABLE CONTRIBUTION: Remembering Performance through Oral History

Roundtable: 'Remembering Performance' - A panel discussion with contributions from Claire MacDonald, Fiona Wright, Richard Layzell and Heike Roms, chaired by Paul Clarke; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow 21 March 2010, 10-13 - The Arches. [more info]


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Eventful Evidence: Between Memory and the Archive

ARCHIV/PRAXIS Arbeitstagung Conference, Tanzarchiv und Universität Leipzig, 10-13 December 2009.


RESEARCH SEMINAR: Performance (in) History – Archives, Memories and Re-enactments

York St John University, 23 November 2009.


RESEARCH SEMINAR: Eventful Evidence: Performance Historiographies

Dept Dance, Film and Theatre, Surrey University, 20 November 2009.


CONFERENCE PAPER: Performing the History of Performance: Re-enacting 1960s performance art

The Past is Still to Change: Performing History from 1945 to the Present International Conference, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania), 21-23 October 2009.


PRESENTATION: Oral Histories of Performance

Digital Documentation and Performance, hosted by JISC Digital Media and the University of Bristol Drama Department - series of three one-day events on the topics of creating, managing and delivering digital documentation of performance work conference, Bristol, 23-25 September 2009. [more information]


PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

NOTES on a Return symposium (curator: Sophia Hao), Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 4-5 September 2009.


GUEST LECTURE: Performing the History of Performance: Re-enacting 1960s performance art

Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe -Universität Frankfurt 30 June 2009.


PRESENTATION: The Gift of the Archive

Contribution to Out of the Box and Dusted Down: Foraging and Findings: A collective event to welcome Honorary Departmental Fellow Barbara Cavanagh and introduce the International Theatre Collection as an active TFTS resource - Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies and the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth University, 12 May 2009.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: "What's Welsh for performance" archive

Panel: 'Archives as Media of Communication', Cyfrwng Conference 2009, hosted by BBC Wales, 7-8 May 2009. [more information]


DISCUSSION CHAIR: Cafe Artistique event with guest speaker Bruce Haines

Hosted by Showroom, Y Consti, Aberystwyth, 28 April 2009. [information and documentation]


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Constructions of presence through documentation in early performance art: Ian Breakwell's UNWORD

Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated. An international conference, Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter, UK, 26-29 March 2009. [conference website]


PRESENTATION: Restaging Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968-2008

'Repetition and Reconstruction' workshop as part of the AHRC-funded Rethinking Archives: History, Media and Memory workshop series, University of the West of England / Arnolfini, Arnolfini Bristol 4 March 2009. [project wiki] [project archive]


CONVERSATION: In Conversation with John Cale / Yng Nghwmni John Cale

John Cale, who will be representing Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009, in conversation with artist Iwan Bala and Dr. Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University; Miner's Theatre, Ammanford 26 February 2009.

John Cale, a ddewiswyd i gynrhychioli Cymru yn Biennale Celf Fenis, 2009, yn sgwrsio gyda'r artist Iwan Bala a Dr. Heike Roms, Prifysgol Aberystwyth; Theatr y Glowyr, Rhydaman, 26 Chwefror 2009.

Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009 / Cymru yn Biennale Celf Fenis 2009


CONVERSATION: What’s so magic about an archive?

Malcolm Taylor, Director of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, and Doc Rowe in conversation; Facilitator: Dr Heike Roms; as part of The Mary Neal Day, Cecil Sharp House London, 7 February 2009.


PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - Archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales

London Theatre Seminar panel on archives and archiving with Kate Dorney (Curator of Contemporary Theatre Collections, V&A), Bonnie Hewson (UCL) and Matthew Reason (University of York St John), London Senate House 8 January 2009. [more information here]


LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales [Kaj je valizanskega v performansu? Uprizarjanje "oralne zgodovine performansa v Walesu"]

Lecture at the East Dance Academy – On archiving, performing and displaying the history of contemporary dance and performance: Dogodek o zgodovinjenju, arhiviranju in rekonstruiranju sodobne scenske umetnosti, Maska / Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana 23-26 November 2008. [more information here]


PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - Uncovering and Archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales.

1st Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd conference Create, Communicate, Conserve, MOMA Wales, Y Tabernacl Machynlleth 7 November 2008. [more information here] [review]


OPEN LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Uncovering and Archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales

Theatre Academy Helsinki, 23 October 2008


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Performing Place, Writing, Voice - An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

Place, Writing and Voice conference, University of Plymouth 5-6 September 2008


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Eventful Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art

TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) History and Historiography Working Group - TaPRA conference, Leeds University 3-5 September 2008 [more information here]


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Remembering Performance – Performing Memory: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage - SIBMAS conference, Glasgow RSAMD 25-29 August 2008 [more information here]


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Eventful Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art

as part of a panel curated by Heike Roms on Archival Events and Eventful Archives: In-Between Performance and Document with Paul Clarke, University of Bristol: 'Ephemera: Performing the Archive'; Mike Pearson, Aberystwyth University: 'Theatre/Archaeology: visualising past performance'; Johannes Lothar Schröder, Hamburg: 'Schauwerk –BLACK BOX as a Platform for Activities'. Moderator: Dee Heddon, University of Glasgow

INTERREGNUM: In Between States – PSi # 14 conference, University of Copenhagen 20-24 August 2008 [more information here] [Johannes Lothar Schröder Schauwerk blog with a report from the conference in German]


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]


PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance?

Conserving and Archiving Ephemeral Artworks workshop, University of Bristol 25 June 2008 [more information here]


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Cyber/Stage - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales

New Platforms :: Convergence, CYFRWNG 2008 CONFERENCE, Aberystwyth University, National Library Of Wales, 1-2 May 2008 - [more information here]

Llwyfannau Newydd :: Cydgyfeiriant, CYNHADLEDD CYFRWNG 2008, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 1-2 Mai 2008 - [myw of wybodaeth]


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

Presentation to a group of international curators as part of a series of events accompanying Artes Mundi 3, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 22 April 2008.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Remembering Performance– An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

Oral History and Performance: OHMAR 2008 Spring Conference, Columbia University, New York; Saturday 15 March 2008, 9am- [more information here]


PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance?

National Review of Live Art (New Moves International), Glasgow - Tramway 2 - 07 February 2008 20:00 - 21:00; Tickets 0845 330 3501 http://www.tramway.org/

This talk introduces What’s Welsh for Performance? - Beth yw ‘performance’ yn Gymraeg?, a research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of performance art in Wales between 1968 and 2008. The talk will consider the current ‘archive fever’ in performance practice, scholarship and curatorship. It will then focus on the two main strands of the Welsh performance archive: an online searchable database (www.performance-wales.org) and a publicly staged Oral History series. [more information here]


INTERVIEW: On Performance Art in Wales

Thursday 24 January 2008 - 18:32 Radio Wales Arts Show
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents reports and analysis in a weekly review of Wales's thriving arts scene.
[more information here]


PRESENTATION: ... repeat it, repeat it, repeat it until something new enters the world’ – Performance, Archive and the Future

As part of the conference Prognoses on Movement(s) (Prognosen über Bewegung(en)), an interdisciplinary conference at the Berlin Free University’s Centre for Research on Movement, 1-2 December 2007.
[more information here]


LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales

at the 'Performing the Archive: Works Past to Present' Research Event at University of Bristol, Department of Drama

Launch of the three-year Great Western Research project, 'Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past', which is based in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection's Live Art Archives and Arnolfini Live's archives, partnered with Exeter University Department of Drama.

Theatre, University of Bristol Department of Drama, Cantock's Close, 1 November, 5.15-7pm

with Professor Mike Pearson, Performance Studies, Aberystwyth University, on 'The Brith Gof Archive Project'


LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales

Inaugural Lecture of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries Research Seminar Series 2007/8, ARTriuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, 17.10.07


PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

As part of the workshop on 'Staging, Exhibiting, Curating', at the European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 26 – 30 September 2007
[more information here]


LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Archiving Performance Art ("Walijskosc a performance? Archiwizujac sztuke performance")

At the European Performance Art Festival EPAF Warsaw 2007, 7 September 2007.

[more information here]


LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - A performance archive

At the symposium A Visual Arts Archive for Cardiff, Visual Arts Forum Cardiff, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff - 25 June 2007 organised by Simon Fenoulhet on behalf of VAF.

Other speakers: Simon Fenoulhet, Euryn Ogwen - Williams, Gary Malkin (Baltic).


PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

At Placing (Oral) History, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow - 18 June 2007

Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles is a project that seeks to expand the documentation and archiving of Live Art and Performance in the British Isles from the 1960s onwards by developing and establishing an extensive oral history project over the next 5 years. An AHRC-funded network collaboration between the Department of Drama, University of Bristol, the British Library Sound Archive, University of the Arts, London, and the University of Glasgow, this first year functions as an exploratory period during which members of the steering group are hosting a series of working days throughout the British Isles in order to draw upon the expertise and skills of a range of regionally placed scholars, artists, curators and archivists working in the fields of Live Art and Performance.

Sensitive to the politics of mapping and representing histories, we are keen to ensure that any oral history of performance and live art practice in the British Isles recognises local, national and cultural specificities, whether of practices, genealogies, debates or issues of access.

More information on the Sounding performance project available here


PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - A performance archive

At the First Symposium on Archive, Memory and Performance, hosted by the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth 25-27 May 2007

"Richard Gough, Judie Christie, Adrian Kear, Michal Kobialka, Mike Pearson, Heike Roms, Rebecca Schneider and Diana Taylor met at the first research and development meeting for a major project on Archive, Memory and Performance." (CPR)


PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for performance? Uncovering and archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales

At Aberystwyth School of Art, University of Wales Aberystwyth - 2 May 2007

The Lunchtime Lecture Series is open to the public and all students and staff of the School of Art. Throughout the semester internationally acknowledged artists have been invited to give a lecture on their practice and current, past and future projects.

[Adolygiad / Review - in Welsh]


PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

At Curatorial Practices - From Live Art to the Archive at Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol - 30 April 2007

Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles is a project that seeks to expand the documentation and archiving of Live Art and Performance in the British Isles from the 1960s onwards by developing and establishing an extensive oral history project over the next 5 years. A network collaboration between the Department of Drama, University of Bristol, the British Library Sound Archive, University of the Arts, London, and the University of Glasgow, this first year functions as an exploratory period during which members of the steering group are hosting a series of working days throughout the British Isles in order to draw upon the expertise and skills of a range of regionally placed scholars, artists, curators and archivists working in the fields of Live Art and Performance. The first of these days takes place at the University of Bristol with the kind support of the Institute of Advanced Studies, BIRTHA, and the AHRC.

More information on the Sounding performance project available here


PRESENTATION: Archiving Performance

At the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Staff and Student Research Conference, University of Wales Aberystwyth - Gregynog 23-25 March 2007


TRACE in New YorkPUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance?

At Franklin Furnace, New York, 8 April 2006 as part of: TRACE: in New York, Franklin Furnace, Brooklyn, New York 7th April - 7th June 2006, An exhibition of work from the TRACE archive [2000-2005]

[more information here] [review]

 


RHWNTPUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance?

At Le Lieu, Québec, 12 September 2004 as part of: RHWNT - Québec-Wales Exchange (Rencontre Internationale d'Art Performance de Québec 2004)

[more information here] [review]

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
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