What's Welsh for Performance? - Performative Archiving - Past Events

Event 1: Mapping Performance Art in Cardiff

... creating an interactive map of Cardiff's performance art history...

As part of Experimentica 08 - Sunday 19 October 2008: 2-10pm, Chapter Cardiff.

More details and photographs.

Event 2: 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

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