what's welsh for performance? - An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales

Season 1 (October 2006- March 2007)

A two-year series of events devoted to key artists who have shaped the development of performance art in Wales since 1968.

A PUBLICATION accompanying the series will be launched in January 2008. For further information click here or to pre-order a copy contact mail@performance-wales.org

To view VIDEO extracts from the conversations please click on the artists' names below.

Ivor Davies

in conversation about his performance work in the 1960s, the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966 and his involvement with the Beca group

Photo: Phil Babot

Edited transcript of the conversation published in: Platfform tri/3 (August 2007), pp. 13-17.

Shirley Cameron & Roland Miller

in conversation about performance at the legendary Barry Summer School and their joint performance work in Wales in the 1970s

Photo: Tim Freeman

Timothy Emlyn Jones, John Chris Jones and Andrew Knight

in conversation about the international performance programme at the National Eisteddfod 1977

Photo: Phil Babot

Edited transcript of the conversation published in: new welsh review Issue 76, Summer 2007

Anthony Howell

in conversation about his work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1990s and his involvement in Grey Suit and Cardiff Art in Time

Photo: Tim Freeman