NEWS: AHRC Research Grant Award

In 2009 Dr Heike Roms was awarded a large research grant (worth £165,779) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The grant supports a two-year research project, entitled “'It was forty years ago today…': Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965-1979”. The project examines how performance art histories are constructed, paying particular attention to the development of the art form in the context of Wales. Start date was 1 April 2009.

For more information and regular updates visit our project blog.

FUTURE PRESENTATIONS: [full list of past presentations]

* Roundtable: 'Remembering Performance' - A panel discussion with Claire MacDonald, Geraldine Pilgrim, Richard Layzell and Heike Roms, chaired by Paul Clarke, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow 21 March 2010. [more info]

* Conference Paper: 'Enquiring into the properties of sculpture: Tom Hudson's performance pedagogy in the 1960s' at the "Sculpture & Performance” conference, Henry Moore Institute and Tate Liverpool, Leeds and Liverpool 24–26 March 2010.

* Conference Presentation: 'An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales', at the "Oral History/Theatre History: Past - Present - Future" conference, Rose Bruford College London, 17 April 2010.

EVENT: Aberystwyth in Flux 1968-2008

... restaging the Fluxconcert by and for Fluxus organised by Brian Lane, Rainbow Day and the First Dream Machine on 28 November 1968, Parish Hall, Aberystwyth.

29 November 2008, 8pm, Castle Theatre (the former Parish Hall), Aberystwyth

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Full documentation NOW AVAILABLE!

:.EVENT INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION

"...if you don't know what a Fluxconcert is you must come and see for yourself..." [Brian Lane, 1968]

With support from the SIR DAVID HUGHES PARRY AWARDS 2008.

ARCHIVE: more information

DATABASE of Performance art in Wales 1965-2007 online!

Fully searchable database of over 2000 records of performance art events in Wales.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: more information

What's Welsh for Performance? An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales (vol.1)

Interviews with Ivor Davies, Shirley Cameron & Roland Miller, T.E.Jones, J.C.Jones & A.Knight, and Anthony Howell

For more than forty years artists have been creating performances, happenings and other time-based art in Wales, yet their work remains largely confined to half-remembered anecdotes, rumours and hearsay. What's Welsh for Performance? tries to uncover Wales's hidden history of performance in conversations with key artists who have shaped this history since 1968. Their memories, accompanied by extensive documentation, paint a vivid picture of the vibrancy and importance of performance art in Wales and elsewhere.

Trace Samizdat Press, 2008 ISBN 0955392721 RRP £10 - available through amazon and other retailers.

Eventful Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art

Maska (Issue: History – Experience – Archive) 117–118 (Autumn 2008), pp. 69-77.

Information.

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

Cyfrwng (Media Wales Journal) 5 (2008), pp. 54-72.