'It was forty years ago today
':
Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965-1979
What's Welsh for Performance? -
45 years of Performance Art in Wales

Project Director:
Dr Heike Roms,
Performance Studies, Dept Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
Aberystwyth University, UK
Research Assistant:
Dr Rebecca Edwards,
Dept Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University,
UK
Funded by:
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC)
The ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
SIR DAVID HUGHES PARRY AWARDS 2006+2008
University RESEARCH FUND, Aberystwyth University (formerly
University of Wales Aberystwyth)
With support from:
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University; SHIFTwork Time Based Art Research
Group, Cardiff School of Art and Design University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff Athrofa Prifysgol Cymru, Caerdydd and / a Chapter



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NEWS: WHAT'S WELSH FOR PERFORMANCE COMMISSION
FUND
We are pleased to announce the 'What's Welsh
for Performance? / Beth yw 'Performance' yn Gymraeg?' Commission
Fund (worth £1,000) in support of a new work by a Wales-based
artist or artists, to be presented at this year's Experimentica
10 festival (Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff 1317 October
2010).
There is no special application process for this
fund. All proposals by Wales-based artists to this year's Experimentica
festival will automatically be considered for support. For details
on how to make a proposal, visit Chapter's website.
What's Welsh for Performance? / Beth yw 'Performance'
yn Gymraeg?' Commission Fund is financed by What's Welsh
for Performance? / Beth yw 'Performance' yn Gymraeg?, with support
from trace: installaction artspace and trace: SAMIZDAT
Press.
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.
A project description can be found here.

FUTURE PRESENTATIONS:
[full
list of past 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 1214 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
35 September 2010.
* Conference Presentation:
"Performance art (in) history: disconnecting traditions,
connecting histories", at the "TAPRA: History and
Historiography Working Group" conference, Glamorgan University,
Cardiff 911 September 2010. Details
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
.. ..
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.
Proceeds from the sales of this
publication go toward commissioning a new piece of work from a young
Wales-based artist for Experimentica 2010. See above for details.
Eventful
Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art
Maska (Issue: History
Experience Archive) 117118 (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.
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