PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT : 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.

CALL : more information

Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968

We are looking for Aberystwyth residents and students of 1968 who have memories of a 3 day arts event that took place at the Parish Hall in November of that year. It was called Miss Rainbow Day, Brian Lane and the First Dream Machine and was organised by the Guild of Students (including John Osborne, Bob Marsland, Steve Mills) as part of the annual Aberystwyth Arts Festival.

If you have any memories of these events, or know somebody who does, please get in touch!
mail@performance-wales.org

ARCHIVE: more information

DATABASE of Performance art in Wales 1965-2007 now available!

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

EVENTS : more information

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]

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: more information

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

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

Remembering Performance - Heike Roms in conversation with Ivor Davies

Platfform (Contemporary performance practice in Wales) tri/3 (August 2007), pp. 13-17.

Performance and Protest by Heike Roms

Heike Roms re-visits the international performance art programme at the National Eisteddfod in 1977. In conversation with Timothy Emlyn Jones, John Chris Jones and Andrew Knight, she discusses its attempt to connect a radical art practice with local cultural concerns, as well as its legacy.

new welsh review Issue 76, Summer 2007