“'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
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NEWS: WHAT'S WELSH FOR PERFORMANCE COMMISSION FUNDWe 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 13–17 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 AWARDIn 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 12–14 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 3–5 September 2010. * Conference Presentation: "Performance art (in) history: disconnecting traditions, connecting histories", at the "TAPRA: History and Historiography Working Group" conference, Glamorgan University, Cardiff 9–11 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
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.
Maska (Issue: History – Experience – Archive) 117–118 (Autumn 2008), pp. 69-77.
Cyfrwng (Media Wales Journal) 5 (2008), pp. 54-72.
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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.
Eventful
Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art
What's
Welsh for Performance?: Constructing an Archive of Performance Art
in Wales