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Video extract: Anthony Howell in conversation with Heike Roms, 15 March 2006. Please wait a moment for the video to
load. "As yet there exists no grammar covering performance's discipline,
a discipline which is nevertheless clearly distinct from that of
theatre. Initially I set out to rectify this absence of a grammar.
I took colour as my model. Aside from black and white, painting
has three indivisible primaries. Mixing these produces secondary
colours. Similarly, performance has three primaries, and these may
be mixed to create secondary actions. The primary actions are stillness,
repetition and inconsistency.” (Anthony Howell, The Analysis of Performance Art - A Guide to its Theory and Practice, Amsterdam: Harwood 1999: xiii)
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Anthony Howell Thu 15 Mar 2007 (as part of CARDIFF ART IN TIME 2007) Anthony Howell is a poet, novelist and performance artist. He was
founder and director of The Theatre of Mistakes - a seminal
performance company of the seventies, with whom he showed work at
many notable international art venues from the Tate Gallery to the
Sidney Biennale. He has also published a novel and several books
of poetry and has lectured widely on his performance work. He is
the author of The Analysis of Performance Art, and the co-author
of Elements of Performance Art, the first compendium of performance
exercises. A trained ballet dancer, he has recently developed 'Tango
Art' - a fusion of the tango and performance art, with which he
has toured widely.
Photo: Tim Freeman. Howell worked for many years as Senior Lecturer in Time-Based
Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. During this time
he was the editor of Grey Suit: Video for Art & Literature
- an influential performance magazine distributed on VHS - and the
organiser of Cardiff Art in Time, the UK's most vibrant performance
art and video festival of the 1990s.
Anthony Howell was in conversation about his own work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1990s and his involvement in Grey Suit and Cardiff Art in Time. The conversation was part of The CAT Show - Cardiff Art in Time International Purrr-formance Art 2007, a revival of the old Cardiff Art in Time festival series. It was staged in the Space Workshop at Cardiff School of Art Design, for many years the location of Howell's work as a teacher, in front of an audience including many of Howell's former students. |
