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A research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of Performance Art in Wales. Prosiect ymchwil i ddadorchuddio ac archifo hanes Celf Perfformio yng Nghymru.
Project Director Cyfarwyddwr Prosiect:
Heike Roms Contact:
Dr Heike Roms Funded by Wedi ei drawsgronni gan:
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What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'performance' yn Gymraeg?:lectures :darlithoedd
Talks and PresentationsPUBLIC LECTURE: on the Performance Art Pavilion at the Wrexham Eisteddfod 1977, as part of Retracing the Spiral - Beuys and the National Eisteddfod 1977' - National Museum Wales Cardiff 10 November 2011. [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 'Can a Network have Margins? When Fluxus came to West Wales (1968)' at Fluxus Today: Action Art in Performance, Research, Exhibition, Archive, Akademie der Künste, 21-23 October 2011, Berlin / D [more info] [mehr Infos] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: ‘Performing Memory: Documenting the History of Performance Art in Wales’, archiv performativ. A Model Concept for the Documentation and Re-Enactment of Performance Art Conference, 6-8 October 2011, Theater Kaserne Basel/ CH SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION: 'Of Firebricks and Wooden Blocks – Revisiting the Art Controversies of the Late 1970s', Culture, Change and Continuity in the 1970s Symposium, Aberystwyth University 15 September 2011, Aberystwyth / UK CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: 'When Yoko Ono didn't come to Cardiff: Locating the early history of performance art in Wales, 1965-1979’,TaPRA 2011 Conference, University of Kingston, 8 September 2011[more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: 'The Avant-Garde in the Classroom: Historical Approaches to Learning and Teaching as Performance Art 1965–1975', Lehren und Lernen von Performancekunst Conference, as part of Platform Young Performance Artists, 29 July 2011, Flutgraben e.V., Berlin / D CONFERENCE PAPER: (with Rebecca Edwards) 'A Welsh International: Locating the international history of performance art in Wales 1965–1979', International Conference on Media and Culture in Small Nations, Cyfrwng International Conference 2011, ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, 16–17 June 2011, Cardiff / UK [more info] CONFERENCE PAPER: (with Rebecca Edwards) 'Archiving Legacies: Who cares for Performance Remains?', Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience, PSi 17 Performance Studies International Conference, Theatre Studies at Utrecht University, 25–29 May 2011, Utrech t/ NL [more info] CONFERENCE PAPER [PLENARY]: (with Rebecca Edwards)'Restaging a Revolution – The first Welsh ‘happening’ (Cardiff 1965)’ - Wales and Revolution, AWWE in collaboration with the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies 23rd Annual Conference, April 8-10 2011, Gregynog Hall / UK [more info] CONFERENCE PAPER [PLENARY]: (with Rebecca Edwards)'"It was forty years ago today" - Locating the Early History of Performance Art in Wales 1965–1979’ - Theatre, Film and Television Studies Annual Conference for Postgraduate and Staff Research, April 5+6 2011, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth / UK RESEARCH PRESENTATION: as part of the 'Histories of Live Art' panel, with Gavin Butt (Goldsmith) and Dominic Johnson (Queen Mary). London Theatre Seminar, 24 February 2011, Venue: G35, Senate House, Ground Floor - London. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: "Performing the Gift of the Archive" - "Affective Archives" - PSi Regional Cluster" conference, Vercelli, Italy 11–13 November 2010. [more info] SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATION AND CHAIR: "Living Archives - Session with Rose English and Anne Bean" - Performing Idea symposium, part of Performance Matters, Goldsmiths University of London, Roehampton University and Live Art Development Agency, funded by an AHRC Research Grant, Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Studios, 6 October 2010. [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: "Performance art (in) history: disconnecting traditions, connecting histories" - "TAPRA: History and Historiography Working Group", TaPRA THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION conference, Glamorgan University, Cardiff 9–11 September 2010. [more info] PUBLIC PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance?- Creating a record of performance art in Wales- "Documentation and the Cultural Record" session at Culture Colony-Y Wladfa Newydd launch day, 7 September 2010, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. [more info and documentation]; [response] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: "Teaching the Avant-garde - (Mis)Performing Pedagogies" - "MISperformance -an inverted approach to doing Performance Studies (international?) - PSi15 follow-up event" conference, Rijeka, Croatia 3–5 September 2010. CONFERENCE PAPER: (with Rebecca Edwards) "'Welsh Not': Performing Wales in 1970s Performance Art" - "Theorizing Wales: Gender, Culture, Politics" conference, Swansea University, Gregynog 12–14 July 2010. [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Performing An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - "[Record] [Create] Oral History in Art, Craft and Design (Oral History Society Annual Conference 2010)" conference, Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2+3 July 2010. [more info]
PUBLIC PRESENTATION/ ORAL HISTORY CONVERSATION:"'What's Welsh for Performance?’ Archiving the history of performance art in Wales 1965-2010" - Featuring Ivor Davies in conversation with Heike Roms on Destruction in Art London / Edinburgh / Durham / Bristol / Swansea 1966-1969; As part of ICA's LIVE WEEKENDS: Futures and Pasts - curated by Tim Etchells; ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 22 May 2010. [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - Oral History/Theatre History: Past - Present - Future conference, Rose Bruford College London, 17 April 2010. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: Enquiring into the properties of sculpture: Tom Hudson's performance pedagogy in the 1960s- Sculpture & Performance conference, Henry Moore Institute and Tate Liverpool, Leeds and Liverpool 24–26 March 2010. [more info]; [recording]
ROUNDTABLE CONTRIBUTION: Remembering Performance through Oral History- Roundtable: 'Remembering Performance' - A panel discussion with contributions from Claire MacDonald, Fiona Wright, Richard Layzell and Heike Roms, chaired by Paul Clarke; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow 21 March 2010. [more info]
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: Eventful Evidence: Between Memory and the Archive - ARCHIV/PRAXIS Arbeitstagung Conference, Tanzarchiv und Universität Leipzig, 10-13 December 2009. RESEARCH SEMINAR: Performance (in) History – Archives, Memories and Re-enactments- York St John University, 23 November 2009. RESEARCH SEMINAR: Eventful Evidence: Performance Historiographies, Dept Dance, Film and Theatre, Surrey University, 20 November 2009. CONFERENCE PAPER: Performing the History of Performance: Re-enacting 1960s performance - The Past is Still to Change: Performing History from 1945 to the Present International Conference, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania), 21-23 October 2009. PRESENTATION: Oral Histories of Performance - Digital Documentation and Performance, hosted by JISC Digital Media and the University of Bristol Drama Department - series of three one-day events on the topics of creating, managing and delivering digital documentation of performance work conference, Bristol, 23-25 September 2009. [more info] PRESENTATION [PLENARY]: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - NOTES on a Return symposium (curator: Sophia Hao), Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 4-5 September 2009. GUEST LECTURE: Performing the History of Performance: Re-enacting 1960s performance art - Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe -Universität Frankfurt 30 June 2009. PRESENTATION: The Gift of the Archive, Contribution to Out of the Box and Dusted Down: Foraging and Findings: A collective event to welcome Honorary Departmental Fellow Barbara Cavanagh and introduce the International Theatre Collection as an active TFTS resource - Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies and the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth University, 12 May 2009. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: "What's Welsh for performance" archive - Panel: 'Archives as Media of Communication', Cyfrwng Conference 2009, hosted by BBC Wales, 7-8 May 2009. [more info] DISCUSSION CHAIR: Cafe Artistique event with guest speaker Bruce Haines - Hosted by Showroom, Y Consti, Aberystwyth, 28 April 2009. [more info and documentation] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Constructions of presence through documentation in early performance art: Ian Breakwell's UNWORD - Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated. An international conference, Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter, UK, 26-29 March 2009. [more info] PRESENTATION: Restaging Fluxus in Aberystwyth 1968-2008 - 'Repetition and Reconstruction' workshop as part of the AHRC-funded Rethinking Archives: History, Media and Memory workshop series, University of the West of England / Arnolfini, Arnolfini Bristol 4 March 2009. [project website] [project archive - documentation] CONVERSATION: In Conversation with John Cale / Yng Nghwmni John Cale - John Cale, who will be representing Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009, in conversation with artist Iwan Bala and Dr. Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University; Miner's Theatre, Ammanford 26 February 2009. CONVERSATION: What’s so magic about an archive? - Malcolm Taylor, Director of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, and Doc Rowe in conversation; Facilitator: Dr Heike Roms; as part of The Mary Neal Day, Cecil Sharp House London, 7 February 2009. PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - Archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales, London Theatre Seminar panel on archives and archiving with Kate Dorney (Curator of Contemporary Theatre Collections, V&A), Bonnie Hewson (UCL) and Matthew Reason (University of York St John), London Senate House 8 January 2009. [more info] LECTURE [PLENARY]: What's Welsh for Performance? An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales [Kaj je valizanskega v performansu? Uprizarjanje "oralne zgodovine performansa v Walesu"] - Lecture at the East Dance Academy – On archiving, performing and displaying the history of contemporary dance and performance: Dogodek o zgodovinjenju, arhiviranju in rekonstruiranju sodobne scenske umetnosti, Maska / Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana 23-26 November 2008. [more info] PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - Uncovering and Archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales. - 1st Culture Colony - Y Wladfa Newydd conference Create, Communicate, Conserve, MOMA Wales, Y Tabernacl Machynlleth 7 November 2008. [more info] [review] OPEN LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Uncovering and Archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales - Theatre Academy Helsinki, 23 October 2008 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Performing Place, Writing, Voice - An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - Place, Writing and Voice conference, University of Plymouth 5-6 September 2008 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Eventful Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art - TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) History and Historiography Working Group - TaPRA conference, Leeds University 3-5 September 2008 [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Remembering Performance – Performing Memory: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage - SIBMAS conference, Glasgow RSAMD 25-29 August 2008 [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Eventful Evidence: Historicizing Performance Art - as part of a panel curated by Heike Roms on Archival Events and Eventful Archives: In-Between Performance and Document with Paul Clarke, University of Bristol: 'Ephemera: Performing the Archive'; Mike Pearson, Aberystwyth University: 'Theatre/Archaeology: visualising past performance'; Johannes Lothar Schröder, Hamburg: 'Schauwerk –BLACK BOX as a Platform for Activities'. Moderator: Dee Heddon, University of Glasgow - INTERREGNUM: In Between States – PSi # 14 conference, University of Copenhagen 20-24 August 2008 [more info] [Johannes Lothar Schröder Schauwerk blog with a report from the conference in German] 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 info] PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - Conserving and Archiving Ephemeral Artworks workshop, University of Bristol 25 June 2008 [more info] CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Cyber/Stage - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales - New Platforms :: Convergence, CYFRWNG 2008 CONFERENCE, Aberystwyth University, National Library Of Wales, 1-2 May 2008 - [more info] / Llwyfannau Newydd :: Cydgyfeiriant, CYNHADLEDD CYFRWNG 2008, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 1-2 Mai 2008 - [myw of wybodaeth] PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'performance' yn Gymraeg? - Presentation to a group of international curators as part of a series of events accompanying Artes Mundi 3, Aberystwyth Arts Centre 22 April 2008. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION: Remembering Performance– An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales- Oral History and Performance: OHMAR 2008 Spring Conference, Columbia University, New York; Saturday 15 March 2008 [more info] PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - National Review of Live Art (New Moves International), Glasgow, Tramway 07 February 2008 [more info]
INTERVIEW: On Performance Art in Wales - Thursday 24 January 2008 - 18:32 Radio Wales Arts Show Nicola Heywood Thomas presents reports and analysis in a weekly review of Wales's thriving arts scene [more info] PRESENTATION: ... repeat it, repeat it, repeat it until something new enters the world’ – Performance, Archive and the Future - As part of the conference Prognoses on Movement(s) (Prognosen über Bewegung(en)), an interdisciplinary conference at the Berlin Free University’s Centre for Research on Movement, 1-2 December 2007. [more info] LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales - at the 'Performing the Archive: Works Past to Present' Research Event at University of Bristol, Department of Drama. Launch of the three-year Great Western Research project, 'Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past', which is based in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection's Live Art Archives and Arnolfini Live's archives, partnered with Exeter University Department of Drama. Theatre, University of Bristol Department of Drama, Cantock's Close, 1 November, 5.15-7pm with Professor Mike Pearson, Performance Studies, Aberystwyth University, on 'The Brith Gof Archive Project' LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales- Inaugural Lecture of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries Research Seminar Series 2007/8, ARTriuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, 17.10.07 PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - As part of the workshop on 'Staging, Exhibiting, Curating', at the European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 26 – 30 September 2007 [more info]
PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - Archiving Performance Art ("Walijskosc a performance? Archiwizujac sztuke performance") . At the European Performance Art Festival EPAF Warsaw 2007, 7 September 2007. [more info] PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? - A performance archive . At the symposium A Visual Arts Archive for Cardiff, Visual Arts Forum Cardiff, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff - 25 June 2007 organised by Simon Fenoulhet on behalf of VAF. Other speakers: Simon Fenoulhet, Euryn Ogwen - Williams, Gary Malkin (Baltic). PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales. At Placing (Oral) History, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow - 18 June 2007 [part of: Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles]
PRESENTATION: What's Welsh for Performance? - A performance archive - At the First Symposium on Archive, Memory and Performance, hosted by the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth 25-27 May 2007 PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for performance? Uncovering and archiving 40 years of Performance Art in Wales. At Aberystwyth School of Art, University of Wales Aberystwyth - 2 May 2007 [Lunchtime Lecture Series] PRESENTATION: An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - At Curatorial Practices - From Live Art to the Archive at Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol - 30 April 2007 [part of: Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles]
PRESENTATION: Archiving Performance - At the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Staff and Student Research Conference, University of Wales Aberystwyth - Gregynog 23-25 March 2007 PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance? PUBLIC LECTURE: What's Welsh for Performance?
Images top: Heike Roms and John Cale, Ammanford 2009, Photo: P. Finnemore; Heike Roms at the EPAF Festival, Warsaw 2007; Heike Roms, André Stitt and Guy Sioui Durand at Le Lieu, Quebec 2004. |
If you have any information on performance in Wales that could be of use to the project, please get in touch!
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