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what’s welsh for performance? beth yw ‘performance’ yn gymraeg? – An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales |
Location: Space Workshop, Time-Based Art Department, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0SPAdmission free - to book contact mail@performance-wales.org . 07980-981355. “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.” [A. Howell, The Analysis of Performance Art – A Guide to its Theory and Practice,1999] 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. 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 will be in conversation about his own work, Cardiff's performance scene in the 1990s and his involvement in Grey Suit and Cardiff Art in Time. “What’s Welsh for Performance?” – An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales A two-year series of events devoted to key artists who have shaped the development of performance art in Wales since 1968. Public conversations with Ivor Davies, Roland Miller, Shirley Cameron, Anthony Howell and others will introduce the audience to a previously neglected but crucial part of Welsh art history. Extensive documentary material (videos, slides, drawings etc) will be screened as part of each event. A publication accompanying the series is planned for 2007. Project: Dr Heike Roms; in collaboration with SHIFTwork Time Based Art Research Group, Cardiff School of Art and Design . Funded by: The Arts Council of Wales With support from: University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of Wales Institute, Cardiff; and Chapter. |
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