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What’s Welsh for Performance? Beth yw ‘Performance’ yn Gymraeg? – An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales |
What is the relationship between performance art and experimental theatre? It has often been claimed that whilst in North America performance art grew out of painting and sculpture, in Britain artists aligned themselves more closely with alternative theatre and its radical traditions. In Wales, the borders between experimental theatre and performance art have indeed always been fluid. Here theatre artists have often embraced artistic strategies that are familiar from performance art, such as site-specificity, task-based physical action, the use of duration and a greater attention to the audience.Three of the most important Wales-based experimental theatre artists of the last few decades, Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore and Mike Pearson, will be in conversation about their work, Cardiff’s performance scene in the 1970s and 1980s and their involvement in Chapter Arts Centre. Janek Alexander worked as a performer and director with companies such as Diamond Age, before becoming theatre programmer for Chapter. He is now the Arts Centre’s director. Geoff Moore is artistic director of Moving Being, one of the first multimedia and interdisciplinary performance groups in the UK. Mike Pearson was a founding member of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre in the 1970s and Brith Gof in the 1980s, and still makes performance work with Pearson/ Brookes. What’s Welsh for Performance? Beth yw ‘Performance’ yn Gymraeg? – 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 Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore, Mike Pearson, Richard Gough, Phil Babot, André Stitt and Simon Whitehead 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 December 2007. Season 2 (2007-8): Janek Alexander, Geoff Moore, Mike Pearson .......... 18 October 2007 6pm Richard Gough .......... 22 November 2007 6pm (Location: The Foundry, Aberystwyth) Phil Babot, André Stitt, Simon Whitehead ...24 January 2008 6pm 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; Centre for Performance Research and Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Location: Space Workshop, Time-Based Art Department, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Howard Gardens, Cardiff CF24 0SP Parking available. Disabled access. Admission free - to book contact mail@performance-wales.org |
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