KEYNOTES

ADRIAN HEATHFIELD

Adrian Heathfield is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at Roehampton University, London.
He curates, creates and writes on performance. He is the editor of Live: Art and Performance (Tate Publishing 2004) and Small Acts: Performance, The Millennium and the Marking of Time (Black Dog Publications 2000). He co-edited the box publication  Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance (Arnolfini  Live 1997) and On Memory, an issue of Performance Research (Vol.  5, No. 3, Routledge 2000). His essays have been published in numerous books and journals including Cabinet, Hybrid, Performance Research,  Cultural Studies,  Frakcija,  Art and Design, Yishu, Connect, and Space and Culture. www.adrianheathfield.net

Adrian is represented here by the abstract of his keynote paper which can be read in full in his forthcoming publication Out Of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh.

Abstract: ‘Walking Out of Life’

 

KATY DEEPWELL

Katy Deepwell is founder and commissioning editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (since 1996). She is Reader in Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism,and Head of Research Training, University of the Arts, London. Her books include: Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland. (London: IB Tauris, 2005); (co-edited with Mila Bredikhina) The Gender, Theory and Art Anthology, 1970-2000  (Moscow: Rosspen Publishing House, 2005) English title of Russian Book; (ed)Women Artists and Modernism (Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1998);  (ed) New Feminist Art Criticism (edited) (Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1995).

Katy is represented here by the abstract of her keynote, access to her writing can be accessed through n.paradoxa website.

Abstract: ‘Reading through Repetition(s):feminist art practices’ periodic re-emergence at the centre of  discourses of contemporary art ‘

 

IAIN FORYTH AND JANE POLLARD-In Conversation with Ceri Hand Director of Metal Liverpool

Forsyth and Pollard work collaboratively and are pioneers of the current trend in art practice exploring re-enactment as an artistic genre. Their work has been highly acclaimed, from their first live project in 1996, ‘The World Won’t Listen’, to the seminal ‘A Rock N Roll Suicide’ at the ICA in 1998, their work continues to engage with the ‘soundtrack underpinning everyday life’.  They recently exhibited ‘Silent Sound’, as part of the Liverpool Biennial.

Ian White, Art Review
"The magnitude and sensitivity of this engagement should not be underestimated. Its terms, beyond any binary, liberal accusations of exploitation, dared to embrace, more extremely than before, the tragic flaw lying between chance and action that makes Forsyth and Pollard's epic structures of re-performance such extraordinary works of art."

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