Drawing on a range of archives, this paper focusses on two performance works, One for Sorrow Two for Joy (1976) and Mind the Gap (1980).

Found in miscellaneous article folder #6

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Rare visual records of interventions, performance pieces and happenings from the period before 1989.

3h 14min

See also: Czech Action Art – Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain (P2959).

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain 

Action Art, similar to performance art but not requiring an audience, emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. Until now this movement has received little critical attention, as the Iron Curtain prevented its dissemination to an international audience.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

A collection of filmed work, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Troubleyn. Contains 17 DVDs and a 48 page booklet.

English and French subtitles.

Contains: Jan Fabre beyond the artist (documentary, 52′);  Le pouvoir des folies théatrales (257′), Drugs kept me alive (73′),  Preparatio mortis (51′), Les années de l’heure bleue (documentary, 32′), Prometheus Landscape II (94′), Pietas (documentary, 26′), Orgy of tolerance (103′), From the feet to the brain (documentary, 26′), Requiem for a metamorphosis (116′), Jan Fabre au Louvre (documentary, 47′), Another sleepy dusty delta day (56′), L’histoire des larmes (101′), Quando l’uomo principale è una donna (51′), Je suis sang (93′), My movements are alone like streetdogs (33′) + additional content

Armed with nine 1970’s tape recorders, Kevlin delivers a laboratory solo that revisits several unfinished conversations with himself.

Unti 24 gallery, 11 January 2015.

22:42

A TV documentary following Howells' visit to Israel, where he performed at the Women's International Festival. With Hebrew and Russian subtitles. 

42 minutes. 

A portfolio of Artsadmin projects and performances. Includes postcards with technical, touring and artistic details.

Festival book; it sets out in search of a different kind of closeness – and finds it through contributions written by programmed artists, artist portraits, theoretical comments dealing with the festival’s leitmotif, “Back to the Future”, essays, reports or series of pictures.

Festival dates: 25 September – 18 October 2015.

Artist Ruth Ewan invited Strood residents to share their skills and knowledge of the town’s heritage, hidden stories, myths past and present, to be weaved into a subversive pantomime for the town. This performance programme includes the full script, invited writings and local archive material.

Performed on 22nd December 2015. 

Exhibition catalogue. In Welsh and English.

National Museum Cardiff, 14 November 2015 –  20 March 2016.