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1993

 

The National Review of Live Art
Tuesday 19 October - Sunday 24 October 1993
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

International Conference
"State of The Art" a two day debate on cultural identity and live art practice in the UK and the USA.

Commissioned Artists
Pepon Osorio ...............................................................installation
Forced Entertainment ......................"12AM: Awake and looking down"
Annie Griffin ......................................"Women Who Love Tom Jones"

Invited Artists
Pomo Afro Homos ........................................................"Dark Fruit"
Mehmet Sander .............................................................."5 solos"
The Hittite Empire "The Under Siege Stories" + "Shango Walks Through Fire"
Denise Uyehara ................................"Headless Turtleneck Relatives"
Judith Jackson .................................................."The N*gg*r Café"
Performance South West:-
Sally Morgan ..................................................."A Life In Diagrams"
Gillian Dyson ........................................................."Corvus Corvax"
Sally Tallant ......................................................................"Scar"
Tim Brennan ...................."Exhalations: Fortress Europe Nos. 62 & 63"
Theatre of Small Mercies ............................"Skating For Many Scars"
Stan's Café ......................................................."Canute The King"
David Izod ............................................................"Thanks Bobby"
Bag 5 .........................................................."Minding The Lacuna"

Platform Performers
Blissbody
DSS Machina ..............................................."ISBN 0-88022-554-8"
Rudkin & Wand ................................................"Robot Man Speaks"
Alexander Harvey ............................................."Fix" + "Kiss Of Life"
Cindy Cummings ......................................"I luv merika, goddammit"
Jill Henderson ....................................................."Evolution Tables"
Charles Sandison .............................................."ai - behaviour 5.0"
Donna Rutherford ..........................................................."Ochone"
Geraldine Monk ................................"Interregnum: The Performance"
Dead Penelope .................................................."Irena's Name Day"
Sarah Rees .............."Respiratory Exercises; Submergence/Emergence"
Raukus Mir .............................................................."We Straddle"
Short & Sweet ......................................."Starting Again From Zero"
Robert Pacitti ............................................."He Was A Scary Baby"
Plane Performance ........................"Disappearing Tonight at the Elite"
Theo Sims .........................................................."Ever Been Had?"
Francesca Goldsworthy $ Lizzy Johnson ................."The Jagged Edge"
Francesca Gore .............................................................."Encore"
Simon Arrowsmith .............................."Julie Andrews Ate My Calvins"
Rachel Howfield .........................................."Collect Your Thoughts"
Suzanne Gorman ...................................................."Rites of Spice"
Michael Atavar ..........................................................."Tiny Stars"
G-Spot .........................................."The Racket…Chasing The Myth"

Video Artists
Protest and Style in the New America (3 x 90 mins. packages)
501: Protest and Style in the New America, commissioned from the Film and Video Umbrella, London.

Talks
Mehmet Sander with Mary Brennan
Denise Uyehara with Paul Codiga
Judith Jackson with Lois Keidan
Pepon Osorio gallery tour
Hittite Empire with Bob Wisdom
Lunch with Pomo Afro Homos
The Theatre of Small Mercies with Alan Read
Performance South West with Stefan Szczelkun
Forced Entertainment with Alan Read
Happy Hour with Stan's Café, David Izod, Bag 5 and Robert Overson
"Support Structures For Survival" with Tim Etchells and Annie Griffin
Platform Discussion chaired by Nikki Milican

There were no NRLA festivals in the years 1991 and 1992.