Dr. Heike Roms
What’s Welsh For Performance?
This talk introduces What’s Welsh for Performance? - Beth yw ‘performance’ yn Gymraeg?, a research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of performance art in Wales between 1968 and 2008. The talk will consider the current ‘archive fever’ in performance practice, scholarship and curatorship. It will then focus on the two main strands of the Welsh performance archive: an online searchable database (www.performance-wales.org) and a publicly staged Oral History series.