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Performance Matters Launch

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of Performance Matters

On Friday 30 April 2010
From 19.00 to 22.00
At Club Row Gallery, Club Row, London E2 7ES

As a subscriber to the Performance Matters website we are delighted to let you know about the Performance Matters launch day events on 30 April, and to offer you priority booking for the evening programme.

Performance Matters is a three-year creative research project bringing together artists, curators and academics to investigate the challenges that contemporary performance presents to ideas of cultural value. Performance Matters is an unprecedented collaboration between the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University and the Live Art Development Agency.

Daytime events from 12.00 – 16.00 on 30 April:
The Performance Matters launch day begins with a Performance Laboratory showing experimental durational and scheduled performances by some of the PhD researchers associated with the project at Goldsmiths and Roehampton. The day will feature responses and discussions with invited thinkers around issues of duration, transmission, materiality and process.

The Performance Laboratory will include works by Annalaura Alifuoco & Lis Austin, Augusto Corrieri & Owen Parry, Danae Theodoridou, Ella Jean Finer, Fabrizio Manco, Gigi Argyropoulou & Lisa Alexander, João Florêncio, Jungmin Song, Mathias Danbolt & R Justin Hunt, and Pavlos Kountouriotis & Sarah Louise Spies

All are welcome to attend and no booking is required.

Evening events from 19.00 to 22.00 on 30 April:
The Performance Matters launch evening will feature -
- An in-conversation between artist Walid Raad and theorist Irit Rogoff.
- A drinks reception and speeches by Pat Loughrey, Goldsmiths Warden and Paul O’Prey, Vice-Chancellor Roehampton University.
- Presentations by the project organisers Gavin Butt of Goldsmiths, Adrian Heathfield of Roehampton University, and Lois Keidan of the Live Art Development Agency.
- Announcements of forthcoming Performance Matters programmes and events.

You must reserve a place for the evening event and can do so by emailing bookings@thisisperformancematters.co.uk by 15 April 2010 at the latest.

With best wishes,

Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths), Adrian Heathfield (Roehampton University) and Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency)

How to get here: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/about_us/how_to_get_here.html

 

Image: Courtsey of Walid Raad

Performance Matters is a creative research project exploring the contemporary values associated with performance at a time when it has increased resonance as a cultural phenomenon, and as a concept and metaphor in critical discourse.

A collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, Roehampton University, and the Live Art Development Agency. Performance Matters is supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.