2 September to 9 September 2010. Times and prices vary

A series of events exploring the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse through workshops, presentations, performances, discussions and screenings.

Contributors include Janine Antoni, Jonathan Burrows, Tim Etchells, Ong Keng Sen, Peggy Phelan and many more.

Performing Idea Archive
Saturday 2 – Saturday 9 October 
11am to 6pm daily (closed Monday)
Free, open access, no booking required
Whitechapel Gallery Reading Room, via Gallery 4

A small sound and video archive looking at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas.

Featured works include:

Marina Abramovic
Performing Body, Live Culture (2003)

John Baldessari 
Sings Lewitt (1972)

Jérôme Bel
The Last Performance (2004)

Mel Brimfield 
This Is Performance Art – Performed Sculpture and Dance (2010)

Tania Bruguera 
Tatlin's Whisper #6 ( Havana version, 2009)

William S. Burroughs 
Lecture on Public Discourse (1980, audiotape)

Marcia Farquhar 
To The Shelter (2010)

Goat Island 
Lecture in a Stair Shape Diminishing (2001, audiotape)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña 
Live Culture Symposium Lecture (2003)

Raimund Hoghe
Throwing The Body Into The Fight (2000)

Lone Twin 
Walk With Me, Walk With Me, Will Somebody Please Walk With Me (2000)

William Pope.L 
Live Culture Symposium Lecture (2003)

John Waters 
This Filthy World (2007)

Please click here for more information.

Organised by Performance Matters, a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency, Goldsmiths, University of London, and RoehamptonUniversity. Supported by Visiting Arts and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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