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TRACE:
presents
THE CAT SHOW

CARDIFF ART IN TIME
International PURRR-formance Art

14th ­ 17th March 2007
Cardiff School of Art & Design [CSAD]
University of Wales Institute Cardiff [UWIC]
Howard Gardens
Cardiff CF24 1SP

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE


Cardiff Art In Time, affectionately known as the ŒCAT Show¹, revives one of
the seminal performance art festivals of the 1990s with an international
programme of time-based art, curated, produced and directed by TRACE
Install-Action Artspace, Cardiff. The event takes place at TRACE, CSAD
[Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC], the National Museum of Wales and
Cardiff City Centre locations.

Cardiff Art In Time features live presentations by some of the foremost
performance artists working in the world today, including:

Adina Bar-on [Israel]; Julie Andree T. [Québec]; Eddie Ladd [Cymru]; Arai
Shin Ichi [Japan]; Paul Granjon [France]; Alastair Maclennan [N. Ireland];
Jamie McMurry [USA]; Shaun Caton [England]; Ointment [Cymru]; Roi Vaara
[Finland]; Anne Bean [England]; Gustav Uto [Romania]; Julian Blaine
[France]; Clemente Padin [Uruguay]

Cardiff Art In Time¹s ŒAlumni programme¹ welcomes back to Cardiff its
successful Time Based Art graduates from the Cardiff School of Art, now
established, internationally recognised artists:

Eve Dent; Kira O¹Reilly; Matt Cook; Paul Hurley; Kim Simons; Tim Bromage;
Richard Dedomenici; Robin Deacon

Cardiff Art In Time is accompanied by lectures and conversations (featuring
Roddy Hunter, Phil Babot and Anthony Howell), a student programme selected
from art schools in the UK and abroad and nightly music events.

A special exhibition of archival materials, entitled ŒTraces¹, examining
performance art residues, temporal objects, documentation and ephemera, will
be running concurrently at the Howard Gardens Gallery, CSAD (open daily
throught the event).

See attached for a full programme of CAT 07.

SUPPORTED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES.


TRACE
installaction artspace
26 Moira Place
Cardiff CF24 0ET
Wales/UK
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www.tracegallery.org



WED 14th March 07

14.00 - 15.00: Lecture Programme & Book Launch - Roddy Hunter
Lecture Theatre, CSAD
Scottish artist and academic Roddy Hunter is Head of Art at Dartington
College of Art. He will talk about his work and his new book (published by
Samizdat Press), which investigates our relationship to social space.

15.30 - 16.00: Adina Bar-on [Israel]
Space Workshop, CSAD
LO, LO, LO / NO, NO, NO
My Life Companion has lost his ability to speak anything but "Lo, lo, lo",
meaning "no, no, no" in Hebrew. He repeats it for everything he wishes to
express. Danny, my Life Companion, is a casualty of the Israeli Army and
somehow I find this situation poetic. This performance is about "Poetic
License".

16.30 ­ 17.00: Julie Andree T. [Québec]
Space Workshop, CSAD
Not Water Proof
The performance is a slow transformation through a poetical body. For Julie
Andrée T. practicing art should be a reflection of daily life and the dark
ages we are presently in. She tries to reach a place where personal identity
is lost. Although this is a utopia, it might be the only way to find a
common abstract language to understand what we do and who we are.

19.30 - 20.00: Eddie Ladd [Cymru]
Space Workshop, CSAD
Sawn-off Scarface ­ Scarface bach
Sawn-off Scarface is a duet and a (semi) ironic tribute to Scarface, Brian
de Palma¹s notorious 1983 film classic, starring Al Pacino. Performed to a
short, tough synopsis of the plot, and on something close to a sticky, wet
nightclub floor, it reduces nearly three hours of film action to twelve
minutes. A no-technology attempt on filmic effects and the glamour, cynicism
and homoerotics of the gangster genre.

20.30 ­ late:
Arai Shin Ichi [Japan]
Students Union Bar, CSAD
ŒHappy Japan¹
Nationalism, flag waving, singing, comic books, the theory of warŠ Happy
Japan!

Paul Granjon [France]
Students Union Bar, CSAD
ŒSolid State No Logic¹
Songs and machines specially adapted for operation in the context of a
British student bar.


THURS. 15th March 07

11.00 - 13.00: ŒCatflaps¹ Student Programme
Space Workshop, CSAD

15.00 - 17.00: ŒAlumni¹ Programme: Eve Dent
Durational, throughout the building
ŒAnchor Series¹
As a continuation of an ongoing body of site-specific improvised works which
began in 2003, Eve Dent explores a bodily response to the architectural
structures and features of the building, particularly those that may be
unseen or overlooked, as she retraces the journey she made countless times
as a student.

Kira O¹Reilly
Durational work, 1st floor South Block elevator space
ŒQuiver¹ [Pieta Performance]
The pieta is a universal trope dating back to renaissance Catholic art,
Michelangelo, more recently Marina Abramovic and Sam Taylor Wood.
The artist is naked and sits for the duration of the work.
People can approach her one at a time and be held in a Pieta configuration.
The artist doesn¹t communicate with speech except when absolutely necessary.
The piece will be awkward, tactile, hesitant etc. depending on the people
who approach, their bodies, how they and she grapple with each other, clumsy
intimacies, tottering balances so as not to drop them. The audience perform
themselves, themselves in clumsy embraces, little deaths, lover¹s holdings.
The audience may be clothed or unclothed, depending on their preference.

15.15: Matt Cook
Space Workshop, CSAD
ŒGuerilla Gameshow¹
Part radical training exercise, part interactive quiz and part audio
installation, Matt Cook will ask audience members to assist in using
everyday means in a contest that will lead to the destruction of cross
Atlantic paper aeroplanes.

16.15: Paul Hurley
Space Workshop, CSAD
ŒLove Lecture¹
Delivered from a cross training machine the piece is a reworking of a
performance presented at Sensitive Skin in Nottingham in 2006. In his own
indomitable style Hurley ruminates on love, desire and sexuality.

18.00­19.30:
ŒWhat¹s Welsh For Performance? Beth yw Œperformance¹ yn Gymraeg?¹- with
Anthony Howell
Space Workshop, CSAD
(SHIFTwork Research Group presentation)
An illustrated conversation with Anthony Howell
Conducted by Dr Heike Roms [University of Wales Aberystwyth]
Anthony Howell was head of Time Based Art at CSAD until 1999.
During that time he was editor of the influential video magazine Grey Suit
and director of Theatre of Mistakes. He was also the initiator and director
of Cardiff Art In Time, The CAT Show. He is a poet, novelist and performance
artist, whose work has been presented worldwide at sites including the Tate
Gallery and the Sydney Biennale.

21.00 ­ late:
Arai Shin Ichi [Japan]
Students Union Bar, CSAD
ŒArigatou Beuys - Thank you Beuys¹
We Japanese study Western art very much at not only schools but also from
the fine art magazines etc. There are many misunderstandings but we are very
influenced by it. It is funny but serious both for you and us.

The Threatmantics
Students Union Bar, CSAD


FRI. 16th March 07

11.00 - 13.00: ŒCatflaps¹ Student Programme
Space Workshop, CSAD

12.00 - 18.00: Alastair MacLennan [N. Ireland]
National Museum of Wales
'WAVE to WAIVE'
Wave to waive...'apparent gaps'
between...nature...culture...ethics...aesthetics...bigotry...tolerance...art
ifice... the actual...

14.00 - 15.00: Lecture Programme - Phil Babot [UWIC]
Lecture Theatre, CSAD
ŒTechnicians of Ecstasy¹
Elements of Shamanism within Performance Art

15.00 - 17.00: ŒAlumni¹ Programme:
Space Workshop & locations throughout the building. CSAD

Kim Simons
Space Workshop, CSAD
Seen: Not Heard. 14.00
The body attached to a domestic object becomes one.
As the audience engage, I observe from my space, the unseen
and forgotten cavities within.

15.00: Tim Bromage
Space Workshop, CSAD
ŒTrouble¹
Part of an experimental body of work exploring notions of grief, penance
and the use of magic as symbolic demonstration. Contrasting genuine
physicality with elements of deception, the performance makes reference to
biblical verse and personal experience.

16.00: Richard Dedominici
Space Workshop, CSAD
ŒSuperjumbo¹
Excerpt of Dedomenici's ambitious new prop-heavy but self-contained
performance set within a new Airbus A380.
Promises to be a Lo-fi audio/visual spectacle.

17.00: Robin Deacon
Space Workshop, CSAD
ŒStuart Sherman¹
As series of re-enacted performances by the late American artist

19.00: Jamie McMurry [USA]
Space Workshop, CSAD
ŒArchive¹
Focused on process as practice and biography as content, McMurry's works are
influenced by the murky breeding ground of aggression found in suburban
America.

21.00 ­ late:
Jacuzzi Junta
Students Union Bar, CSAD
The hyperreal kabaret for modern living is a showcase for up and coming as
well as established performers involving music, art & video. Quick fire,
bursting at the seamsŠthe word eclectic becomes superfluous.

The Panacea Society
Students Union Bar, CSAD
Expect high and wide does of uncu Generation Zero whatcoreŠ¹ L.A. Weekly
[duh!]
Stitt & Cook bring you a new set of freak beat, psyche garage, prog techno.


SAT. 17th March 07

11.00 - 13.00: ŒCatflaps¹ Student Programme
Space Workshop, CSAD

12.00 - 18.00: Shaun Caton [England]
Trace: installaction artspace
'...once removed...'
Œonce removed...¹ refers to the act of performance as a stylised and
symbolic ritual of self imposed displacement, permitting metaphysical
contemplation and creative interaction with the immediate environment of the
gallery space. The performance is a living synthesis and crystallization of
images and themes from earlier works made in the 1980's - 90's that may
become recycled and re-examined.
Shaun Caton stopped making performances in 2000 after approximately 15 years
of active involvement in the international performance art arena. He has
presented some 200 live performances worldwide. This specially created new
work for Trace is his first live performance for 7 years.

12.00 - 18.00 : Ointment [Cymru]
Sculpture Court & locations, CSAD
ŒScratch¹
ointment is an itinerant collective of artists working in live and
interdisciplinary art practices based in West Wales. They will perform a
collective work made in situ. The work will respond to the environs of the
building and migrate through it over one day, leaving marks and residue.

15.00 - 17.00: Roi Vaara [Finland]
Queen Street, City Centre
ŒWet Paint Handshakes¹
Best dressed artist on the planet, Roi Vaara is Finland¹s most active and
internationally recognised performance exponent. He has presented work at
the Venice Biennale in 2005 and continues to engage audiences around the
world with his recognisably conceptual, absurd and humorous engagements with
the public.

14.00 ­ 18.00: Anne Bean [England]
Installation Room- Space Workshop CSAD

19.15 ­ 19.30: ŒThis Is your Life¹ Trace: lifetime achievement award
Space Workshop, CSAD

19.30 ­ 21.00: ŒInternational Shorts
Space Workshop, CSAD

Gustav Uto [Romania]
Crown-Caps Map
I remember the Welsh artist Paul Davies, who was the first international
participant in the Transylvanian Performance Art Days event I organised in
1991. Paul was looking for traces of eastern Celtic culture in the
Carpathian mountains. I ask the public at the CAT show to participate in my
action by bringing Bottle Caps as formal symbols for a vital (survival)
energy content of interregional level cultures.

Julian Blaine [France]
Déclaration
Now I don¹t move, I speak with my eye, my mouth, my tongue, my throat, my
palate, my larynx, cage. I read, I say, I speak and so onŠ

Clemente Padin [Uruguay]
Just Do It...!
Denounce the criminal abuse of the big transnational corporations like
McDonald, Texaco, Esso, Microsoft, Nike, etc. An exposition of exploitation
and the abuse of workers in Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia etcŠ

The Heavy Quartet
Students Union Bar, CSAD
Get down and dirty party time with the freaky deaky heavy jazz soul funk
dancin¹ and mind blowin¹ wig out from the Cardiff based ensemble. Are you
ready to testify?!!

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