Performance Matters website launches

A dedicated website for Performance Matters, a three-year creative research project, has launched.

Performance Matters is a collaboration between Goldsmiths, Roehampton University, and the Live Art Development Agency. The project brings together artists, curators and academics to investigate the challenges that contemporary performance presents to ideas of cultural value.

The website will carry information about collaborators and events, announce news stories and updates on activities, as well as being a space for expanded writings, ideas and images about and around the issues at the heart of the project.

Along with the research team, Gavin Butt, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Visual Cultures, and Co-Director of Performance Matters, thinks the project will be of interest to a range of audiences including scholars, artists, curators, cultural workers and audiences across the fields of visual art, performance, theatre and dance. Particularly as the project seeks to generate a new field of possibilities for research on, and as, contemporary performance; one which will find further fruit in the future practices of new generations of artists, performers and theorists.

Gavin goes on to explain that Performance Matters will comprise numerous events and activities: collaborations between artists and writers on creative dialogue projects; a series of practical workshops; two public symposia; the publication of a book; the development of two innovative PhD projects; and a series of talks focused around the project’s concerns.

To register your interest and keep up to date with the project, send an email to info@thisisperformancematters.co.uk with the subject heading ‘Register me’.
 
Performance Matters is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Visit the website at www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk.