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

To view unofficial CAT SHOW site visit: www.araiart.jp

Cardiff Art In Time, affectionately known as the CAT show, is a programme of time based art curated, produced and directed by TRACE Install-Action Artspace, Cardiff. The programme takes place at TRACE, CSAD [Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC] the National Museum of Wales and City Centre locations.

The programme consists of live performances by 23 of the foremost internationally recognised artists working in the world today.
The programme also inludes a lectures by academics and practitioners, a student programme selected form art schools in the UK and abroad, an Alumni programme and nightly music events.

The Alumni programme welcomes back successful Time Based Art graduates from Cardiff School of Art who are now established artists
recognised at an international level. A must see for the emerging generation of experimental artists to draw inspiration from and to understand the historical continuity of performance art practice.

A special exhibition of archival materials examining performance art residues, temporal objects, documentation and ephemera will also be running concurrently at the Howard Gardens Gallery, CSAD.

‘TRACES ‘ Trace gallery archive exhibition.
Howard Gardens Gallery, CSAD.
Exhibition open daily throughout the event.

WED14th

14.00 - 15.00: Lecture Prog. & Book Launch - Roddy Hunter
Lecture Theatre, CSAD
Scottish artist an academic Roddy Hunter is Head of Art at Dartington in the South of England. He will talk about his work and his new book published by Samizdat Press that investigates our relationship to social space.

16.00 - 16.30 Adina Bar-on [Israel]
Space Workshop. CSAD
LO, LO, LO / NO, NO, NO
My Life Companion has lost his ability to speak 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 Jeffrey Byrd [usa]
Space Workshop. CSAD
Butterfly
In this piece, Byrd explores longing and desire from both a high and low perspective and in the process finds beauty in unusual places.

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 Palma’s 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 –
Arai Shin Ichi [Japan]
Students Union Bar, CSAD
‘Happy Japan’
Nationalism, flag waving, singing, comic books, the theory of war… Happy Japan!

Paul Granjon [France] ]
‘Solid State No Logic’
Songs and machines specially adapted for operation in the context of a British student bar.

THURS. 15th

15.00 - 17.00: ‘Alumni’ Prog.
Eve Dent
Durational, throughout the building
‘Anchor Series’
As a continuation of an ongoing body of site-specific improvised works which began in 2003, Eve Dent explores a bodily response tothe 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 O’Reilly
Durational work, 1st floor South Block elevator space
‘Quiver’ [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 doesn’t 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, lover’s holdings. The audience may be clothed, unclothed depending on their preference.

Matt Cook - 15.15
Space Workshop. CSAD
‘Guerilla Gameshow’
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.

Paul Hurley - 16.15

Space Workshop. CSAD
‘Love Lecture’
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.

18.0 –19.30: ‘Whats Welsh For Performance Art’
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 with his work presented worldwide including the Tate Gallery and the Sydney Biennale.

20.00 –
Arai Shin Ichi [Japan]
Students Union Bar, CSAD
‘Arigatou Beuys - Thank you Beuys’
We Japanese study westren art very much at not only schools but also from the fine art magazines etc. There are many many misunderstandings but we are very infruenced from. It is funny but serious both for you and us.

The Threatmantics
Students Union Bar, CSAD

FRI. 16th

11.00 - 13.00: ‘Catflaps’ Student Programme
Space Workshop. CSAD

10.00 - 17.00: Alastair Maclennon [N. Ireland]
National Museum of Wales
'WAVE to WAIVE'
Wave to waive...'apparent gaps' between.. nature.. culture...ethics...aesthetics.. bigotry.. tolerance.. artifice.. the actual...

14.00 - 15.00: Lecture Prog. Phil Babot [UWIC]
Lecture Theatre, CSAD
‘Technicians of Ecstasy’
Elements of Shamanism within Performance Art

14.00 - 17.00: ‘Alumni’ Prog.
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.

Tim Bromage 15.00
Space Workshop, CSAD
‘Trouble’
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.

Richard Dedominici – 16.00
Space Workshop, CSAD
‘Superjumbo’
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.

Robin Deacon – 17.00
Space Workshop, CSAD
‘Stuart Sherman’
As series of re-enacted performances by the late American artist

19.00 - Jamie McMurry [ USA]
Space Workshop. CSAD
‘Archive’
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.

20.00 –
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 they seams…the word eclectic becomes superfluous.

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

SAT. 17th

11.00 - 13.00: ‘Catflaps’ Student Programme
Space Workshop. CSAD

12.00 - 18.00: Shaun Caton [England]
Trace: installaction artspace
'...once removed...'
‘once removed...’ 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]
‘Scratch’
Sculpture Court & locations, CSAD
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.

14.00 – 14.30 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.

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

19.15 - ‘This Is your Life’ Trace: lifetime achievement award
Space Workshop. CSAD

19.30 – 21.00 ‘International 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 don’t 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 on…

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 etc…

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

Continuous throughout:

Justin McKeown of the SPART Action Group will be making interventions throughout the course of CAT at various locations in the city centre. From Northern Ireland McKeown’s work explores revolutionary intervention influenced by the International Neoist Conspiracy.

Richard Powell's video 'Moth' will be installed on the Time Based Art stairway at CSAD. The video is based on a recorded ritual by the artist as part of a residency at Cardiff International Airport. Exploring the use of mythological and talismanic materials with a costume made up from the debris collected from the airport bagage conveyer; paraphernalia t had never reached its destination.