Publication documenting this unique & exhilarating performance art project featureing extensive colour images and text for each artist plus background on the event, students programme, participating music groups and the TRACE archive exhibition that ran concurrently at Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff.

Cardiff Art In Time, affectionately known as the CAT show, was a programme of time based art curated, produced and directed by TRACE Install-Action Artspace, Cardiff. Events took place at TRACE, CSAD [Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC] the National Museum of Wales and City Centre locations during February & March 2007.

The programme consisted of live performances by 28 of the foremost internationally recognised artists working in the world today. The programme also included lectures by academics and practitioners, a student programme ‘Catflaps’, selected form art schools in the UK and abroad, an Alumni programme and nightly music events.

Features the work of some of the worlds foremost contemporary performance art exponents including : Justin McKeown , Roddy Hunter
Sinéad O’Donnel,l, Jeffrey Byrd , Eddie Ladd , Arai Shin Ichi , Paul Granjon , Eve Dent, Kira O’Reilly, Matt Cook .Paul Hurley, Heike Roms, Anthony Howell, Arai Shin Ichi, The Threatmantics, Alastair MacLennon , Phil Babot, Kim Simons, Tim Bromage, Richard Dedomenici, Robin Deacon, Jamie McMurry, Jacuzzi Junta, The Panacea Society,Shaun Caton, Ointment, Julie Andrée T. , Anne Bean, Gustáv ütö , Silvia Ziranek , Clemente Padín, The Heavy Quartet, Richard Powell, Lee Hassall

This retrospective of the first five years of Trace, an independent art gallery in Cardiff, Wales, celebrates its standing as an international center for installation and real-time art. Essays by cultural historian Dr. Heike Roms and artist Julie Bacon chronicle the history of the gallery, and photographs capture the controversial and inventive works that have passed through the gallery doors since opening day.

André Stitt is an internationally acclaimed performance artist and the curator of Trace. Jimmie Durham is an American artist of Cherokee descent whose Still Life with Car and Stone is installed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the Sydney Opera House. Both artists have had work presented at the recent Venice Biennale.

No Sex, No Drugs, No Rock’n’Roll
Just freak-beat, psyche-garage, prog-techno and artyness.
Who do they think they are these performance artists who want to be the new Golden Gods of Art-Rock?
Find out as you join The Panacea Society on their 2006 North American tour.

When asked by one of his students what he would be doing during the Easter break, performance artist André Stitt decided to write a tour diary. This was to be in the form of a daily blog on his web site reporting on his latest visit to the USA with members of the TRACE collective and his band The Panacea Society.

‘Civil Twilight & Other Social Works’ explores the performance artwork of provocative Scots artist Roddy Hunter. Though the artists own texts and archival documentation Hunter introduces us to his methodology of research into the idea of urban civic centres as places where collective identity is formed.

In these works, Hunter spends extended periods of time walking the central squares in cities like Sfântu Gheorghe, Sheffield, Dundee, London, Minsk, Timisoara, Nové Zámky, Barcelona, Belfast, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, and Budapest, encouraging passers-by to engage with him in conversation on issues of civil importance: alienation, architecture, capital, change, culture, heroism, identity, ideology and utopia – all subjects symbolically related to the actual spaces where the performances occur.

The events take place between the hours of sunset and sunrise – that is, during ‘civil twilight’, an astronomical term referring to the time when outdoor activities require artificial illumination.

Civil Twilight & Other Social Works is the latest development in the project and is designed to be its culmination for the present. Documentation of the Civil Twilight works here are contextualised and articulated further through inclusion of antecedent and parallel ‘social works’ by Hunter from 1994-2005 that engage with inter-relating discourses of space, behaviour and ideology.

Roddy Hunter (b. 1970, Glasgow, Scotland) is a recognised artist, organizer, writer and teacher in the field of contemporary, primarily performance, art practice. He is known for contextual and conceptual works concerned mainly with knowledge and ideology in social contexts. He has exhibited for more than fifteen years across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. He is currently Director of Art at Dartington College of Arts in Totnes, England where he also lives and works.

Texts by André Stitt & Shu Yang

Features work produced by Trace arrtists during a month long residency at Beijing New Arts, Dashanzi Art District. Plus documentation of Trace-Dadoa Live Arts collaborative programme featuring emerging contemporary Chinese performance art.

Trace artists
André Stitt
Phil Babot
Lee Hasssall
Paul Hurley

Chinese Artists
Shu Yang
Li Xiaomu
Right-Hander Group
Ma Shang
Bi Xiaobo