roves and roams and OVADA present

An Evening of Performance Art with Anya Liftig & Tracey Warr

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Free Bar
More information at: www.rovesandroams.com and www.ovada.org.uk

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OVADA (Oxford) and roves and roams (Reading) are co-producing an evening of performance presenting live artist Anya Liftig (USA) as part of her European tour.  Dr Tracey Warr provides a short critical history of durational performance and considers its particular resonances now.  The evening will conclude with a Q&A hosted by the curators.

ANYA LIFTIG 

Liftig has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally including shows at TATE Modern, Art Basel Miami, Performance Space, and Center for Performance Research.  Liftig’s performance work addresses themes of self-doubt, failure, animal/human intimacy cultural hybridization, feminism and physical comedy.  Her piece, “The Anxiety of Influence,” was a guerilla intervention into Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present Retrospective at MOMA.  Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day long, locked in a continuous stare for six hours. 

DR TRACEY WARR

Dr Tracey Warr is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Oxford Brookes University.  She was previously Guest Professor at Bauhaus University, Weimar.  She has curated and written about a range of international artists including James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, London Fieldworks and Marcus Coates.  Her publications include The Artist’s Body (Phaidon, 2000) and contributions to Panic Attack!: Art in the Punk Years (Merrell/Barbican, 2007) and Art, Lies and Videotape (Tate, 2002).  She recently curated The Culture of Rowing and Swimming in Oxford as part of the Inspired by London 2012 Olympics programme which included a wild swim down the Thames by 60 people and artists’ rowing workshops.  She is currently curating an artists’ residency programme in a tree-house studio in the Scottish Highlands in collaboration with London Fieldworks and a river lab project with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas at Modern Art Oxford in summer 2012.