Adrian Heathfield is a British writer and
curator.
Overview
Heathfield works on
contemporary art practices, particularly those involving live elements such as
performance art,
experimental theatre and dance. His writing has focused on questions of time, memory and the "ethics of the encounter between the spectator and the artwork".
He is the author of a
monograph
A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject.
In library cataloging, ''monograph ...
on the Taiwanese-American artist
Tehching Hsieh. He has edited a number of books on
live art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
and was the co-curator of the Live Culture events at
Tate Modern, London (2003). He is co-director of a three-year
AHRC funded research project
Performance Matters on the cultural value of performance.
Career
Heathfield received his PhD from the
University of Bristol (1997). He was President of Performance Studies international (2003–07). He is currently Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the
University of Roehampton, London.
Background
Heathfield is the son of trade union leader
Peter Heathfield (General Secretary of the
National Union of Mineworkers 1984–92) and the
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...
activist
Betty Heathfield (co-founder of
Women Against Pit Closures during the
1984–85 miners' strike).
"Betty Heathfield"
The Guardian, 22 February 2006. Accessed 30 January 2012.
Bibliography
* Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History, co-editor with Amelia Jones. Bristol: Intellect and the University of Chicago Press, 2012.
* Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, London and Cambridge, Massachusetts: Live Art Development Agency and MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). It was established in 1962.
History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publ ...
, 2009.
* Live: Art and Performance, editor, London: Tate Publishing and Routledge
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, ...
, 2004.
* Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time, editor, London: Black Dog Publishing
Black Dog Publishing was a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photogra ...
, 2000.
* Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance, editor, Bristol: Arnolfini
Arnolfini is an international arts centre and gallery in Bristol, England. It has a programme of contemporary art exhibitions, artist's performance, music and dance events, poetry and book readings, talks, lectures and cinema. There is also a ...
Live, 1997.
References
"On Memory"
Performance Research, edited by Adrian Heathfield and Andrew Quick, 2000. Product description by the Centre for Performance Research. Accessed 31 January 2012.
# Adrian Heathfield'
profile
at the University of Roehampton.
"Out of Now: the lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh"
MIT Press book profile. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
Tate Modern website, accessed 30 January 2012.
Performance Matters Website staff profiles, accessed 30 January 2012.
"Representation and Identity in Contemporary Performance"
citation and abstract, Mendeley reference manager, accessed 30 January 2012.
"Performance Studies international: former presidents & sponsors"
Performance Studies international site, accessed 30 January 2012.
# Adrian Heathfield'
profile
at the University of Roehampton.
"Betty Heathfield"
The Guardian, 22 February 2006. Accessed 30 January 2012.
External links
Adrian Heathfield website
Performance Matters website
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British writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)