Adrian Heathfield
Adrian Heathfield is a British writer and curator.
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Overview [edit]
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[1] and the "ethics of the encounter between the spectator and the artwork".[2]
He is the author of a monograph on the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh.[3] He has edited a number of books on live art and was the co-curator of the Live Culture events at Tate Modern, London (2003).[4] He is co-director of a three-year AHRC funded research project, Performance Matters, on the cultural value of performance.[5]
Career [edit]
Heathfield received his PhD from the University of Bristol (1997).[6] He was President of Performance Studies international (2003–07).[7] He is currently Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton, London.[8]
Background [edit]
Heathfield is the son of trade union leader Peter Heathfield (General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers 1984-92) and the feminist activist Betty Heathfield (co-founder of Women Against Pit Closures during the 1984-85 miners’ strike).[9]
Bibliography [edit]
- 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, 2009.
- Live: Art and Performance, editor, London: Tate Publishing and Routledge, 2004.
- Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time, editor, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2000.
- Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance, editor, Bristol: Arnolfini Live, 1997.
References [edit]
- ^ "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's profile at the University of Roehampton.
- ^ "Out of Now: the lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh", MIT Press book profile. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ^ "Live Culture: organisers and participants", Tate Modern website, accessed 30 January 2012.
- ^ "Performance Matters: people", 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's profile at the University of Roehampton.
- ^ "Betty Heathfield", The Guardian, 22 February 2006. Accessed 30 January 2012.
