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Adrian Heathfield

Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton, Guest Speaker, London

Adrian Heathfield gave a MACA Contemporaries talk, A Recurrence of Duration, on February 27, 2018.

 
Adrian Heathfield, writes on, curates and creates performance. His books include Out of Now, a monograph on the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh and the edited collections Perform, Repeat, Record, Live: Art and Performance, Small Acts and Shattered Anatomies. He was co-director of Performance Matters, a four-year AHRC funded research project on the cultural value of performance (2009–2013). From 2014-2016 he conducted the three year European Union funded creative research project Curating the Ephemeral on immaterial art and museal practices. He co-curated the Live Culture events at Tate Modern, London (2003) and a number of other performance and durational events in European cities over the last sixteen years. Most recently, he was curator of Taiwan’s exhibition at the Biennale Arte 2017, Venice.

Adrian Heathfield