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Theron Schmidt
Theron is a writer and performer based in London. His writing focuses on relational aesthetics, theatricality, and the ethics of representation. He was selected for Writing from Live Art (www.liveartuk.org/writingfromliveart), a Live Art UK initiative, and his critical writing has been published in AN Magazine, Dance Theatre Journal, The Live Art Almanac, Platform, Real Time (Australia), and Total Theatre.
Reviews
Book review: Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh [10 March 2009]
The figure convulses violently, his hair lurching this way and that. His body flutters in spasms too quick to be seen, jumping instantaneously across miniscule distances without moving through the space in between. Next to the figure, Read on…
Live Art Development Agency and MIT Press, London
2 March 2009
Live Art Falmouth: 3. The autonomy of ritual [25 June 2008]
Continued from:2. Do animals understand art? http://a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442100Bennett’s text piece suggests art as an autonomous zone, one in which its rituals follow their own rules and which creates its own alternative Read on…
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Live Art Falmouth: 4. The power of the image [25 June 2008]
Continued from:3. The autonomy of ritual: http://a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442101 For some of the work in the festival, it is necessary to experience it evolving and unfolding over time in order to take it in. Others work with the Read on…
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Live Art Falmouth: 5. Interventions in public space [25 June 2008]
Continued from:4. The power of the image: http://a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442102 Not all of the work at the festival takes place within the confines of the hosting university building, and a few works seek to intervene in the daily Read on…
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Live Art Falmouth [25 June 2008]
One of the great things about the category of ‘live art’ is that it isn’t really a category. Rather than being defined by use of materials or specificity of context, it is instead an attitude, a permissiveness, a deliberate Read on…
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Live Art Falmouth: 1. Performance and everyday life [25 June 2008]
(Continued from http://a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442098) Easing my way into the festival, my attention is initially drawn to experiences which are not that dissimilar from everyday life. Some of these, like Alice Kemp’s Read on…
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
Live Art Falmouth: 2. Do animals understand art? [25 June 2008]
Continued from:1. Performance and everyday life: http://a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442099If one strand of work in the festival took its focus to be human interaction, then another wholeheartedly embraced the non-human. This was Read on…
Wellington Terrace, Falmouth
6 - 7 June 2008
100 People and 3 People [6 November 2007]
In addition to his work as artistic director of performance company Forced Entertainment, now in its twenty-third year, Tim Etchells has begun to exhibit visual and gallery-based work over the past few years and will have a novel (The Broken Read on…
The Gallery at Sketch, London
15 September - 3 November 2007
Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde [31 October 2007]
Just off Baker Street with its designer furniture stores and phone boxes filled with sex ads, I find the first exhibition from newly formed Austin Enterprises. Titled ‘Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde’, the exhibition transferred to this Read on…
20 Portman Square and 92 George Street, London
13 October – 11 November
Encounters: Performance, photography, collaboration [book] [25 October 2007]
The book Encounters (Bristol: Arnolfini, 2007; ISBN 978090773842) by photographer Manuel Vason reproduces 162 images created in collaboration with 36 solo artists and artist collaborators working within performance and live art. As Dominic Read on…
Arnolfini, Bristol
8 June 2007
STILL [15 October 2007]
There’s a Viking Line ship which is so large that as it navigates its way through Helsinki harbour, its movement is actually imperceptible. Only by watching it over time can you convince yourself that it is in fact moving. For Read on…
Toynbee Studios, London
9 October 2007
'Grunts for the Arts' Sports Day [27 September 2007]
In March of this year, the UK government announced it would divert £675 million of lottery money from funding for the arts in order to offset the costs of the 2012 Olympic Games. This included an immediate £29 million drop – Read on…
Burgess Park, London
15 September 2007
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