British writer and curator
Adrian Heathfield is a British writer andcurator.
Heathfield works oncontemporary art practices, particularly those involving live elements such asperformance 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 amonograph on the Taiwanese-American artistTehching Hsieh.[3] He has edited a number of books onlive art and was the co-curator of the Live Culture events atTate Modern, London (2003).[4] He is co-director of a three-yearAHRC funded research project,Performance Matters, on the cultural value of performance.[5]
Heathfield received his PhD from theUniversity of Bristol (1997).[6] He was President of Performance Studies international (2003–07).[7] He is currently Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at theUniversity of Roehampton, London.[8]
Heathfield is the son of trade union leaderPeter Heathfield (General Secretary of theNational Union of Mineworkers 1984–92) and thefeminist activistBetty Heathfield (co-founder ofWomen Against Pit Closures during the1984–85 miners' strike).[9]
- Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History, co-editor withAmelia Jones. Bristol: Intellect and theUniversity of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, London and Cambridge, Massachusetts:Live Art Development Agency andMIT Press, 2009.
- Live: Art and Performance, editor, London:Tate Publishing andRoutledge, 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.
- ^"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'sprofile 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'sprofile at the University of Roehampton.
- ^"Betty Heathfield", The Guardian, 22 February 2006. Accessed 30 January 2012.
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