Cardiff ATRiuM: Famous Performance Artist Mike Pearson in the Zen Room, Friday 20th June 2008 at 6.30pm

The George Ewart Evans Centre and

Cardiff Storytelling Circle

jointly host

NARRATIVE and LANDSCAPE


Friday 20th June 2008 at 6.30pm


A presentation on aspects of

“Carrlands”

The latest research project/artwork by

Prof. Mike Pearson.




Venue:

Zen Room, The ATriuM,

Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries,

Adam St.

Cardiff


Reflections on and illustrations of the creation of three web-based audio works, combining the spoken word, music and effects. These original sound compositions by Pearson, composers John Hardy and Hugh Fowler are inspired by, evoke & guide

walks within the agricultural landscapes of the valley of the River Ancholme in north Lincolnshire, the environment in which Pearson grew up.


Mike Pearson has been, and remains, one of the most significant and influential performance practitioners in Wales over the past thirty years.

As a founding member of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, Brith Gof and Pearson/Brookes, a performer, performance-maker, theorist and academic he has worked worldwide. He has a long history of making solo narrative performances.

Currently Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Aberystwyth, in 2002 he was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.

His publications include In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (2006).

For more information please contact: Ailsa Richardson

Research Assistant
Canolfan Adrodd Storïau George Ewart Evans

George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling
tel +44 (0)1443 668631
e mail storytelling@glam.ac.uk
www.glam.ac.uk/storytelling


Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, CF24 2XF

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Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

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