OVADA: Oxfordshire Visual Arts Development Agency
OVADA exists to facilitate and promote access to high quality visual arts for all the residents of and visitors to Oxfordshire. We aim to put artists, the development of their practice and its successful promotion to audiences, at the heart of our work by:
• Commissioning innovative new work and encouraging creative risk-taking
• Supporting artists’ to succeed through professional development opportunities
• Exhibiting work in galleries and other off-site locations at a professional standard
• Creating and supporting artists’ networks in the area and beyond
• Encouraging a vibrant arts community in Oxfordshire.
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Performance Evening with Anya Liftig and Tracey Warr
Venue: 14A Osney Lane, Oxford, OX1 1LE
Date: Tuesday 7th February 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Price: Free entry with reserved ticket only
Details: Roves and roams and OVADA present:
An Evening of Performance with live artist Anya Liftig (USA) & arts
theorist Dr Tracey Warr.
Free entry only permitted with ticket reservation. Reserve yours
HERE
OVADA and roves and roams are co-producing an evening of
performance presenting live artist Anya Liftig performing 'Produce/Procreate'.
This event will be one of several as part of Liftig's European tour.
The evening will start with a talk by editor of 'The Artists Body' and 'Live
Art Now' Dr Tracey Warr, who will provide a short critical history of durational
performance and consider its particular resonances now. The event will conclude
with a Q&A session hosted by the curators.
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ANYA LIFTIG
Liftig has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally
including shows at TATE Modern, Art Basel Miami, Performance Space,
and Center for Performance Research.
Liftig’s performance work addresses themes of self-doubt, failure,
animal/human intimacy cultural hybridization, feminism and physical
comedy. Her piece, “The Anxiety of Influence,” was a guerilla
intervention into Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present Retrospective
at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all
day long, locked in a continuous stare for six hours.
TRACEY WARR
Dr Tracey Warr is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Oxford
Brookes University. She was previously Guest Professor at Bauhaus
University, Weimar. She has curated and written about a range of
international artists including James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, London
Fieldworks and Marcus Coates. Her publications include The Artist’s
Body (Phaidon, 2000) and contributions to Panic Attack!: Art in the Punk
Years (Merrell/Barbican, 2007) and Art, Lies and Videotape (Tate, 2002).
She recently curated The Culture of Rowing and Swimming in Oxford as
part of the Inspired by London 2012 Olympics programme which
included a wild swim down the Thames by 60 people and artists’ rowing
workshops. She is currently curating an artists’ residency programme in
a treehouse studio in the Scottish Highlands in collaboration with
London Fieldworks and a river lab project with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
at Modern Art Oxford in summer 2012
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