Category Archives: Performance Art

Active Circles in Australia – a rain dance 1982

A piece by the Theatre of Mistakes performed in Australia. “In the long, hot summer of 1977 we did perform it on Hartley Wintney village-green, which has a sizeable cricket-pitch, as a dance to bring down the rain – or … Continue reading

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We Live in a Nuthouse

  Brilliant piece in Hyperallergic.  Click here for this Studs Terkel/Zero Mostel interview posted by Karen Schiff.

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Anthony Howell and his Disenchanted Sow

Anthony Howell and his Disenchanted Sow   They do say never wrestle with a pig, you both get filthy. So, instead, strip naked on a busy Belfast street, assume the crouch of a submissive mate – porcine-cubic, promising – to … Continue reading

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Tango Schumann

Tango has always been a love of mine, and Lindi Kopke and I worked together for a number of years, exploring the notion of dancing tango to classical music. Click on the link below to watch some videos on the … Continue reading

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THE THEATRE OF MISTAKES

Welcome to the blog of The Theatre of Mistakes Several new posts, documenting our recent exhibition and its performances. Plus an update of performance art workshops in Paris 2018.

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THE THEATRE OF MISTAKES at RAVEN ROW

Here are some lovely images from our workshops at Raven Row – Summer 2017. And here is a link to the Blog of The Theatre of Mistakes This blog carries a lot of material about the 1970s company that pioneered … Continue reading

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Anthony Howell talks about The Theatre of Mistakes and later performance art works.

I have just discovered that this talk I gave at Modern Art Oxford, way back, has found its way onto Youtube. However, please click this link for The film of Homage to the Horses  as the film is shown with … Continue reading

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FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, Stuart Sherman and Robert Wilson (1979)

FIVE FIGURE EXERCISE – Harpers & Queen, May 1979 I reckon this is a historic document, so re-publish it here. On a still undefined boundary of modern art painter Sol LeWitt, dancer Lucinda Childs and composer Philip Glass are working … Continue reading

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THE GREY SUIT INITIATIVE

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Grey Suit Issues 1-12 are now online! Thanks to BFI, Elephant Trust, Ikon Gallery and ACE.  We did it! Here is the link to the videos at  Grey Suit Editions Grey Suit Online Grey Suit was…

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THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE ART

Here is a Link to my book The Analysis of Performance Art and here is a link to a performance archive of the 1970s that I am featured on. There is also a site for The Theatre of Mistakes. Glimpses … Continue reading

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