Tag Archives: Performance Art

Homage to the Horses of Saint Petersburg 1998

A performance by Anthony Howell in 1998. Homage to the Horses of Saint Petersburg This performance can also be found at vimeo And it can also be found on this page Readings and Performances on my website – which also … Continue reading

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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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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 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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Pictures at an Exhibition – Sketch 1.

A lovely piece of Performance Art by Milica Vukovic relating to a picture by Mark Williams, which was shown in his  exhibition at The Room in May 2015.

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Prison, Pumping Iron and Performance

“It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be.” xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxBertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life. These days, the emphasis of the penal system is on teaching inmates ‘functional skills’, abilities which are supposed … Continue reading

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THE GREY SUIT INITIATIVE

The brilliant Grey Suit Issues 1-12 are now online! These are hour-long videos featuring poets, musicians, performance artists and film-makers. They were created in the 90s and are an essential record to live art and poetry in that era. Thanks … Continue reading

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