Preview of performance art at Ovada Warehouse, Oxford (From The Oxford Times)

Preview of performance art at Ovada Warehouse, Oxford

2:30pm Wednesday 1st February 2012 in History / Heritage By Christopher Gray

OVADA (Oxford) and roves and roams (Reading) are co-producing a show of performance art at Ovada Warehouse, 14a Osney Lane, Oxford on Tuesday at 6.30pm.

The evening features live artist Anya Liftig, from the USA, as part of her European tour. Dr Tracey Warr provides a short critical history of durational performance and considers its particular resonances now. The evening will conclude with a Q&A hosted by the curators.

Liftig has performed and exhibited internationally including shows at TATE Modern, Art Basel Miami, Performance Space, and ther Center for Performance Research. Her work addresses themes of self-doubt, failure, animal/human intimacy cultural hybridisation, feminism and comedy. The Anxiety of Influence was her guerilla intervention into Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Liftig dressed as the artist and sat across from her, locked in a continuous stare for six hours.

Dr Tracey Warr is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Oxford Brookes University. She has curated and written about a range of international artists.

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 tree-house studio in the Scottish Highlands and a river lab project with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas at Modern Art Oxford in summer 2012.

There is free entry and bar (really!), with entrance only with a ticket booked at www.anyaliftigevening.

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