Non Fiction
Category: Art and Photography, Non Fiction
Number of pages: 167
ISBN: 9781854114082
Publication date: April 6, 2006
Price: £12.99
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André Stitt is one of the foremost practitioners of performance art in the UK. His gallery in Cardiff, Trace, hosts a regular programme focussing on contemporary fine art performance, video, installation and interactive, interdisciplinary activity. In the first five years of its existence, the gallery produced 40 installations/ performances and presented 36 artists in external projects and exchanges (80 artists in total). In addition to being a space itself, Trace is also an initiator of projects in other locations and with artists’ organisations which are, as yet, not as developed in the field.
This book documents the first five years of the Trace programme (which features an artist every month) and contextualises it in the wider practice of time based art, a growing artform which is concerned with human, rather than community politics. In addition to placing Trace firmly in this field, the book fills a gap, in that there are no publications about time based art in Wales, and very little generally (as opposed to ‘catalogues’ about individual artists).
Andre Stitt
André Stitt, born in Belfast, currently lives in Wales following some time in London from 1980-1999. He is currently Professor of Performance & Interdisciplinary Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Chair of CFAR, a fellow of the Royal Society of Art and the Higher Education Academy. Stitt is one of the foremost practitioners of performance art in the UK. Stitt set up Trace, the only gallery in Britain devoted solely to time based art, in his living room in Cardiff in 2000. Trace hosts a regular programme focusing on contemporary fine art performance, video, installation and interactive, interdisciplinary activity. In the first five years of its existence, Trace produced forty installations/performances and presented thirty-six artists in external projects and exchanges. Trace has also initiated similar projects in other locations. Trace (2006) is also a lavishly illustrated book that documents the first five years of the Trace programme.
