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This issue of Performance Magazine has been reproduced as part of Performance Magazine Online (2017) with the permission of the surviving Editors, Rob La Frenais and Gray Watson. Copyright remains with Performance Magazine and/or the original creators of the work. The project has been produced in association with the Live Art Development Agency. LV.AATAIR ~ Contemporary Music Network THE VIDEO INSTALLATION ArtsCouncil AYAMAGUCHI --- ~ OF CREAT BRITAIN EYLATH SHOW HALL Jan.10-29 AZIMOTH .: HARTNEY HAWLEY ONE John Taylor (piano & organ) KEANE ~ --,-~ I Ken Wheeler (flugelhom & trumpet) KRIKORIAN Norma Winstone (voice) LITTMAN MORI ·- -- - - --, " ... one of the leading chamber ensembles in modern jazz" Wax Paper. SAVAGE SCHUTTER TWO GORDON BECK NONET Gordon Beck (keyboards) Chris Pyne (trombone) Phil Lee (guitar) Frank Ricotti (percussion) AIR gallery 6-8 ROSEBERY AVE ECl _ ____ LVA 01 734 7410 Henry Lowther (trumpet) Chris Lawrence (bass) RayWarleigh (alto) Steve Arguelles (drums) Stan Sulzmann (tenor) in an augmented version of music from the 'Sunbird' album AUDIO ARTS NEW ISSUES Sun 16 LONDON Round House 7.30pm Thu 20 LEICESTER Phoenix Arts 8.00pm Volume 6 Number 1 Fri 21 DARLINGTON Arts Centre 8.00pm Philip Glass, Rhys Chatham, Eric Bogosian, Judy Sat 22 MANCHESTER Royal Northern College of Music 7.30 Rifka, Krishen Khanna, Vivan Sundaram, Tinguely Sun 23 SHEFFIELD Crucible Theatre 7.30pm machines, Denis Masi, Sharon Morris, Mon 24 LEEDS Playhouse 8.00pm Michelangelo Pistoletto and Art School Bands, Wed 26 BRIGHlON, Gardner Centre, Un. of Sussex 7.45pm Supplement Thu 27 BRISTOL Arnolfini Gallery 8.00pm Dennis Oppenhiem, 'The Diamond Cutters Sat 29 KENDAL Brewery Arts Centre 8.30pm Wedding ' Richard Hamilton in conversation with Sun 30 BIRMINGHAM, Strathallan Hotel 8.00pm Michael Compton. Mo1131 COVENTRY, Warwick Un. Arts CentreJ.45pm Afternoon workshop for jazz students at 2.00pm AUDIO ARTS, 6 Briarwood Road, London SW4 9PX Further details from the venues or from the Music Dept., Tel (01) 720 9129 Arts Council of Great Britain, 105 Piccadilly, London W1. (01-629 9495) PAUPER'S TWILIGHT CARNIVAL INTHE THEATRE COURT OF (OMPANY THE SUN A CELEBRATIONFOR MID-WINTER (omrn,wo,11.-dby(l\mit'I Thursday 16th, Friday 1 7th December, 8pm Saturday 18th December, 7pm and 8.30pm Monday 20th December. 8pm Tuesday 21 st, Wednesday 22nd December, 7pm and 8.30pm Tickets £1 .50 (accompanied child: 50p) Membershipnecessary CHAPTER. MARKET ROAD. CANTON. CARDIFF Tel: Cardiff 396061 This issue of Performance Magazine has been reproduced as part of Performance Magazine Online (2017) with the permission of the surviving Editors, Rob La Frenais and Gray Watson. Copyright remains with Performance Magazine and/or the original creators of the work. 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ERFORMANC ___ MAGAZIN~---- The Review of Live Art Performance in the Third Dimension Performance Magazine 14 Peto Place, London NW1 01 935 2714 Editor Rob La Frenais Contributing Editors Lynn MacRitchie Marguerite Maclaughlin Luke Dixon Pete Shelton Administration Mary Lee Woolf Contributors Robert Ayers Paul Burwell Gillian Clark Meira Eliash Catherine Elwes Roger Ely Stella Hall Andrea Hill Neil Hornick Phil Hyde Chrissie lies David lllic Robin Morley Anna Mosynska Andrew O 'Hanlan John Roberts Steve Rogers Diana Simmonds Liz Stolls Guest Contributors Paul Anand David Dawson John Dowie Peter Godfrey R1tional Theatre Chris Millar Helen Powell Double Issue Distribution Profiles Reviews Full Time Distribution Moore Harness Anne Bean 4 The Final Academy 31 J F Ansell Horse and Bamboo 9 Italian Performance 35 Total Distribution (US) Interview Brogue Male 37 Typesetting Psychic lV 14 Laurie Anderson 38 Windhorse Photosetters Witches Fly South 40 Printing Music Vineyard Press, Colchester Philip Glass and Rhys Chatham 18 Performance Platform 42 Publisher Video Willats in Derry 46 Performance Magazine Ltd NY Video 20 Copyright © 1983 LVA Group Show Short Reviews 48 ISSN no 0144 5901 22 Channel 4 and Performance 23 Ellen Fisher, Arnaud Labelle- Special Feature Roujoux, Optik, Sitting Ducks, Performance in the Third 24 Attila The Stockbroker , Eric Dimension: Bogosian, Split Britches , SUBS ID ISE D BY THE Rational Theatre/Malcolm Poynter Michael Upton and Peter Arts OJuncil ABDC Workshop Lloyd-Jones , An Eccentric OF GREAT BRIT AIN Jim Whiting Evening. Cover Photo of Anne Bean by Willy Kiddell . Last issues' cover photo for 'Art on the Run' should have been credited to Ray Ridolfi. We apologise for this. ' This issue of Performance Magazine has been reproduced as part of Performance Magazine Online (2017) with the permission of the surviving Editors, Rob La Frenais and Gray Watson. Copyright remains with Performance Magazine and/or the original creators of the work. The project has been produced in association with the Live Art Development Agency. Profile Anne Bean Sally Boon 4 This issue of Performance Magazine has been reproduced as part of Performance Magazine Online (2017) with the permission of the surviving Editors, Rob La Frenais and Gray Watson. Copyright remains with Performance Magazine and/or the original creators of the work. The project has been produced in association with the Live Art Development Agency. 'Hey water waara to you I spurt A Portentious Event from inside out if only you can can dance inside me. Within Earshot of Oh ratz me fling me, stir me. Shiroop me between your flanks.' Braying Donkeys 20.7.62 Here is Anne Bean, writing on her 12th birthday. This article is about her. She has asked me to write about her and her work knowing very well that I have seen only a few performances, and these some years ago. We have, I'm sure, no secrets from each other and our friendship goes back to first days at art college. From the beginning we had complete freedom with each others minds and it is, I think, with this idea that she has asked me to put into words what I can. 'I feel to be black and part of that undemeathness. The dancing and singing, and banging. They call me - 'SCORCIANA' the dreamer.' (20-7-64). This quotation and the ones following comes from a collection of letters which Anne wrote to herself on her twelfth to twenty-first birthdays. She wrote these letters to be sure that the adult she would become could not be someone quite dif ferent. 'I am writing to you at twenty one because of some idea about you being an adult then. I hope you haven't done any thing to me to make it so.' (20-7-62). It may occasionally surprise a person to discover how rational and approachable Anne is by a broad group of people. Whilst alienating nobody she does not agree with everyone. Her position is fundamentally rational. She is a good listener and her con sciousness genuinely inclusive. She has few obvious mannerisms of thought. Talking to me this afternoon she said that everyone had as many strange and peculiar experiences as each other. I replied in a way I thought best, that, to have some thing to say you have to be prepared to be a little wrong. 'I always remember believing flowers could spontaneously combust. I had a dream where a frog was struck by light ening on a tree, and its skin split open. Its green skin became leaves and its red belly became a flower. The flower grew and its red petals opened wide and when they reached their widest they burst into flame and lightening shot out back heavenwards. I wondered if my belief came from the dream and if the dream came from some shared reservoir and if Within her she's hastening to become sibility of being an anti-hero or mis the shared reservoir came from truth.' lighter and simpler. Using and expending adventurer. Yet it seems that this thought (20-7-65). ideas quickly so that they don't become a should remain unspoken - almost There is about her a consciousness that baggage of the mind and in this way unthought; to keep it simply as a twinge goes deep and stretches knowingly back accrueing an ever increasing vitality in the belly, an undercurrent.. .'(20. 7 .68) into her childhood. Her work reveals an through the alchemy of her work and life. When I met her at Reading it was clear abundance of striking imagery and origin 'I can say to you that my basic goal she was making her own universe. This ality but it's in a sense outside her, where it seems to be to try to be an ethical or must have been true before; in Zambia. belongs. spiritual adventurer, accepting the pos- The paintings she did as a teenager have 5 This issue of Performance Magazine has been reproduced as part of Performance Magazine Online (2017) with the permission of the surviving Editors, Rob La Frenais and Gray Watson. Copyright remains with Performance Magazine and/or the original creators of the work. The project has been produced in association with the Live Art Development Agency. quite a force and maturity. know enough to do anything vital until she eptance is the key to perception. We share 'The squeeze, the ooze, the splash. was old, and that's a greatly serious thing deeply the belief that you must consider There it is. A tantalising little worm of to say. the universe in order to outlive it. There's red. I love painting. Its possibilities lie It's not the oddities of creative original more than an element of this moving to nearer my truth than words.' (20. 7 .65) ity or even opportunistic eclecticism that wards an acceptance of all qualities and She tells me how she swam in the make the world surrounding Anne her roles.