Live Archives

I’ve come to the Live Archives workshop from Bristol, where I work as a researcher in the university’s drama department on a project to digitise the National Review of Live Art video archive. Before that I did a PhD in American literature and culture at King’s College London. I also volunteer at the Cube Microplex, and play in its in-house improvising group, Orchestra Cube.

Convivencia: A one-day symposium on existing and potential relationships between documentation and live art practices Saturday the 3rd of February 2007 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Convivencia – a tense but productive co-existence (More...)

The Dialogic Evidence project aimed to explore the possibility of a productive co-existence between performance and documentation practices. An article on this project in the online Body, Space and Technology Journal is now available here. This 10-month project (mid September 2006 through mid July 2007) was directed by Dr Paul Stapleton and supported by a Small Grant in The Creative and Performing Arts from The Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). (More...)

Convivencia: A one-day symposium on existing and potential relationships between documentation and live art practices Saturday the 3rd of February 2007 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Presenters: Robin Feeny, Concordia University, Canada Dr. Simon Ellis, University of Northampton Michael Mayhew, Honorary Associate Artist, National Review of Live Art Prof. Susan Melrose, Middlesex University Dr. Fiona Wright, Independent Artist/Researcher, Newcastle Jon Aveyard, University of Central Lancashire (More...)

An event by Michael Mayhew (and others) that took place at Preston Rail Station as part of the Convivencia Symposium.

A performance lecture by Michael Mayhew presented at the Convivencia Symposium.

Dr Paul Stapleton is an artist/researcher born in Long Beach (California) currently based in Belfast (Ireland), and employed (from 1st August 2007) as a research fellow at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. He is also a founding member and co-director of the England-based performance group theybreakinpieces. (More...)