Member Profile
Name
Theron Schmidt (aka theron)
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About me
Region:
London
Artforms
Performance, Multi Media, Writing/Text, Socially engaged practice.
Occupation
Practising Artist/Practitioner, Full-time Postgraduate Student.
Statement
I am a critical writer and performer based in London. I occasionally develop performance work as a solo artist, and have also collaborated extensively with Chris Goode and Apocryphal Theatre (www.flyingoutofsequence.org). I have also worked with Barbara Campbell, Doran George, Punchdrunk, Rotozaza, Rajni Shah, and Unlimited Theatre.
My work addresses issues of loss and presence. It explores how these states can be performed and articulated, and the idea that performance itself enacts these states. Form and content cohabitate; presence is the performance of itself; loss is compellingly inarticulate.
I am currently pursuing doctoral research into relational aesthetics and theatricality at Queen Mary, University of London. I was also a writer with Writing from Live Art, a Live Art UK initiative, and my critical writing has been published in AN Magazine, Dance Theatre Journal, The Live Art Almanac, and RealTime (Australia).
In both my critical writing and performance, I explore the potential within performance for social intervention. I am a member and former Executive Committee member of Alternate ROOTS (www.alternateroots.org), a southeastern US-based organisation of artists working for social justice.
Companies
Projects
I wrote a report on the events at Live Art Falmouth 08 (http://interface.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/442098), and compiled responses from other writers....
Posted: 9/7/2008 18:18:15
We Need to Talk About Live Art
By Writing From Live Art
We Need to Talk About Live Art
Sparking Debate. Stimulating Conversation. Supporting Artists. Taking Live Art Seriously.
'We Need to Talk about Live Art' was a daily flash publication, by Writing From Live Art writers ...
Posted: 7/4/2008 19:58:29
The Mourner's Dance: web resource on mourning and live art
By Theron Schmidt, Doran George
Online resource which documents artist Doran George's exploration of the relationship between bereavement, arts practice, and social engagement....
Posted: 12/3/2008 10:54:19
Writer in residence at Experimentica, Chapter Arts, Cardiff
By Theron Schmidt/Writing from Live Art
Writing from Live Art
By Live Art UK
Writing From Live Art is a Live Art UK initiative aimed at developing new and accessible critical writing on Live Art....
Posted: 9/8/2007 19:36:58
Events
Besides, you lose your soul or The History of W Civilization
09/03/2008
Category: Performance
Besides, you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilization A performative response to text and direction of Julia Lee Barclay performed and created by apocryphal theatre lab 3pm – Sunday, March 9, 2008 at Camden People’s Theatre, NW1 (ht...
We Need to Talk about Live Art: NRLA
06/02/2008 - 11/02/2008
Category: General
Sparking Debate. Stimulating Conversation. Supporting Artists. Taking Live Art Seriously. 'We Need to Talk about Live Art' is a daily flash publication, by Writing From Live Art writers Tim Atack, Rachel Lois Clapham, Mary Paterson and Theron Schm...
Launch of 'point and place' at London Artists Book Fair
23/11/2007 - 25/11/2007
Category: Launch
'point and place' is a collaborative bookwork by 6 artists/performers: Julie Brixey-Williams, Camilla Brueton, Simon Kennedy, Theron U Schmidt, Rajni Shah, and Caroline Younger. The project addresses questions of space from several disciplines wi...
Conversation Pieces (MA showing at Queen Mary, U. London)
29/03/2007
Category: Performance
FREE at the Boiler Room, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End (directions below) "Conversation Pieces" is an investigation into the memorialising aspects of theatre and performance, and of the intermingling of presence and absence which both...