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 Lucy Cash, Nicola Conibere, 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, RealTime (Australia), and Total Theatre.
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
10 Performances
By Roehampton University / Beyond Text
10 Performances is a text-based performance project exploring the nature of performative writing and its relation to the staged event of performance. Five established international artists and five UK-based postgraduate artists will contribute one wr...
Posted: 28/11/2009 16:50:50
SPILL: OverSpill
By Open Dialogues
Spill: Overspill is a tailor-made critical writing programme, designed by Open Dialogues and produced in association with Pacitti Company. The programme is located at the heart of the Spill festival and explores the event of criticism in relation to ...
Posted: 11/4/2009 9:31:10
Open Dialogues: Performance Saga
By Open Dialogues
Open Dialogues: Performance Saga is a responsive writing project created for the "Performance Saga – BONE 11 Fesitval" in Bern, Switzerland, 3 - 6 December 2008....
Posted: 28/11/2008 10:38:55
I wrote a report on the events at Live Art Falmouth 08 (http://www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions/LAF_Theron_Schmidt.htm), and compiled responses from other writ...
Posted: 1/4/2009 14:46:52
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 18:58:29
Events
this text bears false witness
26/11/2009
Category: Performance
Part of 10 Performances, a day-long event exploring performative writing. "This text bears false witness. These words wander through your mind as if they are really there. They linger with you, breathe with you, laugh with you, work with you to wi...
Count One: performance at The Place
28/01/2009
Category: Performance
Count One starts from the exchange of performance to layer systems of meaning from our everyday worlds, creating a work of simple acts and encounters. Performance directed by Nicola Conibere, created and performed by Taylan Halici, Helka Kaski, F...
Before You Go - domestic space performance in Ashford
13/12/2008 - 14/12/2008
Category: Performance
Before You Go -- a performance for an audience of eight in a domestic space in Ashford, as part of the Threshold festival. We began with a photograph of a place that nobody knew. We set out with some characters that got lost along the way. We fo...
The Beckoning and the Escapades
24/09/2008
Category: Performance
Ingredients for a spectacle. Performance with Taylan Halici directed by Nicola Conibere part of Laban MA Dance Theatre...
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...