Abduction

Includes DVDs, programmes, flyers. In two folders.

Includes: Icing (Oval House, 1978), Circus Lumiere, Abduction (ICA, 1992), Beauty and the Beast (1983), Paradise (ICA, 1989), Panic I, (Camden Music Festival, 1987), Panic II (Gardner Cente Brighton, 1987), Vulture Culture (Brisbane, 1987 and Henley Festival, 1984), Special Forces (Oval House, 1976), Jean Pool (1979) , War Dance (Nottingham Castle, 1989), Deadwood  (Kew Gardnes, 1986), Senseless (ICA, 1983), Brightside (1984), Dinning with Alice (1999 and 2011), Fifty-Five Years of the Swallow and the Butterfly (Penzance, 1990), Glazed (Chapter, 1979),  Giants (Birmingham Arts Lab, 1979),  Entertaining Strangers (Lyric Hammersmith, 1986),  Slips (1981), Son of Circus Lumiere (Edinburgh Festival, 1982), Why is Here There Everywhere Now? (Riverside Studios, 1991), Heart of Ice (The Place, 1987), String of Perils (Albany Empire, 1980), The Appeal (Channel 4, 1982), Tip Top Conditions (1981 and 1988), Dogs (Oval House, 1976)

Documentation of a day of screenings, conversations and presentations which explore, recover and communicate the history of performance art in London and the UK in the 1970s. The day includes a screening of William Raban’s film 72-82 (a history of art and performance at Acme Gallery, London), followed by a panel discussion with William Raban (Professor of Film at London College of Communication), and special guests; a conversation with Hilary Westlake and David Gale (Lumiere & Son); lectures by Naseem Khan, Anne Bean, and Marcia Farquhar; with a keynote by the historian Carolyn Steedman (Emeritus Professor of History, University of Warwick).