23rd June 2026 from 10:30-12 (BST), online on Microsoft Teams
Tim Etchells and Adrian Heathfield discuss slow time and the nature and practice of durational performance. What forms, methodologies and performative strategies might emerge from an engagement with long duration, and how is our experience of time shifted by it? Adrian Heathfield draws upon his knowledge and research of live art performance, and particularly his long association with Taiwanese American artist Tehching Hsieh, whose series of year-long performances he helped curate as part of exhibitions at the Venice Biennale and the Dia Art Foundation, New York. Tim Etchells shares his long exploration of durational work with Forced Entertainment Theatre Company, including their 24-hour performances of ‘Quizoola’ (1996) and ‘Who Can Sing A Song to Unfrighten Me?’ (1999). which will close the series.