Lectures and Seminars

2015

Co-speaker, with Nigel Rolfe, on ‘Early Days of Performance Art in Ireland’, at IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.

Co-speaker, with Aine Phillips, on ‘Performance, Collaboration and Photography: Acts of Exchange’, at Tate Modern, London, England.

Co-speaker on ‘Performance and Re-Performance’, as part of BIFPA 15, Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, c/o University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Talk series, ‘In Conversation’, with Mary McIntyre, head of MFA programme, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Lecture/talk, on own art practice, Galleri Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway.

2014

Panel member/speaker for Ulster University ‘Drawing Symposium’, c/o Mac Lab., Belfast, N.Ireland.

Lecture, own art practice, for ‘Talking Heads’, MFA lecture  series, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England.

Artist ‘Talk’ for Conflict Studies Program, Woodbury University, L.A., California, USA.

Lecture, own art practice, for Rapid Pulse International, at Society for Arts Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Lecture, own art practice, Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, Indonesia.

Speaker on ‘Long and Short of Durational Performance’, Imagination Room, Central Library, Singapore.

Artist’s talk on own art practice, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, N.Ireland.

2013

Lecture to MFA students, on professional art practice, at University of Ulster, Belfast.

Showing ( and discussing ) the ‘Alchemist’ video, involving Richard and Bridie Ashrowan, Sandra Johnston and Alastair MacLennan, at Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland.

Lecture on own art practice, at Book Cafe ( A Hidden Town ) Warsaw, Poland.

Lecture on own art practice, at Mocak ( Museum of Contemporary Art ) Krakow, Poland, for International Art Festival, Interakcje, 15th Anniversary Edition.

Talk on ‘Actuations’, at Cultural Centre of European University, Nicosia, Cyprus, as part of Cipaf ( Cyprus International Performance Art Festival ).

Showing of ‘Alchemist’ video, in Cultural Centre of European University, Nicosia, Cyprus, as part of Cipaf ( Cyprus International Performance Art Festival ).

Participation in round-table discussion on ‘Ethical Task of the Performance Artist’, in Cultural Centre of European University, Nicosia, Cyprus, as part of Cipaf ( Cyprus International Performance Art Festival ).

Contributer to panel discussion, on context of earliest days of performance art in Belfast, N. Ireland, c/o Pollen Gallery, Queen Street, Belfast, N. Ireland.

Talk on Belfast’s Bbeyond performance art monthlies, at Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada.

2012

‘Performance Art’, lecture at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

‘Performance Art’, lecture/performance at Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu, China.

‘Performance Art’, lecture at Eurasia University, Xi’an, China.

‘Performance Art’, lecture at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

‘Performance Art’, lecture c/o Zespol Szkol Plastycznych im Cypriana Kamila Norwida, Lublin, Poland.

‘Performance Art’ lecture, for La-Bas-concept of performance, 2nd Biennale of Live Art in Finland, c/o Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland.

‘Performance Art’, lecture, for Present ( 6 days of performance art and video ), involving Black Market International, c/o the Naughton Gallery, Queens University, Belfast, N.Ireland.

2011

‘Tut  But’, lecture on own art, for New Territories, Tipa (this is performance art), at Ramshorn Festival Club, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

‘Spectral  Arc: Vanishing Point’, lecture/seminar by A.MacLennan and A. Stitt, c/o St. Paul Street Gallery, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand.

For ‘Triple  A  A  A’ : Lecture/seminar on Black Market International’s performance art…and Bbeyond’s performance art, at Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

For ‘Triple  A  A  A’: Lecture/seminar on own art practice, at Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Lecture/seminar on own art practice, for MFA course, University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland.

2010

‘Why performance?’ Artist’s talk for Present Response, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

‘Teaching and learning Performance Art’. Speaker at symposium, hosted by Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada.

‘Performance Art’, lecture by Sandra Johnston and Alastair MacLennan, University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK.

‘Right Here Right Now’. Speaker at Symposium on Current Thinking in Live Performance from the Visual Arts, hosted by Gradcam, St. John’s Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland

Lecture on own art practice, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland.

‘Ash She He’, lecture on own art practice, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China.

‘B 2 b’, palatine lecture: Calculating Risk: Assessment, Ethics and Risk Assessment in Durational and Site-Based Performance Work with/by Students ( delivered at Plymouth University, Plymouth, England, UK).

‘The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow’. Panel member on live art symposium, session 1, dealing with Lineages, Memories, Legacies ( held at Brew House, Royal William Yard, Plymouth, England, UK).

‘Performance Art: What is it good for?’ Panel member discussing the multidisciplinary scope of performance art and it’s relevance to the development of criticality and creativity in the classroom. (Held at the National Institute of Education, Singapore).

‘Collective Performances’. Panel member discussing these, at the Auditorium, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.

Presentation of (own) performance research to PALA, Performance Art Laboratory, at Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia.

‘Crossings’. Speaker at round-table discussion on the Crossings project, curated by Christine Conley, c/o the Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.

Panel member discussing performance art, for Perfolink Alumni, International Festival of Performance Art, at University of Concepcion Faculty of Arts, Concepcion, Chile.

2009

Lecture on own art practice,–Lives and Living(s) in Performance Symposium,–supported by New Moves International, for New Territories, the Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Presentation for Lives and Living(s) in Performance Symposium,–Into the New,–supported by New Moves International, for New Territories, the Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

‘Serve Verse’, lecture on own art practice,–Borderline (in search of a new model) Conference,–Casa Artelor, Timisoara, Romania.

‘Serve Verse’, lecture on own art practice,–Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico.

‘Time Doesn’t Exist’, public discussion with Elia Espinoza, Kurt Johannessen and Elvira Santamaria–, Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico.

Lecture on own art practice (2007–2009),–Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland.

‘If to Drift’, public discussion on performance residency (Maine) and performance (Boston), –Mobius Arts, Boston, USA.

Speaker for roundtable discussion on–Audience Participation: Democracy or Autocracy?,– during Fix ’09, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N. Ireland, UK.

Lecture on own art practice, School of Arts, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, England, UK.

Lecture on (own) exhibition of drawings (1976-88), Reg Vardy Gallery, School of Arts, Design and Media, University of Sunderland, England, UK.

Panel member for seminar discussion on–What Makes a Good Performance in a Globalized, Peripheral, Post-Traumatic Context?,–for Aiming,–Polish/Irish Performance Art Festival, Queens University, Belfast, N.Ireland, UK.

Video interview, re– The Belfast/Sarajevo Initiative for the Creative and Performing Arts: An Exchange Between Queens University, Belfast and the Academy of Performing Arts, Sarajevo.

2008

Lecture on own artwork, for Performance Art Laboratory Project, (PALA), at Tejakula, Bali

Speaker on SPACES OF CRITICAL EXPERIENCE seminar, Dunlaoghaire College of Art, Ireland

Lecture/seminar on ‘Lure in Rule’, for HOLY HIATUS, Small World Theatre, Cardigan, Wales, UK

Speaker on Artists Talks, for MOMENTUM 3, at Bains::Connective, Brussels, Belgium

Speaker ‘On Immer Tic’, for COMMUNICATION SUITE discussion, at Wolfson Medical School, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Speaker on ‘Raits Stair’ for OUT OF SITE, Dublin, Ireland

2007

‘Gale Lip Pillage’, lecture for Black Market International, for New Territories (International Festival of Live Arts), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Lecture on Archives for Interface, University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland

Dual Presentation with Irit Rogoff for Dialogues (The Frequently Asked), at Tanzquartier, Halle G, Vienna, Austria

2006

Co-runner of Winter School Performance Art Workshop, National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

Lecture ‘In Place of Passing’ at 14th International Performance Art Conference, at NHA So I, Nguyen Viet Xuan St., Da Lat, Vietnam

Lecture on Performance Art, at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

Panel Member, Beuys’ Legacy: ‘Unity in Diversity’, a symposium to mark the 20th Anniversary of Joseph Beuys’ death, Goethe-Institute, Dublin, Ireland.

2005

Rain Rein Reign lecture for Body Parts, 5 day performance art festival, initiated by the Society of Scottish Artists, The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.

NIPAF ’05 Artist Talks; Shinjuku, Tokyo; Nishiharu, Nishiharu Culture & Labour Hall, Aichi; Citizen International Exchange Plaza, Nagano, Japan.

Rain, Rein, Reign Lecture in Department of Art & Cultures, University of Newcastle, England.

Rain, Rein, Reign Lecture at performance art conference, EPI Zentrum Berlin, European Performance Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Rain, Rein, Reign Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA.

Joint lecture at 1st International Performance Art Congress, Port Valparaiso Auditorium, Valparaiso, Chile.

2004

Lecture on own work, Dept. of Performing Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge, England

2003

Lecture on own work, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

24 hour Non-Stop Performance Workshop, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Presentation, Academic Conference on Performance Art, Centro Nacional de las Artes Metro General Anaya, Mexico City

Presentation, Academic Conference on Performance Art, Universitario de Ciencias y Artes Unam, Ciudad Universitaria Metro Copilco, Mexico City

Black Market International, Tutorials with Artists, Casa del Tiempo, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City

Panel Member, ‘Performance and Activism’, Live Culture: Performance and the Contemporary, Tate Modern, London, England

2002

Panel member, ‘Discussion on Censorship and Paul McCarthy’s Work’, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland

Text Presentation, ‘Performance and Photography’ panel, 10th Performance Art Conference, Galerie 68elf, Cologne, Germany

Lecture/seminar on own work, Brighton University, Brighton, England

Lecture/seminar on own work, Burren College of Art, Galway, Ireland

Lecture/seminar on own work, Limerick College of Art, Limerick, Ireland

Lecture/seminar on own work to inmates, Maghaberry Prison, Belfast, N. Ireland

Panel member, ‘Visual Art in the City’ and ‘Performance: Context, Audience, Documentation’, Intermedia 2002, Cork, Ireland

Lecture/seminar on own work, ‘State of Breath’ performance art series, St Norbert’s Art Centre, St Norbert, Manitoba, Canada

Black Market International seminar for University of Quebec College of Art, in Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada

2001

Lecture on own work, MFA programme, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

‘Performance Art in Britain and Ireland’, Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Rome, Italy.

‘Naught Taut’, Master Class given during Art Trail, Cork, Ireland

2000

‘Rain Rein Reign’, Performance Slide Talk on Art in Time-based Department, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, Wales

‘Rain Rein Reign’, Performance Slide Talk on Art, c/o New Art Gallery, Walsall, England

Seminar on ‘In Memoriam’ Exhibition, c/o New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
‘Rain Rein Reign’, Performance Slide Talk on Art for Artrail, Cork, Ireland

‘Rain Rein Reign’, Performance/Lecture for Conference in Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Edinburgh College of Art on ‘Vicissitudes’

1999

Member of Panel discussion on ‘What makes an important Work of Art’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Lecture for ‘Agendas Agendas Agendas’, Graduate and Research Fine Art Programme, Wimbledon College of Art, London, England

1998

Performance Art Workshop (5 days), at Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria

Speaker at ‘Streetworks’, Performance Art Symposium, c/o Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Lecture (Art Strategies) to Prisoners at Maze/Long Kesh Prison, Northern Ireland

1997

Speaker at the ‘The Nomads’ Symposium, at Hull Truck Theatre, 10th October, for Rootless ’97, International Festival of Live and Time-Based Art, Hull, England

1996

‘Dole Lode III’ – Performance/Lecture for ‘Transmutations’ International Festival of Live Art for Zap Art Limited, Brighton, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Video/Multi-Media/Performance Studio, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Technical University at Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Guest Lecturer, ‘Fix ’96’, Catalyst Arts, 5 Exchange Place, Belfast

Guest Lecturer, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Cornish School of Art, Seattle, Washington, USA

Guest Lecturer, ‘Tain Stain’ Lecture, for the opening of ‘Crossing Boundaries’ at Knutt Hall, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Reykjavik School of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland

1995

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Performance Art Department, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Liberal Arts Department, School of Art Institute, Chicago, USA

1994

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Plymouth School of Arts, Plymouth, England

Guest Lecturer, Penzance Arts Club, Penzance, Cornwall, England

1993

Panel Member ‘Random Access’ Conference, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Panel Member, ‘Education into Practice’, Orpheus Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Fine Art Department, Manchester Polytechnic

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Crawford Municipal College of Art, Cork, Ireland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Middlesex Polytechnic Fine Art Department

Conference/Discussion on the ‘Intermediary’ in Art, at Das Grosse Fest 2, Hellerau Festival House, Dresden, Germany

Discussion on ‘Performance Art’ at Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Panel Member, ‘Points of Contact’ Conference, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Wales

1992

‘Postmodernism and Deconstructivism’, Lecture at Fine Art Department, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Winchester College of Art, MA Course, Winchester, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Winchester College of Art, MA Course, Barcelona, Spain

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Technology, Dundee, Scotland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Chelsea School of Art, London, England

Seminar on ‘Sounding the Depths’ by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

1991

‘Border Crossings’, Lecture given at ‘Whose Nation, Whose Theatre’ Conference at Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland

Guest Lecturer on ‘Knot Naught’ Installation in Manta at Cuneo College of Art, Cuneo, Italy

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Theatre College, Berne, Switzerland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland

Guest Lecturer, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Panel Member, New Contemporaries ‘New Art and Artists’:

1. ‘Five Perspectives’ at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

2. ‘New Contemporaries Conference’, Dean Clough Industrial Park, Halifax, W Yorkshire, England

Lecture given at ‘New Irish Realities’ Conference at Moray House College, Edinburgh, Scotland

‘Available Resources’ discussion through the Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

1990

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, England (Sculpture Dept)

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Chelsea School of Art, London, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Sheffield Polytechnic (Sculpture Dept), Sheffield, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Slade School of Art, London, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, England (Painting Dept)

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (MA Fine Art Course)

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

1989

Lecture Series on Contemporary Irish Art:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC, USA

The ICA Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

The Artists Talk on Art Series, New York, USA

1988

‘The Seventh Rod’ – lecture on own work, part of the ‘Is No’ Exhibition at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

‘No Holds Barred’ – Lecture on own performance-based work at Live Art Course at AIR Gallery, London, England

Guest Lecturer, AIR Gallery – discussion on Performance and Metaphysics

Guest Lecturer AIR Gallery – discussion on Performance and Politics

1987

Guest Lecturer, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada

1986

Guest Lecturer, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England

Guest Lecturer, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Trent Polytechnic, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Nova Scotia College of Art, Canada

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Hull College of Higher Education, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Cork Municipal College of Art, Ireland

1985

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Kingston Polytechnic, London, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, New York School of Visual Arts, NY, USA

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Canterbury College of Art, Canterbury, England

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Liverpool College of Art, Liverpool, England

Guest Lecturer, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Speaker on ‘Performance Art Now’ panel discussion organised by CAN ’85 in the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland

1983-84

Lecture on ‘Art and Performance’ at EVA (Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art), Limerick, Ireland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Newport College of Art, Wales

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Birmingham Polytechnic, Birmingham, England

Organised the Lucy Lippard Lecture ‘Fear and Trembling’, Ulster Poltechnic Belfast

1980

‘Shifting Stages’ – Joint paper/performance (with Roy Johnston) at the International Symposium for the Teaching of Art at Advanced Level, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada