On Ian Breakwell: an interview by Phil Owen from the Arnolfini programme team with Professor Heike Roms, in which they discuss Ian Breakwell’s work, his importance in the UK art scene, and his relationship to Bristol’.
Heike Roms is Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of Exeter.
Her research is interested in the history and historiography of 1960s and 1970s performance art, especially in the context of the UK, and she has published widely on the archiving and documentation of performance, performance art education, children as performers in avant-garde art and on performance as a form of knowledge formation. Her publications include: Thinking Through Theatre and Performance (co-edited with Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear and Joe Kelleher, 2019), Silent Explosion (2015), and Contesting Performance - Global Sites of Research (co-edited with Jon McKenzie and C.J.W.-L. Wee, 2010). She is currently working on a book with the working title When Yoko Ono Did Not Come to Wales: Locating the Early History of Performance Art.
