Performance Art : AKSHUNS 1976-2013.
Over 400 unique performance art Akshuns presented in autonomous regions, artists initiatives, institutional spaces, museums, galleries, clubs and sites specific throughout the world.
AKSHUN Archive : Residues and Partial Objects
Performance Art : live work 1976-present
Museums, Galleries, Projects, Alternative & artist run spaces, Streets, and Sites Specific.
1976 Art Is Not A Mirror, City Centre, Belfast
Ask/Reply, City Centre, Belfast
1977 Boring, City Centre, Belfast & Foundation Dept., Ulster Polytechnic
I.D., Belfast College of Art
Metamorphosis-9, Belfast College of Art
Art Performance, Queens University, Belfast
1978 Just Going Round and Round, City Centre, Belfast
Sound & Vision, office block, City Centre, Belfast
Arrow, City Centre, Belfast
Surveillance :Looking For A Sign, City Centre, Belfast
Art Is Not A Mirror, It’s A Fucking Hammer, City Centre, Belfast
To Kill A Mockingbird, Belfast College of Art
Fuse Matrix, City Centre, Belfast
Body Piece, City Centre, Belfast
1979 The Bun In Granny’s Greenhouse, Belfast College of Art
Snow Matrix, The Mansion, Dunmurry, N. Ireland
R-R-R-Rip, bomb site, Hill St., City Centre, Belfast
Hangin’ Around, Belfast College of Art
The Exhibition Exhibitionists, [w/Anita McCullough]
Belfast College of Art
The Hopeless Roman, The Mansion, Dunmurry
In Transit #1, Belfast College of Art
In Transit #2, The Mansion, Dunmurry
In Transit #3, Blaenau Festiniog, Wales
In Transit #4, Portsmouth
[Notes] In Transit, Belfast College of Art
Me & My Friend The Cat, The Mansion, Dunmurry
Slug Troops, The Mansion, Dunmurry
Headstones, Belfast College of Art
Love Always Fails, City Centre, Belfast
Pincers, Belfast College of Art
Piano Piece, The Church, Donegal Pass, Belfast
A.K.A. F/ART, [w/Brian Cunningham] Irish Exhibition of Living art, Bank of Ireland, Dublin
Die Dog Or Shite The License, Belfast College of Art
Too Much Red Tape, Ciity Centre, Belfast
Heretic, City Centre, Belfast
Tableaux, The Church, Belfast
Tattoo, Venus Tattoo Parlour, Belfast
Bomb Scare, City Centre, Belfast
Akshun Man, City Centre, Belfast
Band Stand, Ormeau park, Belfast
Listen, The Church, Belfast
1980 Scars, the Church, Belfast
Beyond Any Recognition, Belfast College of Art
Sandwich Board, City Centre, Belfast
Bleat [Dis-Ease], The Church, Belfast
Heyoka Akshuns, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Restrictions, [w/Tara Babel] Belfast College of Art
Ghost Dance, The Church, Belfast
Invitation, The Church, Belfast
Body Piece#2, Derlett St., Belfast
Censored, City Centre, Belfast
Heyoka Subway Akshuns, Events Week, Coventry
Trickster Akshuns, Portsmouth College of Art
Unarmed/Armed, Derlett St., Belfast
Notes to Ye[Singular], Belfast College of art
Swim, Belfast Lough
Bury The Hatchet, Whiteabbey, N. Ireland
Notes To Ye[Plural : The Electrician], [w/Tara Babel], City Centre, Belfast
Soldier, Art & Research Exchange, Belfast
Trickster/Warrior, The Church, Belfast
Abattoir, Derlett St., Belfast
Hoof Grafts, [w/Tara Babel] Derlett St., Belfast
Exiles, Nomads & Vigilanties, Art & Research Exchange, Belfast
Let the People Rot, Islington Town Hall, London
Strange Personal History…Is Right!, Anti-Nuclear Demonstration,
Hyde Park, London
Body piece#3/Camouflage, Various Locations, London
Targets, Various locations, London
Camouflage Sabotage, Hornsey College of Art, London
1981 Bootsies Boots, Seymour Hill, N. Ireland
Nineteen Fifty Eight, Seymour Hill
Anger, [w/Tara Babel], Exiles Studio, London
Consumers Guide, [w/Tara Babel] Cabaret Futura, London
Hare Today, Exiles Studio, London
Duck Patrol, [w/Tara Babel] Central London
Sensory Deprivation, Exiles Studio, London
Presentation, Leeds Leisurewear, Leeds Polytechnic
The Larynx, Basement Group, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Hey Brujo, [w/Tara babel] Epping Forrest, Essex
Dogs In Heat, London Film Co-op
Dogz/Duck Patrol, [w/Tara babel], Moonlight Club, London
The Hebephrenic, Finsbury Park Carnival, London
The Hebephrenic, Exiles Studio, London
Food Fer Thought, [w/Tara Babel] Mega Event, Chats Palace, London
Hebe Fire In Head, [w/Tara Babel] Exiles Studio, London
1982 Food Fer Thought/The Hebephrenic [w/Tara Babel] NOW Festival,
Crescent Centre, Belfast
Food Fer Thought/The Hebephrenic [w/Tara Babel] Orchard Gallery, Londonderry
V.A.L.I.S. Exiles Studio, London
Hebe Garage Akshuns, Various locations, London
Casting Runes, Exiles Studio, London
The Shadow [Metis-Anima] Exiles studio, London
Little Religions, Middlesex Polytechnic, London
Blood Brother/Blood Sister [w/Tara Babel], Exiles Studio London
Six DegreeMaximum Headroom [ w/Eden Diebel, BMUS & Tara Babel] Waterloo Gallery, London
Opium Eater[Dragon] Exiles Studio, London
The Shadow[Ideos-Anima] Exiles Studio, London
Head Hunter, New Forrest, Hampshire, England
Psychometric Recordings, New forrest
Terra Rituals, Exiles Studio, London
Fax & Fikshunz[fact or Fiction?] Middlesex Polytechnic, London
Terra Incognito, 3rd National review of Live art, Nottingham
Terra Inc.,[w/Tara Babel] Zen Abattoir Event, Idiot Ballroom, London
Terra Inc.,[w/Tara babel] Zen Abattoir Event,
London Musicians Collective
1983 Reportage, Visa Video Event, New Regent Club, Brighton
Listen To Me, Expanded Media Show, Sheffield
Dirt Agent Benefactor, The Slammer, London
Quarter Blues Blues, Whittington Hospital, London
Terra Inc.,[w/Tara babel], Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Conspiracy [kon-spir-a-si], Live Irish Art, Franklin Furnace, New York
Brooklyn Bridge Akshuns, New York
Concrete[‘os], [w/Tara Babel] Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
March Fuckers March, Conciel General, Geneva, Switzerland
The Tourist, West End, London
Tourism[Remote Viewing], A Morality Event, Ealing College, London
Kincora[Violations By Gods Bankers], [w/Paul Bowen]
Air Gallery, London
1984 Kincora [Violations By Gods Bankers], [w/Paul Bowen ]
London Film Co-op
3rd Degree Murder, [w/Tara Babel] Drayton Park Dome, London
Tourism, [w/Tara Babel] Perfo-2 Festival, Rotterdam
Apt-8, Data Cell & Canada house, London
Proceedings, Air Gallery, London
Kincora [Violations By Gods Bankers], [w/Paul Bowen],
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Love Crimes, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Project Centre, Dublin
Fragment-4, Exiles Studio, London
Fragment-4, [w/Paul mackay & sean Fitzgerald], The Fridge, london
The Geek Underground, [w/Paul Mackay & Daniel Wihler]
Covent Garden & London Underground
The Geek [w/Paul Mackay & Daniel Wihler] the Clinker Club, London
Tourizm #2, [w/Tara Babel] Zap Club, Brighton
1985 Short People, Central London
Peep Show, Soho, London
Hot Dog…You Bet!, [w/Paul Mackay & Christine Pinturault]
Exiles Studio, London
Hot Dog, [w/Paul Mackay, Christine Pinturault & Fiona Pang & others] NE London Polytechnic
Hot Dog, [w/Paul Mackay, Christine Pinturault, Fiona Pang & others] London School of Economics
Satellites, Exiles Studio, London
Wino Man, various locations, London
Paradise Passage, When the Shit Hits the Fan, Whitechapel, London
Love Crimes [pts8-11], London Film Co-op Summer Show
Glamour & The Geek,[w/Tara Babel & Christine Pinturault]
October Gallery, London
Financial Times, London Underground
1986 Night thoughts, Pitt St. Studios, Sheffield
Tory Cowboys, Wimbledon Civic Hall, London
Fugue State Akshuns, Exiles studio, London
S.O.B. Peeping, Contemporary Arts Fair, London
Interiors [We Take The B Out Of Banal], [w/Tara Babel]
Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
Disco Daze, Hollywood East, Bern, Switzerland
Touch Me [I Want Your Body], Streets Alive, Sheffield
Fugue States [1-4]
Fugue States [5-8], Live Art Now, Zap Club, Brighton
Fugue States [9-12], 5th Street Theatre, Austin, Texas
Houston Is Hot Tonite, The Orange Show Foundation, Houston, Texas
Fugue States [13-16], Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Finger Lickin’ Good, Kentucky Fried Chicken, various locations,Texas
Geek Feast, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California
1987 No Pope Here On The Freeway[AKA Manhunt West] EDGE,
Air Gallery, London
Mysteries#1, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Milton Keynes, England
Night Thoughts, Laing art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyn, England
Mysteries#2, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England
Night Thoughts, Theatre In The Mill, Bradford, England
Night Thoughts, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England
Mysteries#3, Darlington Art gallery, Darlington, England
Aquarium, Aniki Bobo, Alternativa-4, Oporto, Portugal
Sharks Teeth, Town Centre, Aveiro, Portugal
Changing Strangers, Jardim da Delicias, Galeria Maria Isabel,
Aveiro, Portugal
1988 Ask Mother, [w/Shaun Caton] Exiles Studio, London
The Last Supper & The Dry Dive, Intervention-4, Cafe de la Danse, Paris
Covert Activities[AKA Red Herrings], Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Covert Akshuns, Northborough St. Warehouse, London
1989 No Pope Here on The Freeway[AKA Rexall Ranger ]
Commerce St. Artists Warehouse, Houston, Texas
Covert Activities[Hardcore Akshuns/Live Mix] Mexic-Arte, Austin, Texas
Dallas[The Quest For Captain Sad] Club DaDa, Dallas, Texas
Boke Factory [w/Tara babel & Shaun Caton] Zero-One Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
Covert Activities [Hardcore Akshuns/Live Mix] Highways,
Santa Monica, California
Blind Mans Bus, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, California
Geek Love, Club X, London, Channel 4 TV, UK
Network, [w/Jon Held Jnr.]Exiles studio, London
1990 April Fool,Irish Spring, Ulster Fries, De Media, Eeklo, Belgium
Change Is Not a Motel [AKA Baton Rounds] Ideophrenia, Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
Baton Rounds & Butcher Boys, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York
1991 Cairns [AKA The Past Is Entombed In The Present]EDGE,
The Last Weekend, Alston, Cumbria, England
Tex-Mex-Hex, El Dia De Los Muertos, studio52, London
Romper Room, Eye To Hand, The Heritage Centre, East End, London
Romper Room [ AKA Did My Friends Have Fun At Play]
Exiles Studio, London
Collages 1984-1991, Exiles Studio, London
1992 Tit Fer Tat/Kill The Kin, Sheffield Media Show, Film Co-op, Sheffield
Hot Dog, Exploding Cinema, London
Local Gods, Shreikback Video, Leyton Crescent, London
1993 Poop Scoop, Woodworks, Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, London
Geek Shop, Woodworks, Vauxhall Underground Station, London
Free Geek, Exploding Cinema, London
Gridlock [AKA Slackers Picnic], Catal Huyak, Houston, Texas
Gridlock [AKA Gang Of One], Club DaDa, Dallas, Texas
Gridlock [AKA I Will Work For Nothing] Electric lounge, Austin, Texas
1994 The Geek [Rest in Peace] Winterschool, Glasgow
Gridlock [AKA Vigilante Man] Violence of the Imagination,
Zap Club, Brighton
Gridlock [AKA Who Wants to Buy Me], 3rd International
Performance Festival, Rotterdam
Fort Port Akshun, Schiedam, Holland
1995 Crow, Cardiff Art In Time, Chapter arts Centre, Cardiff
Crow [Yellow Sky, Yellow Rain], Galerie QQ, Krakow, Poland
Scrubbing Skin, Nowa Huta, poland
Floating Skin, Birkenau, Poland
1996 Second Skin, Cardiff Art in Time
Second Skin [Behind The Mask] NIPAF, Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
Second Skin [Other Stories] NIPAF, Workers Prefectural Hall, Nagano
Threshold, Circa Office At Night, Belfast
Second Skin [Inquisition], Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Speak To Me Of My True Names, FIX, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
The Secret Place, Castle of Imagination, Bytow , Poland
Shelter, Smolinski National Park, Baltic region, Poland
Slip Inside This House, Baltic Arts Centre, Ustka, Poland
Europe Endless, AnnArt 7, Lake ST. Annes, Transyvania, Romania
Stalker/Deadhead, Smolinski National Park, Baltic, Poland
Skin/Exiles/Nomads, North London University
Second Skin [Final Solution], ASA Performance Konference,
Köln, Germany
Ceasefire [Make Sure You Have Bread On The Table]
Rencontre internationale, Le Lieu, Quebec
Ceasefire [The Ties That Bind Us], Cinecycle, Toronto
1997 Eat Your Words, Exiles Studio, London
God Is Sexy, Broadway, New York
Heal Yourself, Wig Club, Baltimore
East [Workhorse], Wong Spot, San Antonio, Texas
Burnt Ta Fuck, Amorph!, Tampere International Theatre Festival, Tampere, Finland
Toxic, Inner Arts, Fire Station Studios, Dublin
Harvest [24 hour akshun] [w/Kate Ellis & Catherine Waller],
Fort Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Harvest [For The Children] [w/Kate Ellis & Catherine Waller]
Transart , Nova Zamky, Slovakia
Harvest [Sweep The Garden, Any Size], [Kate Ellis & Catherine Waller]
Artpool P-60 Gallery, Budapest
At Climax, Rootless, HTBA, Ferrans Gallery Hull, England
Communion, UKS, Oslo, Norway
Respect, UNESCO Art Hansa, Koln, Germany
Autumn Perennial, Maschinhaus Zech Carl, Essen, Germany
Winter Light, Kunstraum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Winter Light, Kunstfabrik Tor1, Koln, Germany
Sweet Surrender, Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund, Germany
1998 I Love You, Sub Versions, Nottingham
The Woman Who Fell To Earth, The Medium Is Not The Message,
Red Gallery, Hull
Substance [AKA The Enemy], Intermedia, Cork, Ireland
Heart Like A Wheel, NIPAF Asian Series, Nagoya, Japan
You Only Live Twice, Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo
A I Shi Ma Shu [w/Maya Wagatsuma] NIPAF Summer School,
Izna Heights, Nagano
To Say Goodbye, Neon Hall, Nagano
Perimeter, Heathrow airport, London
Free Food, Tooting Broadway, London , Channel 4 TV, UK
Killing Time, Streetworks, Glasgow
Substance [Living In Two Worlds], Ex-Teresa, Mexico City
Nature Is Perverse [The Envoy], New Modern Museum,
Stockholm, Sweden
The Envoy, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland
1999 Learning To Fly, CAT Show, Cardiff
O, To Be In England, A Year of Sundays, Dartington Village Hall,
Devon, England
The Occupation, Polysoneries, Lyon, France
The Colony, Infusion, Limerick, Ireland
Once Bitten, Twice Shy, InterAction, London
Witness, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, New York
Where The Grass Is Greener, Amorph!, Box Forum Gallery, Helsinki
Stranded, Turku Academy of Art, Turku, Finland
Resistance, PFO, Odense, Denmark
Penance, Sandomeiz Castle Museum, Sandomierz, Poland
Promises OF Paradise, Art Trail, Guys Building, Cork
The Elements, Art Surgery, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
Enlightenment, Art Surgery, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
2000 Innocence, Full Nelson III, Powderkeg, Seattle, USA
Conviction, Cathedral Quarter Festival, Belfast
Detention,Interakcje 2000, Piotrow Trybunakski,Poland
Convention, Dolnoslaski Festival Sztuki, Wroclaw, Poland
Comfort, National Sculpture Fcatory, Cork
Honour,British Performance Art Show, Koln, Germany
Sacrifice End of Milleneum,Bergen, Norway
Dolphins, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
2001 Homework, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada
Legends of the Evergreen Coast, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Evidence, Open Space, Victoria, BC, Canada
2002 Arguments For The City,Chapter Arts Centre & Public sites – Cardiff
The Informers/guru.Guru, Nippon International perforance Festival, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagano, Japan
Guru, Guru, 12-12 Live Web Cast – Cardiff
The Soft Parade, Full Nelson, Los Angeles
The Glamour Trail, Burning Bush 2 – Dundee, Scotland
Trouble In Paradise, Streetlevel, s’Hertogenbosch, Holland
Eugenics, Arvika Rock festival, Sweden
Bouldering, Roches Point Lighthouse, Cork, Ireland
Civil Twilight/Humament, [w/Roddy Hunter],Zone East,
Timisoara, Romania
Civil Twilight/Humament, [w/Roddy Hunter],
Transart Communication, Nove Zamky, Slovakia
Atomized [Outside], Stockholm, Sweden
Atomized [Inside], Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
Europa, FIX, Europa Hotel, Belfast
2003 The Bedford Project : various locations, Bedford, England
The Italian Job Bedford, England
I Love You Bedford, England
Pilgrim Bedford, England
White Trash Curry Kick Bedford, England
Missing Bedford, England
The Tweed Man Bedford, England
Orgone Accumulator Bedford, England
Forest Bedford, England
The Panacea Society Bedford, England
I Love You, Tactile Bosche, Cardiff
Pilgrim II, Brrr, Oporto, Portugal
Haunted, City Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
SNUFF I , Hall Street Gallery,- Portland, Oregon, USA
SNUFF II, Waterloo Arts Centre, Cedar Valley
Performance Art Series, Iowa, USA
Lemon Bloody Cola, Arab Israeli Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Brothers of charity , Currency, Exit Arts, New York City, USA
The Boys Room, House Project, Cardiff
Made In China, DaDoa Live Art, Beijing, China
Close Encounters, EPAF, Lublin Cultural Centre, Poland
The Omen, EMAF, Odzaki, Serbia
RHWNT, Wales-Quebec Exchange, Le Lieu Centre en Art Actuel,
Quebec City, Canada
Easter, Experimentica, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Dissappeared, Huesca Arts Festival, Spain
I Love You, Scope and Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park London
2005 A Vague Demonstration Of Trembling, SMFA, Boston, USA
I Love You, Scope, New York
The Institution, Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff
MTV, [w/Matt Cook] Art Action, Monza l, Italy
I Love You, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy
Ti Amo, Reaction, Maestre, Italy
Nostalgia, Baltic Art Centre, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Of Contradiction, Trace Residency, 798 Factory, Beijing, PR China
Re-Direksyon’05, Manilla, Phillippines
Missing, Galerie Animal, Santiago, Chile
Missing ll, Valparaiso, Chile
Love, Greed & Culture, Cork European City of Culture
2006 Drawing Centre , New York
Accione , Madrid Centre of Culture, Spain
Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Canada
National Eisteddfod, Wales
2007 National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
British School in Rome
‘Dingo’, Artspace, Sydney , Australia
‘Ghost of C-Town’ Campbellltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia
‘Smile’ Hiroshima Art Project, Japan
Contemporary Art Centre, Warsaw, Poland
2008 Trace Displaced, Trace Collective NRLA, Tramway, Glasgow
Gwaith, Trace Collective, National Eisteddfod, Cardiff
Is This A Political Act?, Asiatopia, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre
2009 ShiftWork, w/Fritz Welch, The Lab, New York
Post-Gutai-Cluster-Fuck, 5th World Ceramics Biennale, Icheon, Korea
Big Pinko, [w/Tony Schwensen] Minto, Campbelltown, Australia
Looking For Brett, Sydney, Canberra & Thirroul, Australia
Post-Eternity, Sydney, Australia
Post-Colonial-Cluster-Fuck, Trace Collective, Artspace, Sydney
In Patagonia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Post-Historical-Cluster-Fuck, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
2011 Amnesia, Substation, Singapore
Triple AAA, [Stitt, MacLenna, Hall] Dunedin School of Art Gallery,
New Zealand
Spectral Arc/Vanishing Point, [w/Alastair MacLennan]
St Paul St. Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Amnesia, Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff
2012 Friktion, Upsala Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Triple AAA, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2018-19 Reclaiming the New Town, Illume, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, England
2019-20 Etching the New Town: Cwmbran, Wales, Cumbernauld, Scotland, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, Harlow, England, Stevenage, England, Skelmersdale, England, Peterlee, England and Milton Keynes, England.