Gill Perry, Gender, Performance and Play: An Introduction  Professor Gill Perry reviews some of the issues for the day, exploring the relationship between gender, performativity and play. This programme maps out the wide range of practices and theories associated with the labels 'performance', 'performance art' and 'performativity', providing a toolkit with which to explore some of the practices involved.

Marko Daniel, Introduction  This study day explores the various ways in which performance has been used in recent art, focusing on a range of media including photography, performance, installation, video art and painting.

Carey Young, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Imagination Engineering  Using a variety of media including video, performance and photography, artist Carey Young uses found tools, language and training processes from the worlds of the multinational corporation and global law firm and diverts them into an artistic context from which she explores ideas of autonomy, duration, intimacy and dissent.

In this exclusive talk, Gilberto Zorio discussed his work and practice with Germano Celant and Mark Godfrey. Celant is a curator and art critic and at the time of recording, was Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Celant is well known for his theory on Arte Povera (introduced at the Bertesca-Masnata Gallery, Genoa, 1967). He has regularly contributed to the magazines Artforum and Interview. Mark Godfrey is a former Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Art, London and a curator at Tate Modern.