Alan Read presents "Say, Performance: Exemplary Exceptions"
at the International Summeracademy in Frankfurt on August 23, 2004. The lecture is in english.

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Alan Read is Professor and Chair of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

He is author of Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance (Routledge) and editor of The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation (Bay Press). He has recently published Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday (Routledge) a set of essays exploring space, place, architecture and artistic practice.

In the 1980s he was Director of the Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop in London, in the early 1990s worked as a freelance writer in Barcelona, and from 1994-1997 was Director of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He is currently writing on the presence of animals and the limits of humanism in performance for a book entitled, A Natural History of Performance: Infants, Animals and Other Anomalies.

He is director of Performance Architecture & Location a 5-year Arts and Humanities Research Board sponsored project.