Heike Roms is Professor in Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University (Wales). She has published on contemporary performance practice, the history of performance art in a British context, performance historiography and archiving, performance and ecology and performance as a mode of knowledge formation and dissemination. Her edited volume, Contesting Performance – Global Sites of Research (with Jon McKenzie and C.J.W.-L. Wee), was published by Palgrave in 2010. Heike is director of ‘ What’s Welsh for Performance? Beth yw ‘performance’ yn Gymraeg?’ , a project focussing on the historiography of early performance art. The project was funded by a Large Research Grant from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC (2009-2011) and won the David Bradby TaPRA Award for Outstanding Research in International Theatre and Performance 2011. She is currently working on a book arising from the research with the working titleWhen Yoko Ono did not come to Wales - Locating the early history of Performance Art . For more information, please visit www.performance-wales.org