Every second Tuesday lunchtime, Christina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery and co-curator of In Relation: Performance Works by Peter Roche & Linda Buis 1979–1985, selects a performance in the exhibition and reads the relevant original notes drafted by the artists or compiled by their most assiduous audience member, the critic and curator Wystan Curnow. Her idea is to bring a live dimension into the gallery as a way of animating the documentation on display and sharing first-hand insights in their unedited form. Each reading will be between 15 and 20 minutes with time for questions after.

In this reading Tina reads Wystan Curnow’s original notes written soon after attending Peter Roche & Linda Buis’s Liaison performances at Real Pictures in Auckland in March 1980. This was the first time the pair performed together in public as an acknowledged duo. Tina uses the occasion to track the shift from live action to historical event by then reading the notes prepared for the exhibition as a foil to Curnow’s raw report. We are grateful to the author for allowing us to share these direct thoughts with our audience