From the original Festival website:

Through durational performance Trace Collective propose to review the history of the National Review of Live Art as post-historical cluster-fuck.  As in their previous work at NRLA in 2008, the Collective’s performance will be simultaneously archived as a live event. This work has been specially commissioned for the NRLA.

For the 30^th anniversary of NRLA 2010, the instantaneous documenting of live work will take the form of collating and recycling past events through existing historical documents over a two-day period.

Through access to the archives of NRLA, Trace Collective will photocopy all existing performance photo documents, catalogues, posters, flyers, and programmes of past performances and events produced by NRLA since 1979.

They will further insinuate their own physical presence into the archive by photocopying their own bodies. The photocopies will then be shredded with the shredded material being placed in recycled bags for redistribution. A resource and archival hub including text/reports and an information table will be available throughout.

The public will have full access throughout to experience the – live – activity and the resulting installation/evidence and residual traces.

TRACE: is dedicated to the research, investigation, dissemination and discourse of performance art .

The group’s aim is to focus on the investigation and exploration of living performance activity and its discourse and dissemination through process, documentation and archiving.

The group’s work reflects the theory and discourse of performance art cultivated by the activities of TRACE Installaction Artspace & Collective based in Cardiff, Wales. Recent large scale site installation performance residencies by Trace Collective include, the National Eisteddfod of Wales 2008 and Artspace, Sydney, Australia, 2009.

Trace Collective is:
André Stitt, born in Belfast, N. Ireland, Stitt is considered one of Europe’s foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as an experimental artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique works at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world.  Recent work includes: Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, England 2005,  The Drawing Centre, New York, 2006, Artspace, Sydney 2007, Asiatopia, Bangkok 2008, Spacex Gallery, England 2008, The Lab, New York, 2009, MCAC, Northern Ireland 2009. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Creative Wales Award. He is Professor of Performance and Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and is the director of the Centre for Fine Art Research at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Wales, UK. andrestitt.com

Eddie Ladd was brought up in west Wales in a culture that makes its own fun. She learned the rest of what she knows from Brith Gof, an internationally acclaimed Welsh experimental theatre company. She produces what is often described as cross-disciplinary performance work. It has toured internationally and features theatre-based and site-specific pieces on big-hitter themes such as cultural imperialism and the survival of small nations. These performances combine movement, bilingual text, music and imagery. Recent works include a NESTA sponsored web-based performance project and two major commissions from the Royal Opera House in London. Eddie Ladd’s performances are constantly in-demand throughout the world where her reputation as one of Wales premier performers has been honoured with several major awards including the Total Theatre award at the Edinburgh Festival.  She is a research fellow at Aberystwyth University, Wales, where she also conducts master workshops on performance and production. eddieladd.com

Holly Davey is a lens-based artist who explores the interface between captured image and ‘live’ event utilising her body in relation to site; architecture, landscape and the urban environment. Holly graduated from Goldsmiths, London in 1998 and has maintained her ‘live’ practice with an interest in the documentation and archiving of performance art.  Before moving to Wales she worked as a conservation technician for film and video at Tate, and as AV co-ordinator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She has also worked as assistant director to Laurie Anderson and installation co-ordinator for artists such as Michel Rovner, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Lucy Gunning. Holly was selected as Welsh Artist of the Year for her lens-based performance work in 2006. She has also produced work for Syzygy, Beaconsfield, London, the Whitechapel, London, the Edinburgh Festival, G39, Cardiff, and Mission Gallery, Swansea.  Her residencies include Laboral, Gijon, Spain, 2009 and Llandaff Primary School, Cardiff, 2005. She is currently Visual Arts Officer at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

Philip Babot creates live occurrences. His installations embrace the trace elements of the performative act and explore the Zen notion of the space between birth and death.  Based in Wales, he has worked throughout the UK and across Europe, the Americas and the Far East, both as a solo artist and with influential performance companies such as Brith Gof, as well as collaborating with other international artists.  Over the last twenty years he has presented site-specific works globally in diverse locations as well as in traditional art spaces.  In 2003 Philip undertook a year long psychogeographical project, The Long Road to the North, funded by an Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Bursary, and a further ACW funded project, of Wales (2007 / 2008).  Recent performances include those presented at  DaDao Live Art Festival, Beijing (2004); Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo (2005); VIP gallery, Serbia (2005); Galerie Raskolnikow, Dresden (2005); Franklin Furnace, New York (2006); My Land Performance Festival,  taglinec, Croatia, in association with Gallery S, Koprivnica, Croatia (2007), and the National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow (2006, 2007 and 2008). He received a MA in Fine Art in 2002 and is currently researching his PhD Elements of Shamanism Within Performance Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC, where he is a core member of SHIFTwork Time Based Studies Research Group. Philip is also a member of the international artists’ group, We Haunt.

Tim Freeman born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1978 and raised in the Yorkshire Dales. Tim moved to Cardiff in 1998 to study an MA in Fine Art at UWIC. He is known in Wales for his performance documentation and has worked closely with Trace since 2005. His practice also includes archival photography. His recent restoration of unseen portraits of ’50s stars such as Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren by Cinematographer Jack Cardiff were exhibited at the Royal College of Art. Freeman’s performative practice centres on his documentation of walks. Images are built up and manipulated, layer upon layer to create a seamless landscape of contradictions: the urban and the rural; the fictitious and the real; the synthetic and the natural; the poetic gesture and the everyday. He was named Welsh Artist of the Year 2009.