作家与策展人。曾任2003年伦敦泰特现代美术馆 “现场文化”(Live Culture, 2003)展览以及 “表演大事”(Performance Matters, 2009-2014)创意研究计划的联合策展人; 亦曾为澳洲2016年悉尼双年展策展团队 “策展参赞”(Curatorial Attaché)的一员、同年以 “思想自由”(freethought)的成员身份,担任 “卑尔根集结”(Bergen Assembly)的协同总监。希斯菲尔德发表许多关于当代行为表演、艺术、戏剧与舞蹈的专文,他是谢德庆作品集《现在之外》(Out of Now)的作者,也担任《表演、重复、录制》(Perform, Repeat, Record)的协同编辑,以及《现场: 艺术与行为表演》(Live: Art and Performance)的编辑。他的著作被翻译成八种语言,曾与许多艺术家、学者合作,进行批判性与创意性的计划,包括电影对白、行为表演演说。希斯菲尔德目前在伦敦罗汉普顿大学担任行为表演与视觉文化教授。
Adrian Heathfield is a writer and curator. He co-curated Live Culture (Tate Modern 2003) and the creative research project Performance Matters (2009-2014). He was a curatorial attaché for the Sydney Biennale (2016) and, as part of the freethought collective, was a co-director of the Bergen Assembly (2016). He has published extensively on contemporary performance, art, theatre and dance. He is the author of Out of Now a monograph on the artist Tehching Hsieh, co-editor of Perform, Repeat, Record and editor of Live: Art and Performance. His writings have been translated into eight languages. He has worked with many artists and thinkers on critical and creative collaborations including film dialogues and performance lectures. Heathfield is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton, London.