Simon Herbert: He was Co-Director of Projects UK (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), one of Britain's leading contemporary artist-run centres in the 1970's and 80's. He is now Co-Director with Jon Bewley of LOCUS + (Newcastle), a new artist-run centre that commissions numerous performance and installation works on a national and international scale in Newcastle and abroad. He was guest Curator at Plug In Inc., Winnipeg (1993). He is also a performance artist and writer, with publications in High Performance (Los Angeles) and Performance (London) magazines. Most recently, he published a seminal essay on the history of performance art, "Bread and Circuses" in Art & Design Magazine (London) 1994. He is currently co-directed with Jon Bewley of Locus + - an artist-run centre founded in 1992 in Newcastle upon Tyne.