Sunday 29 June 2008

The Museum Of The Moment Workshop (Cardiff)

The Museum Of The Moment Workshop
Sunday 29th June 10am - 5pm
The Old Library, The Hayes, Cardiff
www.arcadesproject.org
6 workshops given by leading practitioners that invite you to explore the city through photography, making video on your mobile phone, writing fiction, recording oral history or drawing.
ALL WELCOME TO TAKE PART For FREE
Come along and try something new or develop an existing interest
The Workshops
(choose 1 from the morning session and 1 from the afternoon)
Morning 10 - 1
Photographing Place* –Richard Page
Site Specific Writing –Angela Morgan Cutler
Exploring Architecture Through Drawing- Jennie Savage and Richard Powell
Afternoon 2-5
Photographing People* –Pratap Rughani
Introduction to Recording Oral History - Rib Davis
Making & Editing Films on Your Mobile Phone* – Victoria Tillotson & Nic Finch.
*you will need to bring a digital camera/ mobile phone to take part
Go to the website www.arcadesproject.org and click on TAKE PART to find out more about the workshops and to book a place.
The Museum Of The Moment is part of “The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary” by Jennie Savage

Thursday 26 June 2008

Showroom (Aberystwyth)












- will be a new platform for artists in Aberystwyth
- an evening for artists to show and present work (finished as well as in-progress), to try out new ideas, to re-visit old ones, to share, to experiment…
- a space to meet and socialise…
- a space that is shaped by your ideas and your input

Invitation to participate:
We are looking for your work for Showroom. This could take the form of live work/performance, video, installation, participatory works, interventions, sound, and so forth. All input and suggestions are welcome and appreciated – we are happy to discuss your ideas.
We will launch Showroom on Thursday the 26th of June, upstairs in the Coopers Arms, Aberystwyth at 8 o'clock. From then on Showroom will take place every last Thursday of the month.
Showroom is organised by Richard Allen, Kasia Coleman, Daniel Ladnar, Gareth Llŷr, Esther Pilkington, and Louise Ritchie.
http://www.show-room.org.uk

Saturday 14 June 2008

Bossa Nova - tactileBOSCH (Cardiff)

A Contemporary Painting Exhibition @ tactileBOSCH
Opens SATURDAY June 14th 2008
BOSSANOVA is a tactileBOSCH ‘studio without walls' project that aims to push the envelope in a residency style program that shows a number of practitioners preparing for an exhibition of contemporary painting. A number of areas will be designated as work in progress areas from the 1 st June until the opening of the exhibition on Sat 14 th June. BOSANOVA will remain in situ till Sat July 12th .
Curated by Graham Phillips & Kim Fielding
with: Iwan Bala, Alan Rhys Baynes, Jiao Chen, Dominic Crastner, Matt Duncan, Nathan Ford, Dafydd Fortt, Paul Granjon, Andrew Hill, Samuel James Hunt, Gilles Ben Istri, Zaeger Jones, Katharina Lewonig, Ben Lloyd, Luke Mintowt-Czyz, Robert Pepperell, Ben Rees-Thomas, Will Roberts, Clare Skidmore, Tobias Stengal, Markus Weis, Aishan Yu
*In keeping with the expressive Painting theme a number of-performances will inhabit the outer reaches of tactileBOSCH from 6.30-9pm
Hannah Jones, James Harper, Ashleigh Heeson, Hannah Pollard, Joan Jones, Andy Hill, Matt Duncan & Andy Taylor
Saturday 14 th June from 6.30 – 9pm
With an after party From 9.30pm @ the evolving NosDa Hotel in Riverside
www.tactilebosch.org

It was forty years ago today ... that Yoko Ono did not come to Wales

Yoko Ono (Japan)
Intention to fly [or] Attention! To: Fly
Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, National Museum of Wales
14 June 1968




"For half an hour last night 200 people sat waiting for the ‘happening’ promised at Cardiff’s Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre by the Japanese avant garde artist, Yoko Ono.
Then they realised that it had ‘happened’. A huge photograph of Miss Ono staring limply from the stage of the lecture theatre was the evening’s entertainment for which the organisers - the 56 Group of Welsh Artists - had paid 50 guineas.
Earlier in the evening a chauffeur-driven car had delivered two photographs and a one word message, ‘Fly’, to Mr. Keith Richardson Jones, lecturer at Newport College of Art, who was waiting outside the lecture theatre for Miss Ono to arrive.
As the audience, mainly art students, waited for the Japanese artist - who has been involved in ‘happenings’ all over the world - to arrive, Mr. Richardson Jones carried the 2ft. square portrait on to the stage and popped it up on a piano.
It was 40 minutes before the audience realised that the happening had happened and it was time to go home. As they left they were refunded their 5s. entrance fees.
But the organisers were quite satisfied that they had received value for money. ‘We half expected that she would not turn up,’ said Mr. Richardson Jones.
Miss Ono was expected to have been involved personally in a performance of her famous ‘happenings’. In London two years ago she invited members of the audience to cut off all her clothes.
She recently made a film based entirely on shots of naked human bottoms.
Footnote: Before the last student had left for home, one member of the audience put his shoe in the middle of the floor ... and they all watched it for a while."
(Mario Basini, Western Mail, 15 June 1968)

Tuesday 10 June 2008

What's Welsh for Performance? DATABASE ONLINE

1965: Happenings in Cardiff
1968: Fluxus in Aberystwyth
1968: Yoko Ono at the National Museum of Wales
1969: Destruction in Art in Swansea
1970: Performance Art at Barry Summer School
1974: Experimental Theatre in Cardiff with Moving Being, Cardiff Lab and the Keith Wood Group
1977: Joseph Beuys and Paul Davies at the National Eisteddfod Wrexham
1994: Cardiff Art in Time and Grey Suit...

The What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'Performance' yn Gymraeg? database is an online searchable resource documenting nearly 2000 performance events in Wales from January 1965 to the present day.
VISIT: http://www.performance-wales.org/english/archive/database.htm
For a full list of the artists currently represented
VISIT: http://www.performance-wales.org/english/archive/database/artists.htm
The database went online in the autumn of 2007.

Sunday 8 June 2008

62.7 MHz (Eddie Ladd)

MA Practising Performance
Group production 2008
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
62.7MHz
Devised by / Dyfeisiwyd gan: Ffion Jones, Carmel George, Alison Matthews,
Rhiannon Morgan, Tom Payne
Directed by / Cyfarwyddwyd gan: Eddie Ladd (www.eddieladd.com)
DJ: Steffan Cravos (DJ Lambchops, ex-Tystion)
Friday Dydd Gwener 23 May Mai and Saturday Dydd Sadwrn 24 May Mai
Showings- Broadcasts / Sioeau - Darllediadau: 6pm and 7.30pm
Two live pieces for radio. Dau ddarn byw ar gyfer y radio.
6pm A journey in real time. Taith mewn amser go
iawn.
7.30pm An evening DJ radio mix. Cyfuniad radio gan droellwr yn y
nos.

Admission is FREE.
Audience numbers are limited - please book in advance by emailing:
Emma Hayward
Mynediad AM DDIM.
Mae llefydd yn y gynulleidfa yn brin - archebwch o flaen llaw drwy e-bostio:
Emma Hayward
Location: Foundry Studio, Parry Williams Building.
Lleoliad: Y Ffowndri, Adeilad Parry Williams.

Saturday 7 June 2008

Awst & Walther: Beyond the Comfort Zone (Oriel Mostyn)

Awst & Walter
BEYOND THE COMFORT ZONE
at Oriel Mostyn Gallery (Llandudno)
Saturday 7th June from 6pm
The exhibition continues to 24th June
Open from 10am - 1pm and 1.30pm - 5pm, Tuesday - Saturday
www.mostyn.org
www.awst-walther.com