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Artist(s) Ivor DaviesCollaborator(s) Thomas, Phil (Stage Manager); Boman, Neil (Projectionist); Turner, Lois; Phillips, John; Breakwell, Ian; Breakwell, Jackie (acting or dancing) and the members of THE 98% MOM & APPLE PIE WEST COAST ROCK’n’ROLL BAND who include Barrett, Paul (Vocalist), Lewis, Nigel (Guitar),Lewis, Ricky (Bass Guitar), Macaethy, Richard (Flute), Donelly, John (Drums), Petherick, Cyril (Guitar), Oliver, Jeffery (Vocalist), Llewellyn, Robert (Vocalist), Peterson, Robt. (Guitar). . Country of Residence Wales, ScotlandTitle Adam on St. Agnes' EveDate 21 January 1968Extent 7.30-8.00pmSite Swansea: Debates Chamber, Union HouseEvent University College of Swansea Arts Festival Sponsor Committee for the Arts, Student Union, University College SwanseaType PerformanceKeywords painting, drawing; destruction art; explosions Traces 8 mm film, black and white, no sound (5 min 06 sec); b/w photographs and collages; performance scores; props list; tickets; paper bags with cast list (used for audience); correspondence; all private collection Ivor Davies; interview recording: Ivor Davies in conversation with Heike Roms, Cardiff 15 October 2006 - video and audio;transcript - What’s Welsh for performance? collection Heike Roms Notes Ivor Davies is a painter, writer and activist and one of the foremost figures in contemporary Welsh art.Always interested in the most radical art movements, during the 1960s Davies was central to Destruction in Art, creating a series of performances involving anatomical diagrams and explosives. Other important performance events in Wales this year Yoko Ono Attention: To Fly (a.k.a. Intention to Fly, or Fly) (Cardiff); Ian Breakwell Buffet Car News (Cardiff); Gustav Metzger Extremes Touch: Material/Transforming Art (Swansea);Miss Rainbow Day, Brian Lane and the First Dream Machine [or] Fluxus Festival Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth); Barry Summer School. |
1965 : 1966 :1967 : 1968 : 1969Adam on St.Agnes' Eve
'Gustav Metzger who was the originator of DIAS was invited to Swansea
University for the 1968 Festival where I and a number of other people
were involved in destructivist performance....' 'This is another thing I did here in Swansea where the whole thing was [sic!] dark, huge room and there were bird songs coming out. It was just like a dark forest of green and red lights. Then figures moved across and slides and film projected on pieces of cardboard. Then I had a figure dressed as a surgeon, Ian Breakwell. I had projections of Adam and Eve on nude figures and the figures were behind a sheet of paper and he cut out round the sheet of paper to reveal these nude figures, a man and a woman, Adam and Eve.' (Kristine Stiles: Interview with Ivor Davies, LINK 52 (1986): 10)
Images: Collage: Stephen Hibbs; Performance score (extract) and ticket © Ivor Davies Ivor Davies was the subject of one of Heike Roms' series of conversations with key people in the Welsh performance art scene . Click here to read more on their conversation and to view a short video extract of Ivor Davies discussing this performance piece |
