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Artist(s)
Rob Con (i.e. Robert Conybear
Collaborator(s)
Cameron, Shirley; Miller, Roland; St James, Marty
Country of Residence
England, Wales
Title
Floorpieces, wallpieces, peoplepieces, brooms, spectacles and handkerchiefs,
and other moanarisms (aka Rob Con in Oriel)
Date
21 - 26 October 1974
Extent
5 days; Monday – Friday 10.30-6.30; Saturday 10.30-6.30; and
Tuesday 22 October 7 pm – A Social Function; Friday 25 October
7pm – Another Social Function
Site
Cardiff: Oriel Gallery
Event
Sponsor
Welsh Arts Council
Type
performances and residency, exhibition
Keywords
sculpture, drawings, apparatuses
Traces
correspondence, catalogue, proposals, publicity
Notes
performance work by Shirley Cameron and Roland Miller and Rob Con and Marty St James staged on Tuesday 22 October 1974 and Friday 25 October 1974
Other important performance events in Wales this
year
Paul Davies Arlynydd Fel y Ddraig Goch (Eisteddfod Caerfyrddin);
John Gingell Performance Structures (Barry); Cardiff Laboratory
Theatre with Théâtre du Double The Lesson of Anatomy:
The Life, Obsessions and Fantasies of Antonin Artaud (Cardiff);
Keith Wood Group The Philosopher's Stone and Nighthawk(Cardiff);
An Evening with Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce (Cardiff); B.Lacey
and J.Bruce Stella Superstar and her amazing galactic adventures
(Cardiff); Rob Con (i.e. Robert Conybear) travelling exhibition
(Cardiff: Oriel Gallery).
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Floorpieces, wallpieces, peoplepieces, brooms, spectacles and handkerchiefs, and other moanarisms (aka Rob Con in Oriel)
ROB CON
Floorpieces, wallpieces, peoplepieces, brooms, spectacles and handkerchiefs, and other moanarisms.
Not to mention the artist.
(You have been warned).
21-26 October
Darnau llawr, darnay wal, darnau pobl, ysgubau, sbectolau a hancesi, a moanarismau eraill. Heb son am yr artist. (Fe’ch rhybuddiwyd)
21-26 Hydref
(notice in Western Mail 19.10.1974)
“PRELIMINARY PASTE UP”
AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF DAYS
(Dependent on number of people that visit the situation)
Rob Con working at Oriel from Oct 21 – 26th (6 ‘actual’ days)
A Day becoming a different-day to different-people (Relative)
I will work for 6 days and as each person see’s [sic!] / experiences each day differently, the total number of days seen / experienced depends on the number of people that visit the situation: ie: If this total number of people who visit the situation during the 6 days amounts to (200), then the total number of days seen/ experienced will be (200).
‘MONARISMS’
“The Management Regrets that Moaning about the Artist is perfectly Alright”
(A) An Idea-Drawing (paper in transparent polythene) to cover floor area approx: 25’ x 15’. The first action by people entering situation at the main door is to step onto / into (or contemplate it first) the Idea-Drawing.
(The information contained in the drawings will have been developed into hardware / aparattus [sic!]/ costume/ action; each piece of action work will relate to the appropriate Idea-Drawing (each drawing being large enough to work / perform on)
NOTE: the overall half-cross shape of the paper / polythene structure is given / dedicated, from a friend to Joseph Beuys (this shape being very important to his work)
(B) Area (B) is for a CROWD situation, a pin-up/ hang/ stand etc … collage of drawings/ photographs/ paintings/ costume/ aparattus [sic!]/ poetry etc…
(C) ‘Conversation Piece’ The participation by the wearing of small idea-aparattus [sic!] (for the 6 days) by the people working at the gallery (including Isabel). During the 6 days the apparatus [sic!] is changed from person to person. (the apparatus [sic!] will not physicaly [sic!] interfear [sic!] with normal working procedure).
(A) At least 4 large paintings will hang in this area.
(Welsh Arts Council Archive at the National Library
of Wales, CCC A/E/671 Rob Conybeare)
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