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A research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of Performance Art in Wales. Prosiect ymchwil i ddadorchuddio ac archifo hanes Celf Perfformio yng Nghymru.
Project Director Cyfarwyddwr Prosiect:
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What's Welsh for Performance? Beth yw 'performance' yn Gymraeg?An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales - Hanes Llafar Celfyddyd Perfformio yng Nghymru
Destruction in ArtInterviewee / Cyfwelai: Ivor Davies One of the foremost figures in contemporary Welsh art, painter, writer and activist Ivor Davies, a native of Penarth, taught Art History at Edinburgh University and Newport College of Art. He received a doctorate from Edinburgh for his thesis on the Russian avant-garde and has published many scholarly articles on the modern period in both the English and Welsh languages. For nearly twenty years now he has painted full time. A synthesis of ancient Celtic and modern Welsh issues expresses a struggle for cultural and national identity in his work, which appears in many public and private collections. 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, which were shown in Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol and at the influential Destruction in Art Symposium in London in 1966. His Adam on St Agnes' Eve at Swansea University in 1968 was the first known work of performance art to take place in Wales. Ivor Davies was in conversation about his performance work in the 1960s, the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966 and his involvement with the Beca group. Bu Ivor Davies o Benarth, sy'n arlynydd, awdur a gweithredwr gwleidyddol ac yn un o'r ffigurau mwyaf blaenllaw yn y byd celf cyfoes yng Nghymru, yn dysgu Hanes Celf ym Mhrifysgol Caeredin a Choleg Celf Casnewydd. Derbyniodd ddoethuriaeth o Gaeredin am ei draethawd ar yr avant-garde yn Rwsia ac mae wedi cyhoeddi llawer o erthyglau ysgolheigaidd ar y cyfnod modern yn Saesneg ac yn y Gymraeg. Ers yn agos i ugain mlynedd bellach mae wedi bod yn peintio'n amser llawn. Mae synthesis o bynciau Celtaidd hynafol a rhai Cymreig modern yn mynegi'r frwydr am hunaniaeth ddiwylliannol a chenedlaethol yn ei waith, sydd i'w weld mewn nifer o gasgliadau cyhoeddus a phreifat. Bu gan Davies ddiddordeb erioed yn y mudiadau celfyddydol mwyaf radicalaidd. Yn ystod y 1960au chwaraeodd ran ganolog yn y mudiad Destruction in Art, gan greu cyfres o berfformiadau a oedd yn cynnwys diagramau anatomegol a ffrwydron ac a ddangoswyd yng Nghaeredin, Durham, Bryste a'r digwyddiad dylanwadol yn Llundain ym 1966, sef y Destruction in Art Symposium. Ei waith ef, Adam on St Agnes Eve, ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe ym 1968 oedd un o'r “digwyddiadau” cyntaf y gwyddir amdano a gynhaliwyd yng Nghymru. Sgwrsiodd Ivor Davies am ei waith perfformio yn y 1960au, y Destruction in Art Symposium ym 1966 a'i ymrwymiad â'r grwp Beca. In English / Yn Saesneg With the support of Chapter and SHIFTwork/CSAD, UWIC. Gyda chefnogaeth Chapter a SHIFTwork/CSAD, UWIC. Image / Llun 1: Ivor Davies, ‘Adam on St Agnes Eve’ 1968, Swansea / Abertawe.
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Artist Ivor Davies remembers the influences on his early performance work in the 1960s. Mae´r artist Ivor Davies yn dwyn i gof y dylanwadau ar ei waith perfformio cynnar yn y 1960au.
See Accessing Interviews for details of where to access the whole interview Part of “What’s Welsh for Performance? – An Oral History of Performance Art in Wales" Funded by / Ariannwyd gan Arts Council of Wales/ Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru Keywords / Geiriau Allweddol:Back to Interviews/ Nôl i'r Cyfweliadau |
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