Month: December 2013

a poem from Dylan Thomas’ front room

Light, light destroyed, pathways cold

in shards and splinters.

Silvering break, snow flashes and solid

clarity.

Lifetime silvering mirrors reflecting keeping warm.

A beautifully painted shutter with orangey tungsten edges, keeping warm,

past cold, brittle whiteshine.

-Deirdre

a journey through uplands windows

On this third CIVIC 2014 walk,  Lindsay Halton introduced us to windows, inspired by a line from his book ‘The Secret of Home’ : 

“The way you see the world is the way it is. Change your view, then your experience will change too”.

Catriona Ryan led exercises to explore  our understanding of ourselves through language.  How language defines us and how we define the world around us through language.

The result without exception was some beautiful poetry written by all present at the end of the walk, whilst sitting in Dylan Thomas own front room.

A Journey through Uplands Windows

rooftop actions

v0_masterInteresting roof top actions. Pre gentrification landscape and water towers, the New York of the 60’s and 70’s- the city becomes the material.

An exhibition looking back at the work of Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta Clark and Trisha Brown held at the Barbican Gallery – link bellow.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11398

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A restaurant and artwork – ‘Food’ by Gordon Matta Clark

During Adain Avion, Cultural Olympiad Wales and Dance Days at Taliesin Arts centre programmed Bodies in Urban Spaces to make a new work in response to Swansea’s architecture.  Here they are at Swansea Train Station.

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Image from: http://www.laraward.co.uk/tag/bodies-in-urban-spaces/

More links :

Roof piece http://www.trishabrowncompany.org/?page=view&nr=483 & recreated http://art.thehighline.org/project/trishabrown/