Lost from View by Holly Davey at Mission Gallery, 2008
http://www.missiongallery.co.uk/exhibitions/lost-from-view/
swansea
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
poem inspired by random words from the journey through Uplands windows
Under-stand the Inner-view,
I stand under Dylan’s view
In the window peace
Beyond the veil.
Window watching
People pursuit.
They occupy my mind
And I am with them.
– Lindsay
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.
rooftop actions
Interesting 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
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.
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/
a photo taken down Cambrian Place
A photo taken down Cambrian Place towards what would have been a dry dock and ship building yard as outlined in the 1879 Map. Pier Street would have been even more impressive with the either the Ships prow or stern towering over the houses. Somerset Place ended in a wharf so it may have been entirely possible for that Windjammer to lay up next to the old Town Hall? Probably not but it would have made a spectacle.
We have been looking into redevelopment proposals for that area (currently a car park) which includes re-opening some of the dry dock elements. There is an early sketch attached showing how we believed that the Cambrian Place vista could perhaps take a focal building.
If you ever take a stroll around the rear of Sainsbury’s you can still see the original walls of the lock control to the North Dock Half Tide Basin leading to what is now the Strand.
What a waterfront city we could have had? -Andrew Nixon
This was on its way to Swansea in 1895 (image 5) – wonder if you would have seen its sails from town if it had arrived there? – Anna Barratt
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