- Venue
- Swansea
- Starts
- Saturday, March 25, 2017
- Ends
- Sunday, March 26, 2017
- Address
- elysiumgallery and Studios16 College Street, Swansea, SA1 5BH
- Location
- Wales
- Organiser
- Joanna bond
Joanna Bond is an emerging performance artist whose exciting
multi-disciplinary projects offer a challenging and innovative practice which seeks to engage with contemporary issues. Joanna’s new project is a solo project which will create performance walk and train journey, site specific performances, song, music, films, audio art and visual art. Following the performance walk there will be a period of development which will create a live solo performance to be toured to venues along the line from Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Swansea, Cardiff and Newbridge Gwent.
The project is part of Joanna Bond’s ongoing practice exploring how a creative, socially engaged process of making performance might raise awareness and have implications for wider issues in society. This work is rooted in the previous project Singing the Line into Existence whilst exploring the far deeper and more personal disconnection and connections Joanna Bond has with the town of her birth, Abercarn.
The solo walking performances, and train performances will be filmed and recorded as audio, including connections and disconnections with people along the various stages of the journey.
The film and audio will exist as separate pieces available through digital platforms and then will also be embedded into the performance presented as in 2018 as the second stage of the project.
The performance walk and train journey starts on 25th March, departing from Carmarthen station at 11:09 and arriving in Swansea at 11:56 where Joanna is taking part in an event organised by the Elysium gallery called THE END IS BY YUR. Joanna will walk around Swansea finding interesting places to stop and place ‘tiny’ site specific installations in. She is also exhibiting her collages and installations at the Elysium gallery. Then on the 26th she will head to Cardiff, then catching the train to Cardiff where I will perform walk to the Welsh Assembly, then on from Cardiff to Risca on a reinstated valleys railway line, and then finally walk 3 miles to the town of Abercarn where I grew up. Then catch the train from Newbrige to Cardiff then Cardiff then Carmarthen where the line stops…
“I hope to explore the connections that exist now in the present and explore what connections and disconnection mean to me and championing how art, specifically how performance can play a role in this current political discourse to reinstate the railway line from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen.
Joanna is seeking funding for this project,in the meantime she has set up a fund raising page on her website shop. By donating and showing your love you will revive, original songs as and when they are made recorded and mastered, imagery created during the project direct to your email address for a whole year . Joanna needs your help to make it happen,If you would like to help support my art 
please donate.
