- Venue
- National Museum Cardiff, Gallery 22
- Date
- Thursday, January 21, 2016
02:00 PM - Address
- Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP
- Location
- Wales
- Organiser
- National Museum Cardiff
Adam on St Agnes’ Eve at 1:25 reimagines Ivor Davies’s multimedia theatre event, ‘Adam on St Agnes’ Eve’ at the Swansea University Arts Festival on 21 January 1968, at a scale of 1:25.
Inspired by Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’s own tradition of dioramas, as well as Victorian toy theatres, architectural and design maquettes, and small-scale scene-of crime reconstructions, the 2016 presentation involves the animation of an exact replica model of the original site with miniature projections, soundtrack and actions.
The event has been commissioned as part of an AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral award exploring historical performance in museum contexts. Curated by Judit Bodor (Doctoral researcher at Aberystwyth University) and Nicholas Thornton (Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales), it accompanies the exhibition ‘Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art’ (19 November 2015 – 20 March 2016).
Mike Pearson creates theatre as a solo artist and with Pearson/Brookes, Good News From the Future and National Theatre Wales. He is co-author of Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Landscape and Memory (2006), Site-Specific Performance (2010), Mickery Theatre (2012) and Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city (2013).
For more information about the exhibition and research: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff/whatson/8579/Silent-Explosion-Ivor-Davies-and-Destruction-in-Art/
Visiting the museum: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/cardiff/visit/location/
