catching up on November 2017: Cardiff Poetry Experiment

I was invited to read at Cardiff Poetry Experiment November 28th 2017 with John hall and Lisa Samuels. 

This is what I read:

I created Is the page like skin? ... but this is a screen of light in a new form for this event. 

In 2010 I wrote an essay on my MA Performance Writing “Folding into the Haptic”, I folded this essay up and transcribed it – this is taken from that version, using deletion, leaving whole phrases. The first paragraph is from the original.

It is somehow an introduction to me.

I sip from the Lily, written in 2017 but linking back to work on my fine art degree in 1998/99. Some themes just keep threading through.

Ysgwydd uses the text created for a surround sound piece of the same name during my MA Performance Writing.

Then I read from what was a current commission for Arcade Cardiff’s

Nid/Not writer (not) in residence: Caerdydd: Past and Presence

Spring dreams, huffing 1 & 3 [soundcloud track is slightly  longer piece and includes the listy version I read 1 and the more "expressive" alphabetical version 3 ]

Light full 1 & 3

Many thanks to Rosie for helping me finalise the order of work and to Josh for inviting me. And the terrifying panel afterwards…with Wanda - Lisa & John
And I decided to be both Flo & Maura

Rhod at Made in Roath October 2014

enwi'r gwyllt | naming the wild

On September 10^th 2014 I looked in the garden for wild plants  [weeds] and named them. I use plants to map my world.

Collecting plant names in English and the Brythonic languages is an ongoing project. Here I speak the English and the Cymraeg.

David Shepherd will work out where the picture labels go in the garden as I will not be able to return in person to the garden for Made in Roath.

I lived close to this road in the mid 1980s and the late 1990s.

Diolch | Thank you: Jacob Whittaker & David Shepherd

Salon de Textes Edition 2

Pride & Prejudice Movement & Letters by Way of Verbs - a reading
Delpha Hudson - curator/organiser - sits with bell in hand to stop me after 10 minutes, I was getting close to the end....

LISTEN HERE

Also showing were Working with Jane Austen Movement: Past, Possible, Present and Mention of Letters [Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion] and the short version of Pride & Prejudice.
Plus Judith Whitehouse's response to my reading Pride & Prejudice Movement & Letters by Way of Verbs [heard via a recording] and my response to Mark Leahy's "hello" This is a test", more on that HERE




Link to Salon de Textes Edition 2 April 11th 2014
 a wide range of works - live or in response to spoken word pieces.

Links

A guided tour of some of my work, particularly relating to language.
Link to a short biography & statement [with more links to specific exhibitions]

Main archive of work [this blog]

Experiments with language, written and spoken: Chwilio am geiriau

Relating to M.A. Performance Writing: Y lle hwn, yma

from Rhôd 2012: 23 minutes of writing, 7 minutes of reading
another text  recorded live [with its own links to further information.

Fold into the Haptic: work around an essay, that has been reworked and been part of an installation for Colony 13, touch textile text fold | cyffwrdd tecstilau testun plygiadI.  have yet to make a recording of the folded essay.

A sketch for Ysgwydd  which became a surround sound work shown at Y lle hwn yma

there are many links and wanderings possible through my blogs [Lists on my flo blog are a favourite little ongoing project] and Soundcloud

Folding into the Haptic an essay and an essay reduced by folding

the recording from Reconcile | Cysoni III at Adar in 2012

lists of flowers from which Blodeuwedd is created in English, Welsh, Breton




A link to a separate blog with more information on the project

Pride & Prejudice shortened further

By method of erasure I reduced Pride & Prejudice to descriptions pertaining to movement in, or descriptions of, space, past, present possible plus anything to do with letters – I did the same with Sense & Sensibility and Persuasion. This involves the movement of people, descriptions of rooms or houses, the drives to Pemberley, the crucial letters in each story. Pride & Prejudice was reduced further to spoken reading of 30 to 40 minutes duration – whilst still being recognisable to close readers of Jane Austen. This piece is the third layer: just the verbs of the original erasure version, the skeleton of space and movement in it – and the important letters. Is there anything recognisable to anyone else other than me? Could these be instructions for a performance?
This piece was recorded in the airing cupboard.

The work was "shown" in Dublin
Sound Devices: exploring literature through sound - Rathmines Library,
(Feb 2013) | Second in the Sound Devices podcast series. [see comments]
in a slightly different form - an introduction and finish of two chapters with a single voice, the centre section overlaid

PW12 at the Arnolfini

"Dw i'n Crwydro byd...." has had a new outing. A text created as a response to its showing in Falmouth has been added.

It was shown in the Lightroom at the Arnolfini for the Performance Writing weekend. The placing next to  Emilie O'Brian's "I'm doing this now" was thoughtful, connections of textile, body, making.

Follow this link for more information on "Dw i'n crwydro..."
A link to its showing at Contexture in Falmouth

a duel, duet, dual performance.
A reading and echoing of an erasure version of Pride & Prejudice [a link to a link for more information on the text] based on movement and space. One reads the other repeats until they can't continue, roles are swapped. Sometimes you hear the cry of mercy - that means stop and swap. A lot of laughter.
Performed with sonic artist Lou Laurens

There are photographs but due to reactions to my actions and words the copyright to show them publically has been withdrawn. 

the full unedited half hour recoding - note it was performed at the bottom of basically a very metallic stairwell!