Dr Rowan O'Neill

October 2007

Performance Lecture Tour

London, Reading, Cheltenham, Cardiff, Swansea, Felinwynt

Cerdded Adre was a solo performance reflecting on work that I had created whilst studying for an MA in Performance Making.  The work interrogated theoretical understandings of post-colonialism, identity and performance with my own personal experience as the child of incomers to Wales and my relationship to cymreictod/welshness and other identities within the British Isles.  The work consisted of a live art triptych, Y Goron Dryphlyg / The Triple Crown, juxtaposing folk songs with landscape film, ritual action and stand-up comedy.  The lecture was performed at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Meantime Art Space, Chapter Arts Centre and Swansea University during Sept-Nov 2007 as I journeyed home to Wales from London, apparently on foot.  I was inspired to make this journey by the poet and stonemason Iolo Morgannwg who walked everywhere due to his distrust of horses.  In the event of the journey I mostly got the bus for I found I was simply carrying too many bags.

Images by Sarah B, Meantime Artspace, Cheltenham 

Performance Review: http://experimentica07.blogspot.com/2007/10/experimentica-day-5-autenticity.html

Unawd oedd Cerdded Adre cafodd ei gyflwyno tra bod fi’n cerdded adre o Lundain i Felinwynt, Gorllewin Cymru ar ôl astudio ar gyfer MA Creu Perfformiadau yng Ngholeg Goldsmiths, Llundain. Roedd y gwaith yn dilyn yn ôl-troed yr ysgolhaig a hynafiaethydd Iolo Morgannwg ac yn ymchwiliad o ddelweddau hunaniaeth Brydeinig, Cymreictod a di-Gymreictod, y gwledig, diwylliant a pherfformio. Nod y gwaith oedd rhoi golau ar gymhlethdod hunaniaeth tu fewn Prydain sy’n datganoli. Dyfod y gwyliwr o’r môr, i gae, i fan sefydliadol metropolitanaidd, trwy ganeuon traddodiadol ynglŷn â brenhiniaeth, alltudiaeth a haenau cymdeithas.