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WHOSE COMMON NOW?
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 Poet Mark Gwynne Jones performed his poems in a series of 'Portavillions' |
Whose Common Now: A series of site specific performances by poet and performer Mark Gwynne Jones
September 6, 2008 Holland Park, Primrose Hill, Potters Fields Park, London
In collaboration with Portavilion produced by UP Projects, LANS commissioned a series of site specific performances that took place in and around the temporary 'Portavilion' structures designed by internationally acclaimed artists Dan Graham, Toby Patterson, Monika Sosnowska and Annika Eriksson in four of London’s most used and celebrated Parks. This performative event by Mark Gwynne Jones explored the nature of our common spaces as places to reflect and even daydream.
To open a poetic dialogue, Mark invited the public to text him their thoughts on these four new public interventions. These reactions to the four new 'Portavilions' formed the focus of a series of new poems and four performances in which the poet's muse and public's views combined. | Mark Gwynne Jones on Whose Common Now?
“A common space instantly puts you in a different frame of mind” says Mark Gwynne Jones. ”The best parks give us a sense of space, time to reflect, have fun, laze and daydream and how they achieve this is something I would like to explore. I think the works of art provide us with an opportunity to question what we mean by common space. Is a park just a place to kick back and relax or does it serve a more important social function? Why do we have common space? Can a place be common in a society of many cultures?”
The results of Mark’s musings and interactions with the public formed the basis of a series of poems written in the parks over the summer and performed on Saturday 6th September, 2008 at each Portavilion.
|  Read all of the new poems written by Mark Gwynne Jones' as part of Whose Common Now
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