My selected Location's

No sign bar

 

Image found online photogarpher unknown.

 

With the research that I have found on the history of Swansea it is proven to be a useful nerve information to help me find spaces that have historical memories that I could use for my site specific project.

One of the areas that I am interested in to use as a space for my project is the vault at the No sign bar. The No Sign Bar holds a truly memorable history and culture of Swansea. Established in 1690, the No Sign Bar is regarded as Swansea’s oldest pub.

The building it self, is listed as Grade II and is “the first site of Swansea’s Chamber of Commerce in Swansea.” It has been licensed throughout its historicl time as being a brew house, brewery, wine and spirits merchants and Public House.

The 1930s was a golden era for the City of Swansea with its musicians, writers and artists, the No Sign became a significant creative bohemian hotspot. Most recaziable was the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Him and his creative group became known as “the Kardomah gang” and would be frequently found in the no sign bar in the drankan background.

With this understanding of the history of No sign bar I saw a great possibility for two ideas that I could act apon, for the site specific project. The first idea that jumped into my brain was inspired by an image that I had created over the summer using appropriation the image was of Dylan Thomas sitting in the front area of no sign, I could create this image as a performance piece and it would be a commemoration of one of the greatest poets that Swansea has to offer the world.

The idea I had was to do a projection in the vault of no sign, this idea came from the research that I did on Swansea. I found that the Castle in the center of town there underneath the eoans is a serious of tunnels, theys caturcoms lead off to a number of diffrant locations within the town. One of the tunnels leeds to the underneath of no sign, back 200 years ago these tunnels were used to bring in legal substance such as tobacco and alcohol. With that information I thought it could be possible to do a projection in the vault of a possible re-enactment of the men bringing in the crates I think this would be a great way to share knowledge and information founded about one of Swansea's historical spots.

 

Image above is of the catacombs of Swansea in 1900s. Image unkown.

 

The question would be how I would get permission to work within the walls of no sign. Well luckily enough owners that currently have possession of the bar are family friends of mine and as a added plus I’m an ex employee so I know the ins and outs of the space. If I was to ask them I'm quite sure that they would allow me to use the space in reason to set up the site-specific ideas within the vault.