We are continuing the work on John Gingell's archive and this week interviewed three of his collaborators from the early 1970s. John Danvers, Charles Garrad and Ken Hickman were all members of the Zoo Group, an artists' cooperative co-founded by Gingell in the early 1970s. John, Charles and Ken travelled down to Cardiff, to John Gingell's former home, to meet with us. Along with talking about the Zoo Group work, Charles and John were students at Cardiff College of Art during the time that 'Alternative Studies' was being established, which went on to become the Third Area/Space Workshop.
The three were also members of the group 'Anti-bodies', which produced work around Europe in the early 1970s.
The interview summary will be available online on our website at some point soon.
Next, we hope to meet with more former students from Cardiff who were involved in performance work during this time. If you would like more information about this, please email us at mail@performance-wales.org
