- Venue
- Cader Idris
- Starts
- Saturday, June 25, 2016
- Ends
- Sunday, June 26, 2016
- Location
- Wales
A local myth suggests that those who sleep upon the slopes of Cader Idris will awaken either mad or a poet. Office for Art, Design and Technology is taking its Professional Development Cohort to the peak of this remote, Welsh Mountain to complete an intensive 2 day group residency. This group of emerging artists are collectively willing to take this gamble, to risk either madness or inspiration.
Increasingly, we are told, that if we are not uploading our everyday data to the Internet, if we are not providing documentation of our every move, then it has not happened.
Maybe you’ve just had a gourmet dining experience, if you didn’t post an image of it to Instagram then it never actually happened. Maybe your cat got scared of a cucumber, if you didn’t tweet about it and share the link to the video that you put of it on YouTube then it never actually happened.
If you are an emerging artist and you are completing a residency with no concluding exhibition and you haven’t been sharing your progress online, then likewise, it never actually happened.
But what if an electricity supply wasn’t available? What if there was no phone signal? What if you only had the most basic of provisions?
Following on from Post-Modern Plant Life 2, a previous residency which took place in a botanical gardens in Leamington Spa, we will attempt to discover how and if the works and ideas produced within that artificial space can be transferred into a truly, unmediated, natural space.
The Professional Development Cohort will be joined on this residency by our lead artist, Ryan Hughes as well as by Warwickshire based Landscape Photographer Justin Haynes who will be capturing digital, film and pinhole photographs of the stunning surroundings of Cader Idris.
Will google maps actually assist us? Can we survive two days without playing Angry Birds? Will our phone batteries last the duration?
Use the following hashtags on Instagram and Twitter through the 25th and 26th June to find out:
#NomadicVillage
#PentrefCrwydrol
