This week’s selection includes exhibitions and publication launches in Cardiff, West Yorkshire, London and Newbury, all taken from a-n’s Events section featuring shows and events posted by a-n members.
I was invited to participate in a group exhibition at Bay Art by Iwan Bala. The exhibition explored notions of identity and culture through language. Link to exhibition at Bay Arts http://www.bayart.org.uk/dim-ond-geiriau-ydi-iaith-a-language-is-only-words/ Llŷr and I were able to offer a […]
Recording studio We used the Sound recording studio at the Vic, Wrexham. We approached the actor Wyn Bowen Harries to read the script. We discussed approaches to the reading and asked Wyn to bring some acting methodologies to the rehearsal […]
Pulling ideas from Pitman’s short hand in Welsh language. Writing approaches / monologues and script writing. I wrote a rough first draft script during the Litmus residency I undertook at Oriel Davies, Newtown. I used this collection of writing / […]
Research I approached the Welsh language department at Bangor University about my research project and made inquiries about supporting the work. I was fortunate to make an appointment with Professor Jerry Hunter, whose novel ‘Ebargofiant’ inspired the beginnings of my research. […]
Dyfodiaith – Future language
Tafod Dadweirlled – Metamorphosing tongue
This research period will help develop a narrative, which imagines speaking to an unknown future; it will be developed into a new script that will serve as the basis of a new sound work.
How can machine learning re-imagine seemingly fixed conceptions of individual and collective identity?
Imagining Merkel and May taking part in the Eurovision song contest! Inspired by Dada poetry, Euro(re)vision explores the relationships between artificial intelligence, politics and pop culture.
I cannot express the benefits of sharing practice and space with artists whose main discipline is different from my own. Taking myself out of the context of the UK to consolidate my own methodologies was needed to further enhance my […]
While excavating for movement, we cannot underestimate the history that lies inside muscles and bones. The heavy breath drawing down our diaphragm, that constant pressure to assimilate leaving thick February fog shape hopelessness in the gravity of ribs. On a […]
What I’ve grown to love about vogue femme is how it is unashamedly bold, fierce, sensual, unapologetic. It allows me to access my femininity in a way that feels less cumbersome. It’s a femininity for me and not for the […]
A week-long residency in New York with choreographer Kristopher Pourzal exploring movement, Queerness, resistance & Race as a context to heal through movement.
The film took us so gently on a physical journey through the garden space, a mental journey through its history but also on an emotional journey – as we descended the space of the garden we explored some of the […]
Is that where we are headed?
The new gallery designed by 6a architects has more than doubled its exhibition space and includes a sequence of new public spaces in and around the new gallery, plus a large learning and community studio. Jack Hutchinson reports from Milton Keynes.
I’ve done it again… said I would blog more regularly, but then things happen and another month (or two) goes by. It really has been a learning curve to just sit back and let things happen. I’ve seen ‘opportunities’ come […]
Looking around a.n, I found this rather fine post from about 5 years ago about ageism. I was surprised at how little it was commented on, and how little seems to have changed. Any thoughts on this? Has it got […]
My role within the Sky Above project is to ultimately help shift Hannah’s ideas into a reality. I will be / have been doing this by discussing with Hannah the following areas: Curation of space, in which we have discussed […]
There is something meditative about being in this field. A slightly altered state of mind. Rhythms form over time, linked by the experiences of previous visits. Revisiting drives my growing curiosity. I visit those areas I have been before, those […]
More News in Brief: Italian galleries and collectors pledge support for contemporary art as right-wing government slashes art funding; New York’s Performa launches online platform for streaming new and archive performance art.
