Films

Homeland 2024 ‘There is no there, there‘

National and International Video/Film artists in collaboration with Barcelona LOOP Festival 2024 and Damer House Gallery, Ireland

Alalimon Galeria presents Homeland 2024 in collaboration with the Culture Association ‘La Bibliomusicineteca’,
Carrer de Vila i Vilà 76, 08004 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

14 Nov at 8pm to  20 Dec 2024

Image: cropped still from Maelstrom, a 6 minute video sequence made from collaborative exchanges between
David Bickley, Ireland and Penny Hallas, Wales

For more details see @damerhouseartgallery

Rogue Women 3

 

Bringing together the work of women artists from Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester, alongside 12 selected artists from around the UK.
3 Oct 6-9pm Private View – all welcome 
5 Oct -27 Oct Open Saturdays and Sundays 12-4pm and by appointment during the week. 

Given that my residency at @rogueartists_studios is to focus on video / performance elements in my work, it’s great to have the chance to show a video piece from last year (image 1. A Private Land, 30 mins) which is informing new work in progress in these amazing listed former school buildings (image 2)

Rogue Women 3 is organised and co-curated by Margaret Cahill and Jen Orpin with guest curator Leanne Green head of exhibitions at Tate Liverpool.

Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, 2 – 6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU

 

Rogue Residency

A month’s residency through September with Manchester’s Rogue Artists’ Studios to dig into the role of video
in collaborative live art performance – and how this might connect with live performance to camera.

The residency will be a chance for on-the-job training and professional development: reviewing material I’ve
been working on this year and testing it out with new partners in new environments, linking in with some of
Rogue’s 90+ studio artists and with performers and video artists through Company Chameleon‘s Art Lab / Jam OPEN FLOOR X TEST CARD.

An important part of the residency will be the input of mentors and critical friends in Manchester and Wales –  supporting development of my creative practice but also potential wider benefits through links and exchanges between Wales / Manchester arts communities. Read more about it here. Warm thanks to support from:

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Through the Floor

A three day festival of experimental performance and sound art across three floors with
tactileBOSCH, Shift Cardiff, Carnedd Caerdydd.
July 19 – 21 Ty Wilcox House, Dunleavy Drive, Cardiff, CF11 0BA

My video sequence of the Usk floodplain, with its submerged fallen trees, along with the ruined floor from a psychiatric hospital in Talgarth, provides the setting for the fluxus performance ‘nivea cream piece’, ‘dressing’, and ‘nap’. This durational happening on Saturday afternoon consists of a series of body-based pieces that explore intimacy, connection, personal space, and the unpredictable and uncontrollable forces in nature and within ourselves. @Sgôr_Score

Day & weekend tickets are available.
See @tactileBosch for more information about the programme, performers and events and the link in their bio for how to book tickets.

Hafod

15 June – 6 July Three-week artist residency in Eryri National Park with accompanying exhibition
at Oriel Plas Brondanw and workshop at Oriel Caffi Croesor

Hosted by Noëlle Griffiths at Hafod Art Studio.

SCORE at Experimentica

11 Apr 2024 at Chapter, Cardiff CF5 1QE.
SCORE will delve into an exploration of performativity and play within the Welsh context in a
new site-specific commission’.

It’s been a real pleasure to develop work with SCORE on Maes Chwarae over the last few months.
Here are 2 images of my video and projection made as part of experimental preparation for our performance
– the first showing Rob Oros and the second Tim Martin-Jones.

 

SCORE Experimentica artists are: Beth Greenhalgh, Tess Wood, Vivian Ross-Smith, Tessa Waite, Iona Hannagan Lewis, Lewis Prosser, Tim Martin-Jones, Rob Oros, Penny Hallas.
‘SCORE is a pulsating slime of oddballs and artists from across Wales. Devised in 2022 as a provocation to explore ‘live-ness’ and performativity within the Welsh context, SCORE is a curious constellation of energies and aspirations, constantly reshaping and redefining the boundaries of its own creative expression. Central to the group’s method is a thirst for playfulness, collaboration, co-authorship, grit, tenderness, the ephemeral, and the ‘live’. Working together to perform in the face of the unknown’.

MYRIORAMA

10 Feb – 6 May 2024 Gallery 2, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
17 Mar 2-4pm. Artist talk with Alan Bowring, geologist and Geopark Officer.
Celebrating the bicentenary of the myriorama.

200 years ago J.H. Clark and S. Leigh created a game to tap into a new craze sweeping Europe.
Meaning ‘many views’, their Myriorama was a set of 16 illustrated cards that could be rearranged to create
a near-endless variety of cohesive scenes. Long before cinema this was seen as a fine amusement for all
the family. I use but subvert the Myriorama’s idealised picturesque aesthetic, combining and intermingling narratives, deliberately introducing elements of dissonance and misfit as a way of extending conversations
about how we perceive and value the land in a time of environmental crisis.

Gweld y wybodaeth yma yn Gymraeg ar-lein

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus SY23 3DE
Artist talk in the Round Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Free / am dim

A Private Land / Tir Diarffordd

Oct 28 – Oct 29 The Muse, Glamorgan St. Brecon.
Two day collaborative Art Lab to share narratives about the former Mid Wales Hospital.
With Susan Adams and guests. See A Private Land / Tir Diarffordd for full details of the weekend events and
the BLOG to read all about the project

Ymunwch â ni yn ystod ein labordy celf cydweithredol dros 2 ddiwrnod i weld, clywed a rhannu naratif newydd
am yr hen ysbyty a phobl sy’n gysylltiedig ag ef cyn iddo ddiflannu’n llwyr. Edrychwch ar y dolenni am yr holl fanylion.

SCORE

Experimental installation for SCORE: Space and Performative Practices at tactileBOSCH Lounge, Cardiff
‘an ongoing winter playground for performance artists or artists working with live elements to come
together and… allow things to happen.’

6 Jan and 2 Mar 2023 Made in honour of the bumper apple crop of 2022, with libations to the health
of the trees in 2023. Thanks to @abi_hubbard_creative for her impromptu performance, animating the
installation to waken the sleeping tree spirits and frighten off any evil demons that may be lurking in the branches https://vimeo.com/787291464

24 Mar 2023 My tiny contribution to the topsy turvy carnivalesque world of Wrath and Tempo
at SHIFT, Cardiff.

Generously hosted by @bethgreenhalgh. Check out @tactilebosch and @shiftcardiff  for more
documentation and participants. Thanks to Beth for the first photo.

Reframing the Past >> Emerging Futures

Aug 26-28 2022 Live streaming of the video Megan Arnold and I have made as part of this
international collaborative project with Elysium Gallery and IICSI 
Click on http://improvfest.ca/ to watch live.

After talking about the paths laid out for us, whether on the land or in our stars, we decided to follow
will o’ the wisps. Through a process of call and response we have exchanged video, performance, sound
and texts which have taken us both off the beaten track and into unfamiliar terrain. Guided by instinct,
embracing risk and open to accident we found ourselves playing in the margins between freedom and
restraint, gravity and absurdity. The Future of the Universe / Mae Dyfodol y Bydysawd is a karaoke-
inspired video that subverts ideas of pre-determined futures on a personal, global, and galactic level.

You can read the full lyrics here Lyric sheet

Elysium gallery in partnership with IICSI commissioned 6 artists from Canada and Wales to
work together, developing cross-Atlantic strategies to create critical and experimental new work online.
Through A series of monthly online artist discussions, we want to create an innovative platform for
creative collaborations that will evolve into developing ideas that will form part of Elysium’s contribution
to IICSI’s IF Improvisation Festivals in 2022. With Jonathan Powell, Stephen Donnelly and Daniel Trivedy.
This project is supported by Wales Arts International

Other selected artists are: Tricia Enns, Jessica Lerner, Andrew Maize & Euros Rowlands.