Llinellau Llif Mapping Plas Bodfa is my latest collaborative lockdown production, and (given the times) suitably increasingly insane… and the most recent incarnation of Llif-Flow, an ongoing collaboration with Lisa Hudson (in which we often also work with Sioned Eleri Roberts, Rhys Trimble and Katherine Betteridge).
Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space, including multi-layered experiences and uses of Plas Bodfa, Llinellau Llif (Flow Forms) uses the rolling of marbles, ink and performance to map the temporality, universality and complexity of flow as a fundamental force in the ‘poetics of space’ within and around the house.
We are delighted that the results of our lockdown collaboration were published by Plas Bodfa today - see here
Plas Bodfa is a currently empty 100-year-old manor house on Anglsey, and 'Unus Multorum' was meant to have opened as a physical exhibition with projects, installations and artist multiples from 111 creative people. Transformed by the global pandemic, it has evolved into a time-less project, gently unfolding over the course of the year inside of Plas Bodfa and in the digital realm.
Our original concept for the Unus Multorum exhibition was to create a live mapping performance, with Lisa and I creating ‘scores’ which would be played live by musicians Sioned Eleri Roberts and Katherine Betteridge, and poet Rhys Trimble. The results would be available as a series of multiples for sale, displayed in an archive-format on a table in the old wash-room, with reference works on the wall.
Given Corvid-19, (lockdown starting literally on the day we were to be installing), we decided to experiment with how to take the performative element - Lisa and I physically mapping the house, and the flow of words and sounds (created by Rhys, Katherine and Sioned) in response to the scores created by our mapping - onto an online platform rather than as the originally planned live performance.
The result is a video and (unusually for us!) some works for sale via Plas Bodfa (‘Tight Spaces’, mapping a series of different corner angles in the house, shown below, £20 each).
Update: 2.9.20
We have made an installation of Plas Bodfa mapping, including the film, text and images. See them here
This week, I invited two artist friends to look at my collection of objects and fragments that I’ve dug from the garden. I wanted to know whether others would find something in them, even though they haven’t ‘discovered’ them themselves in the same way, in the sense of digging them up, but in discovering them in my ‘collection’ in the barn. Inspired by Rebecca Solnit, this is what I found out...