Tan â Llif – [sut i fynd] i mewn ac allan o’r cabinet: [how to get] into and out of the cabinet

I’m excited to announce that Carreg Creative, a new partnership between Lisa Hudson and I, has been commissioned by Oriel Celf Gyfoes Genedlaethol i Gymru/Wales Contemporary Art Gallery and Storiel, Bangor.

Dyma’r manylion - here are details, and an invitation to take part (March - April 2024):

Ar gyfer ein comisiwn, mae Carreg Creative (gyda Wanda Zyborska) yn gwahodd pobl greadigol lle mae eu hymarfer yn canolbwyntio ar gydweithio, proses ac ymgysylltu, i gymryd rhan mewn ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ (ar-lein/yn Storiel).

Bydd y ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ yn archwilio [sut i fynd] i mewn ac allan o'r cabinet. Sut gallai ein harfer ymgysylltiol fod yn berthnasol i oriel gelf gyfoes genedlaethol Cymru (gwefan Celf ar y Cyd) a chasgliad Storiel? Bydd y ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ hon ynddo’i hun yn rhan o, ac yn arwain at greu gwaith ar gyfer y cabinet a thu hwnt. Bydd rhan o'n gweithgarwch ar y cyd yn cynnwys gwahanol fathau o ddogfennaeth i [casglu? Cynrychioli? Gwneud yn weledol?] ac adlewyrchu ar natur a lleoliad y gelfyddyd ymgysylltiedig - sut mae'n amlygu neu gwireddu ei hun?

Mae Carreg Creative yn bartneriaeth sy’n dylunio, darparu a chefnogi ymarfer sy’n ymgysylltu’n gymdeithasol ac yn amgylcheddol er mwyn archwilio’r posibilrwydd o fyd mwy cysylltiedig.

Carreg Creative is a partnership that designs, delivers and supports socially and environmentally engaged practice in order to explore the possibility of a more connected world.

For our commission, Carreg Creative (with Wanda Zyborska) are inviting creatives whose practice focuses on collaboration, process and engagement* to take part in a ‘curious conversation’ (online/in Storiel). The conversation will explore [how to get] into and out of the cabinet. How could our engaged practice relate to the national contemporary art gallery for Wales (Celf ar y Cyd website) and Storiel’s collection?

Our starting point for our ‘curious conversation’ will be:

Tan â Llif (poster BECA) by Paul Davies in Storiel’s collection
Mappa Mundi by Paul Davies on Celf ar y Cyd website and Michael Iwanowski’s ‘Map according to You’ on Celf ar y Cyd

[*The ‘outside the gallery’ nature of engaged contemporary practice often results in artefacts/art works as a parallel strand of collaborative, embodied activity which encompasses conversation, performance, film, sound and installation. These are difficult to ‘contain’ or represent within a ‘cabinet’, whether the cabinet of a website (Celf ar y Cyd) or a physical cabinet (at Storiel) and even within the ‘cabinet’ of the art world as a whole.]