Un incontro di presentazione e riflessione sulla partecipazione del Galles alla prossima edizione si svolgerà il prossimo 15 Marzo al St
Fagans National History Museum a Cardiff.
Ecco il comunicato stampa:
Bedwyr
Williams and the Starry Messenger
An
Amateur Convention in Consideration of Wales in Venice
“If
you don’t mind I would like you to take a few moments and withdraw from this
communiqué and imagine yourselves as moles. I would like you to zone out, take
your fingertips away from the track-pad, breathe out and relax. Picture
yourselves as velvety pelted big-clawed moles. Your personalities and your
interests should remain unchanged. It’s you but as a clever mole with an
interest in visual art. In my head I’ve kitted you out in plain white t-shirts
and jeans but if you wish to customise your appearance, and as people of the
arts I guess that you will, then by all means do so.
Let’s
get out of here. We will be going down and then out. We tunnel briefly through
the concrete, which will be hard going for some of you but some of you stronger
ones can front the peloton for now to get us going.
Some
clay, rubble, the predictable cache of clay pipes with their snapped stems and
some dark and smelly organic material that is disconcertingly easy for you
to tunnel through that makes you panic and gag at the same time. I can’t tell
you what it is but you are soon through it.
After
an hour or so we surface in the back garden of a semi-detached house. The
evening air is cool and your keen noses pick up the smell of a supermarket some
500 yards away but we aren’t here for that.
I
have brought you to the garden of a keen amateur astronomer and if I can ask
you to turn towards the house, you will make him out in the kitchen window
drinking coffee, looking out into the night. The mug is a scaled-down replica
of a reflector telescope.
He
appears in silhouette to you, but you can tell that he is a middle-aged man.
We
are going to try and get into the house for a closer look. There is good
cover for you moles if you stick close to the flower beds but for your own
sakes please be quiet and let’s try not to trigger the security light.
If
you moles could pair up we will enter in through the slightly grubby cat flap.
I’m asking you to do this in twos so that you can exert enough pressure to open
the flap.
You
plop neatly onto the doormat and then congregate behind the bin, which in terms
of its shape is not dissimilar to a mole-sized observatory.
The
astronomer is stood in the window in a kind of half trance because he is
getting a buzz from seeing his observatory with a starry night above it. So
whilst he should be in there with his telescope, breathing through his nose
chomping on the eyepiece with his baggy eye he’s actually getting some pleasure
from looking at his hobby. The brochure he had thumbed for months showed a
scene not unlike this.
This
man is observing his observatory.”
In
anticipation of the 2013 Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice exhibition,
MOSTYN and Oriel Davies present a Pre-Venice Convention, Bedwyr
Williams and The Starry Messenger.
Contributors
include Dr. Haley Gomez, Cardiff University, who explores cosmic dust and
the secrets of the cosmos; amateur astronomer Moelwyn
Thomas considers astrophotography; artist Thomas Goddarddelves into
the archive of the Beast of Bala; Daryl Green, St Andrews University,
discusses Nasmyth and Carpenter’s 19th century book, The Moon Considered
as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite.
The
Convention will be followed by:
A
Starry Comedy Night, featuring Bedwyr Williams and guests
8pm
till late at Porter’s Cardiff, Cardiff City Centre, CF10 2FE
Bedwyr
Williams’s exhibition, The Starry Messenger, will show at
the Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Castello, Venice, 1 June–24
November 2013.
The
project is jointly curated by MOSTYN and Oriel Davies and
supported by Arts Council of Wales.
Bedwyr
Williams is represented by Ceri Hand Gallery, London
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