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