Crossed Paths : Sheep: Wales
- Submitting institution
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Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10164219
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Oriel Davies Gallery
- Open access status
- -
- Month of first exhibition
- April
- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Crossed Paths (2015-2020) is an extended practice-as-research project involving a multi-layered process of individual and collaborative investigation into upland farmed ecosystems and interspecies dynamics. Research in 2015-17 comprised of over 20 field visits to the Pumlumon Massif, Cambrian mountains; collecting over 4,000 minutes of footage from 15 GoPro cameras attached to Whall’s body during her 11 crawling performances; 8 audio recordings of conversations with artists in Spain, England and Wales; hundreds of hours of post-production; and a programme including a public exhibition and events series, a 104-page publication (containing a commissioned essay), documentary film, as well as eleven creative commissions.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Crossed Paths – Sheep is part of an extended practice-as-research project that engages a diverse range of artists and scholars concerned with ecology, conservation and science. Through a multi-layered process of individual and collaborative investigation into upland farmed ecosystems and interspecies dynamics, Whall’s conscious, meditative, economical and transformative socio-political practice explores ethical relationships to our land and environment from multiple perspectives to raise awareness of the rich biodiversity of mid-Wales and its importance as an environment both locally and globally.
The seemingly empty landscape of mid-Wales and the Cambrian mountains is not a grass desert. It is a rich mosaic of vegetation: improved pasture, moorland, woodland and peat bogs. The issue at stake is the balancing of these habitats within an integrated land management programme and the proposal by Summit to Sea for rewilding a corridor of the Cambrian Mountains, so that each species survives and flourishes.
Employing a range of artistic media including video and performance, Whall tells land-narratives through embodied experience to provide an artistic mode of inquiry into environmental issues. Her practice is an exploration of our need to develop a non-hierarchical, more ethical and complex relationship to our environment and our non-human others. Adopting the altered perspective of an animal/human/lens, Whall undertook a series of crawls through different bio-diverse environments, collecting extensive video footage from multiple GoPro cameras attached to her legs, arms, back, stomach, mouth, head and hands, which is then edited, synchronised and publicly presented.
The project was developed with partners including Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS) and collaborators ranging from scientists, writers, photographers and musicians. Outputs include a public exhibition, publication, documentary film, residency, a public programme of events (poetry readings, panel discussion and field trip) as well as creative commissions.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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