Photo: Tudor Rhys Etchells ©
16th July, 12-5pm
On Hold: Durational Performance
Free, No need to book
Jack Moyse re-performs On Hold, an interactive performance, where the bureaucracies and incompetencies of PIP assessments are played out, inviting the public to assess how eligible they think they are or could be for this support.
This piece will be performed throughout office hours at Ffotogallery, with long breaks, and a long lunch, and whatever else the assessment officer at the Department for Workplace and Pensions decides. This piece was originally performed at the opening afternoon of A Sorry State.
23rd July, 6-8pm
TBC
30th July, 6-8pm
Gwaith: Jack Moyse in conversation with Abby Poulson & Tudor Rhys Etchells
Free, No need to book
Gwaith is a social and critical art platform based in Cardiff for early career artists, graduates and students in South Wales.
Moving among different host venues, Gwaith is about creating an open forum for conversation around contemporary art. It is a place to discuss the work and ideas of people who attend, as well as the work on show at the host venue. Come along to meet new people in a friendly informal environment. Free and open to all.
This session is hosted at Ffotogallery, with Jack Moyse in conversation with Abby Poulson and Tudor Rhys Etchells. Discussing the exhibition currently on display in the Project Space, A Sorry State
Jack Moyse (he/him, b. 1996) is a photographer and artist based in Swansea, South Wales. His practice focuses on societal issues including the demonisation of migrants, ableism and mental health. He has been invited to speak at a range of colleges, universities, photo festivals and symposia, including the University of South Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Swansea), Carmarthen School of Art, and the Trauma Porn Symposium in Bristol, supported by the Bristol Photography Research Group. He has also exhibited and contributed to the Healing Through Photography conference at Belfast Exposed.
Abby Poulson (she/her, b. 1998) is an artist, photographer, and curator from Carmarthenshire, based in Wales. Her artistic practice responds to narratives of the rural landscape, often rooted in the identity of place. Observing and contemplating infrastructural extraction, cultural heritage loss between the tangible and intangible, and how people’s relationships to land are continuously evolving and being reshaped. Through personal research and inquiry, she works across disciplines, combining lens-based media, analogue processes, and experimental or cameraless techniques.
Tudor Rhys Etchells ( he/him, b.1994, Cardiff) uses the photograph to challenge fictions created by legal systems. Working within such a bureaucracy in his previous role as a human rights lawyer inspires his closeness to the document and the brutally mundane. For him, the photographic medium, with its own cumbersome structures of viewing and representing, appears the best match for understanding processes that construct the imagined norms of our society. Embracing photography’s performative element, he deconstructs our conceptions of visual knowledge.
Curated by Rory Duckhouse.
In partnership with Ffotogallery and g39.