During Locator 33 we will return to Coetir Tycanol Woods, one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK.
How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and ancient beings? In attempting to notice and learn from these organisms and the places in which they thrive, to move as lichen is to combine our differences, to be together in ways that we couldn’t if alone, to make something complex, unusual, sustaining perhaps?
In this second workshop in a series we think about what it is to be symbionts, to imagine the self as a web of relations and to move together, live together accordingly. Lichens give us reasons to be cheerful…they embody communities of difference, they show us how to find support, their longevity gives us hope.
Lichen is a ‘figure for eternity and survival… the first explorer…’ Vincent Zonka (2023).
Locator is a transient/residential community workshop practice, immersed in Tycanol and other significant landscape ecosystems for the last 32 years. Through outdoor, immersive movement practice we collectively cultivate a sensory porosity to the influence of ‘more than human’ lives . In our movements we sensitise to their generous affect and make them familiar to us.
(For Becoming Lichen we will be joined by ecologist Yusef Samari.)
£300 including accommodation (10 places).
Please write to register your interest; first come, first served basis, your place secured by a £100 deposit.
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(Accommodation is in a 15th Century gatehouse ( Y Porthdy) on the edge of the woods; with beds, studio, kitchen and shower rooms).
Becoming Lichen – Dod yn Gen is a long term research project co-produced by Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown/ Drenewydd.
Also check out other Workshops in Newcastle Emlyn.
