Aequus, 2024, Video Installation 14 minutes.

 

In Aequus, aerial scenes of dancers performing in an emptied lido pool at Craig y Don, Llandudno, are echoed by footage of performers in the Irish Sea. Drawing on future plans for a nineteen-mile tidal lagoon in north Wales, the work considers the history of lido pools in Wales, sites of communal joy and play whose histories are interwoven with extractive energy production – many were built by the miners’ welfare fund.

 

With a soundtrack composed of ocean waves transcribed and combined with field recordings and vocals, the film’s intricate choreographies narrate the complex entanglements at play in the drive toward greener energy solutions.

 

Aequus arose from the artist’s long-term interrogation of dichotomies between natural forces and manmade structures, and a desire to imagine new ways of synchronising our movements as we reimagine beyond immediate horizons.

 

The film was captured during the autumn equinox in Llandudno in 2022, with the support of the Future Wales Fellowship.

 

Screenings + Exhibition:

Screened at Centre for Alternative Centre for Technology 2023

Group exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery from November 2023 to March 2024.

Film screening for World Ocean Day at Pontio, Bangor 2024

Presented as a video sculpture in SYFRDANOL group show as part of IKT + Mostyn with Marie Jones, Jen Corr, Manon Awst, Lisa Carter Grist, Gwen Vaughan, Angela Davies, Ella Jones, Catrin Menai, Gethin Wyn Jones and Wendy Leah Dawson. The exhibition was curated by Rebecca Hardy-Griffith. More information here: SYFRDANOL

New iteration for public art commission and performance supported by Greenman Trust - more information here: Greenman

Film screening at Current New media, Sante fe, 2025

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Credits:

Dancers: Angharad Price Jones, Kseniia Fedorovykh, Lisa Spaull, Kate Lawrence, Louis George, Melissa Pasut

Sound produced and edited by Angela Davies

Filmed by Angela Davies, Joe Edwards, Ant Dickinson

Film Edited by Angela Davies, Mark Eaglen, Finn Black

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With special thanks to Arts Council of Wales and Natural Resources Wales, Centre for Alternative Technology, Glynn Vivian, Mostyn & IKT, Pontio, Greenman Trust

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Future Wales Fellows cohort of 2022, The school of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University, Sophie Ward, Nigel Prince, Anthony Shapland, Tracy Simpson, Lexi Stevens, Louise Hobson

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