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EXPERIMENTICA14

05.11.14â&#x20AC;&#x201D;09.11.14

Tim Bromage, Gavin Krastin, Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe & Tracy Harris, Nathan Walker, GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Cian Donnelly, Sam Playford-Greenwell & Lucie Akerman, Phil Hession, Cathy Gordon, Dustin Harvey & Adrienne Wong with / gyda Zuppa Theatre, Mark Leahy, Threatmantics, SiÂn Robinson Davies, Eleanor Sikorski & Alberto Ruiz Soler, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Paul Hurley, OFF THE PAGE with / gyda Samuel Hasler, Andre Stitt, There There, Beth Greenhalgh & John Abell, Iwan ap Huw Morgan, Haranczak/Navarre, Lolo y Lauti, Florence Peake & Jonathan Baldock with / gyda Ian Watson, good cop bad cop, Rhodri Davies & Lina Lapelyte

05.11.14—09.11.14 Established in 2001, Experimentica is Chapter’s annual five-day Festival of live art. Experimentica hosts a dynamic programme of performance and interdisciplinary projects and offers a significant platform for UK and international artists to produce or introduce their work.

Cover image / Delwedd y clawr: Andre Stitt, Art is not a mirror it’s a fucking hammer, 1978 Inside cover image / Delwedd tu mewn y clawr: Mark Leahy, Answering Machine, 2014

05.11.14—09.11.14 The Festival can be entertaining, dangerous, confusing, life affirming, playful, provocative, witty, engaging, irritating and everything in between. This year’s Festival takes its title from the 2009 science fiction thriller District 9 (directed by Neill Blomkamp), a multi-layered allegory that explores our attitudes to outsiders. The title is not a theme but rather a starting point in which participants can explore how we co-exist.

Sefydlwyd Experimentica, gŵyl bum niwrnod flynyddol Chapter, yn 2001. Mae Experimentica yn cyflwyno rhaglen ddeinamig o gelfyddyd, perfformiadau a phrosiectau rhyngddisgyblaethol byw ac mae’n llwyfan pwysig sy’n caniatáu i artistiaid o Brydain ac o bedwar ban byd gynhyrchu neu gyflwyno eu gwaith.

Gall yr Ŵyl fod yn ddifyr, yn beryglus, yn ddryswch pur, yn wir bob gair, yn chwareus, yn bryfoclyd, yn ffraeth ac yn unrhyw beth arall dan haul. Daw teitl yr Ŵyl eleni o ffilm wyddonias 2009, ‘District 9’ (wedi’i chyfarwyddo gan Neill Blomkamp). Mae’r ffilm honno’n alegori amlhaenog sy’n archwilio ein hagweddau at estroniaid. Nid thema yw’r teitl fel y cyfryw ond man cychwyn sy’n galluogi i gyfranogwyr archwilio syniadau am gyd-fodolaeth.

THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL LOLO Y LAUTI: SELF-PORTRAIT SWEATSHOP

8 Duke street Arcade, 12–5pm Self-Portrait Sweatshop is a participatory work inside a shop in Cardiff. Participants have been hired to draw portraits of the artists. They are tied to a workstation in the basement of the shop for an hour. A tutorial video guides them through their shift. At the same time, Lolo y Lauti will run the front of the shop where the drawings will be for sale as self-portraits. www.loloylauti.com Supported by Cardiff Contemporary

good cop bad cop: OCCUPATION

Cardiff City Centre, 12–6pm So today the smell of burning tyres has finally shifted and the sounds of gunshot absent. The bank is back without a blackened facade and the snow drifts have dissolved. The barriers have moved and we can all go shopping. In the background, out of the frame and away from the lights, they wait for their scheduled appearance. They know what it is to kill time and have come prepared. They’re just going to follow the rules and then they will get paid. Keep their heads down. Make no eye contact. Don’t ask questions. Strictly no autographs. Any minute now. Hopefully get home on time. Last week victims of the flood. Yesterday, rampaging masses. Something to show the grandkids. But for now there’s nothing. There’s no one. They’re not there. It’s not happening. Nothing to see. Cue the animals. And... Action! Occupation... a ten letter word, starting with ‘O’ and ending with ‘n’. A series of invisible pieces to be found in the city that could be Cardiff by good cop bad cop. www.gcbccentral.com A Cardiff Contemporary commission

DRWY GYDOL YR ŴYL BETH GREENHALGH & JOHN ABELL MURDER BALLAD: AN ELEGY

CARDIFF CITY CENTRE, 12–5pm (Every artist has used a bath) The bathroom had remained ordinary. Without presence. The bathroom had been used for cleansing, clearing, thinking and excreting. A spider enters the bathroom. It clambers through a plughole. The spider moves through the bath: there is nothing to ruin here. The spider has thoughts of making something beautiful. Its imagination creeps and builds up slowly, Nothing is made. A girl enters the bathroom, she is aware of the spider; upon seeing it she moves it into a cupboard. She runs a bath and begins a conversation with the spider. She tells him: “Adding tomatoes to my bath will remove impurities from my skin and hair.” She talks. The spider listens, but is mostly uninterested and begins making a web. He continues making the web. The web is never ruined. johnabell.blogspot.co.uk intangiblestudio.co.uk/ipfc/beth-greenhalgh/

THERE THERE: TEXT HOME TO 78070

Popping up at Chapter and in Cardiff City Centre Text HOME to 78070 is inspired by the infamous Home Office campaign of 2013 and is a spoken word concept album. It has one goal: to help newcomers to the EU to integrate, assimilate and infiltrate into the UK as they advise about everything from marrying for money and subverting the NHS, to scamming your way to a work permit. An invaluable manual for urgent immigration advice, Text HOME will take over Experimentica and Cardiff when you least expect it! www.therethere.eu

LOLO Y LAUTI: SELF-PORTRAIT SWEATSHOP

8 ArcÊd Stryd y Dug 12–5pm Mae Self-Portrait Sweatshop yn waith cyfranogol wedi’i osod mewn siop yng Nghaerdydd. Cyflogwyd cyfranogwyr i greu portreadau o’r artistiaid. Maent yn gaeth i orsaf waith yn seler y siop am awr gyfan. Mae tiwtorial fideo yn eu tywys drwy eu gwaith. Ar yr un pryd, bydd Lolo y Lauti yn gyfrifol am flaen y siop, lle bydd y lluniau yn cael eu gwerthu fel hunan-bortreadau. www.loloylauti.com Gyda chefnogaeth Caerdydd Gyfoes

good cop bad cop: OCCUPATION

Canol Dinas Caerdydd 12–6pm Mae arogl y teiars llosg wedi diflannu o’r diwedd ac mae ergydion y gynnau wedi tewi. Does yna ddim façade du gan y banc mwyach ac mae’r eira wedi toddi. Mae’r rhwystrau wedi eu codi a gallwn fynd eto bob un i siopa. Yn y cefndir, allan o’r ffrâm ac ymhell o’r goleuadau, maent yn aros i wneud eu hymddangosiad. Maent yn gwybod sut mae lladd amser ac maen nhw wedi paratoi. Maen nhw’n mynd i ddilyn y rheolau ac yna fe gânt eu talu. Cadw eu pennau i lawr. Osgoi edrych i fyw llygaid unrhyw un. Ymatal rhag gofyn cwestiynau. Dim llofnodion. Unrhyw funud nawr. Cyrraedd adref ar amser gydag ychydig o lwc. Yr wythnos ddiwethaf, roeddent yn ddioddefwyr llifogydd. Ddoe, yn dyrfa wyllt. Rhywbeth i ddangos i’r wyrion a’r wyresau. Ond, am y tro, does yna ddim byd. Does yna neb i’w weld. Dydyn nhw ddim yno. Does dim yn digwydd. Does yna ddim byd i’w weld. Anifeiliaid yn barod ... “Action”! ‘Occupation’ ... gair deg llythyren sy’n dechrau ag ‘O’ ac yn gorffen ag ‘n’. Cyfres o ddarnau anweledig i chi ddod o hyd iddynt mewn dinas nid annhebyg i Gaerdydd gan cop cop bad cop. www.gcbccentral.com Comisiynwyd gan Gaerdydd Gyfoes

BETH GREENHALGH & JOHN ABELL MURDER BALLAD: AN ELEGY

CANOL DINAS CAERDYDD, 12-5PM (Mae pob artist wedi defnyddio bath) Mae’r ystafell ymolchi yn ddigon cyffredin o hyd. Yn wag. Cafodd yr ystafell ymolchi ei defnyddio ar gyfer glanhau, clirio, meddwl ac ysgarthu. Mae pry cop yn mynd i mewn i’r ystafell ymolchi. Mae’n dringo i mewn drwy ddraen. Mae’r pry cop yn symud drwy’r bath: does yna ddim byd i’w ddifetha fan hyn. Mae’r pry cop yn awyddus i greu rhywbeth hardd. Mae ei ddychymyg yn datblygu’n raddol. ‘Chaiff dim byd ei greu. Mae merch yn mynd i mewn i’r ystafell ymolchi. Mae hi’n ymwybodol o’r pry cop; ar ôl ei weld, mae hi’n ei osod mewn cwpwrdd. Mae hi’n rhedeg bath ac yn dechrau sgwrs gyda’r pry cop. Mae hi’n dweud wrtho: “Bydd ychwanegu tomatos at ddŵr fy math yn gwaredu’r amhureddau o’m croen a’m gwallt.” Mae hi’n siarad. Mae’r pry cop yn gwrando, ond does dim llawer o ddiddordeb ganddo ac mae’n bwrw ‘mlaen â chreu gwe. Mae e’n parhau i nyddu ei we. Ni chaiff y we ei difetha. johnabell.blogspot.co.uk intangiblestudio.co.uk/ipfc/beth-greenhalgh/

THERE THERE: TEXT HOME TO 78070

Chapter a Chanol Dinas Caerdydd Ysbrydolwyd ‘Text HOME to 78070’ gan ymgyrch ddrwg-enwog y Swyddfa Gartref yn 2013 ac mae’n ‘albwm cysyniad’ llafar. Un nod sydd i’r gwaith: helpu newydd-ddyfodiaid i’r UE i integreiddio, i gymhathu ac i ymdreiddio i’r DU gan gynnig cyngor iddynt ar bynciau fel priodi am arian, gwyrdroi’r GIG a sgamio trwydded waith. Llawlyfr amhrisiadwy yn llawn cynghorion brys ar sut i fewnfudo; bydd Text HOME yn meddiannu Experimentica a Chaerdydd mewn ffyrdd hollol annisgwyl! www.therethere.eu

Images clockwise from top / Delweddau gyda’r cloc o’r brig: good cop bad cop, OCCUPATION, 2014; Beth Greenhalgh; There There, Text HOME to 78070. Photo/Llun: Patricia Venancio Oliveira

WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER MATT BALL, JUSTIN CLIFFE & TRACY HARRIS: BOTTLED

MEDIA POINT, 6PM Ever been to a wedding where the best man’s speech went too far? A funeral where the eulogy told the truth, the whole truth or anything but the truth? Did you ever reply on twitter and regret it immediately? Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe and Tracy Harris have been collecting stories, writing eulogies, making speeches and not apologising. They’ve been getting competitive, drinking milk and dancing to Kelis. Join them for an evening of home truths, toasts, confessions & explosions. Dress code: inappropriate! Performed by Justin Cliffe & Tracy Harris. Directed by Matt Ball www.mattball.me Supported by the Arts Council of Wales Developed through WalesLab, National Theatre Wales artist development initiative, with support from Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Chapter Arts Centre.

Dydd Mercher 5 Tachwedd Rhodri Davies & Lina Lapelyte

STIWDIO, 7PM Rhodri and Lina are both members of the Common Objects collective and collaborate together for special occasions. They first met on stage at the Cut and Splice festival playing Stockhausen at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2008. In 2010 they came together for the ’Oceans of Silver and Blood & the New String Theory’ performances at HCMF, The Sonic Arts Research Centre and Le Weekend. Most recently they performed together in 2012 at the Albert Hall for the BBC Prom 47: John Cage Centenary Celebration. www.linalapelyte.com www.rhodridavies.com

TIM BROMAGE: THE ODYSSEY

THEATRE, 9PM Tim Bromage presents a loose interpretation of Homer’s epic poem, adapted for the stage with sound by Jon Ruddick and video by Kusa. vimeo.com/97986683 Supported by the Arts Council of Wales

MATT BALL, JUSTIN CLIFFE & TRACY HARRIS: BOTTLED

PWYNT CYFRYNGOL, 6PM Ydych chi erioed wedi bod i briodas a chlywed araith gan y gwas priodas a aeth yn rhy bell? Angladd lle roedd pob teyrnged yn cynnwys y gwir, yr holl wir a dim ond y gwir? Ydych chi erioed wedi ymateb ar Twitter a difaru gwneud ar unwaith? Bu Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe a Tracy Harris wrthi’n casglu straeon, yn ysgrifennu teyrngedau ac yn gwneud areithiau heb ymddiheuro. Maen nhw wedi bod yn cystadlu, yn yfed llaeth ac yn dawnsio i Kelis. Ymunwch â nhw am noson o wirioneddau, llwnc-destunau, cyffesion a ffrwydradau. Cod gwisg: amhriodol! Perfformiad gan Justin Cliffe & Tracy Harris. Cyfarwyddo gan Matt Ball www.mattball.me Gyda chefnogaeth Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru Wedi’i ddatblygu drwy WalesLab, menter datblygu artistiaid National Theatre Wales, gyda chefnogaeth gan Ganolfan Gelfyddydau Aberystwyth a Chapter

RHODRI DAVIES & LINA LAPELYTE

STIWDIO, 7PM Mae Rhodri a Lina ill dau yn aelodau o grŵp Common Objectives ac yn cydweithio gyda’i gilydd ar achlysuron arbennig. Fe chwaraeon nhw gyda’i gilydd am y tro cyntaf yn 2008 darn gan Stockhausen ar lwyfan yng ngŵyl Cut & Splice yn Neuadd Gerdd Wilton. Yn 2010, daethant at ei gilydd ar gyfer perfformiadau o ‘Oceans of Silver and Blood’ a ‘The New String Theory’ yn HCMF, Canolfan Ymchwil y Celfyddydau Sonig a Le Weekend. Yn 2012, fe berfformion nhw gyda’i gilydd yn rhan o Prom 47 y BBC yn y Royal Albert Hall. Roedd y gyngerdd honno’n ddathliad o Ganmlwyddiant John Cage. www.linalapelyte.com www.rhodridavies.com

TIM BROMAGE: THE ODYSSEY

THEATR, 9PM Bydd Tim Bromage yn cyflwyno dehongliad llac o gerdd epig Homer, wedi’i haddasu ar gyfer y llwyfan gyda sain gan Jon Ruddick a fideo gan Kusa. vimeo.com/97986683 Gyda chefnogaeth Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru

Images from top / Delweddau o’r brig: Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe & Tracy Harris, Bottled, 2014; Tim Bromage, The Odyssey, 2014. Photo / Llun: Kusa

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER NATHAN WALKER: S C A W

COMMON ROOM, 12–8PM S C A W is an eight-hour install-action exploring unsighted automatic writing, circular actions and permutational mouthings. Following a score of a pre-recorded spoken text, generated through computational chance procedures, the work superimposes the private performance of reading onto the public performance of writing. Writing occurs in S C A W through the body and appears as graphic, visual, phonic and sonic actions. www.nathan-walker.co.uk

LUCIE AKERMAN & SAMUEL PLAYFORDGREENWELL: TOWARDS A CAVENDISH GROUP SIGIL

MEDIA POINT, 6PM Following a fictional internet-based banana cult, the Cavendish Group — named after the banana — the group derive much of their structure and cosmological beliefs from the banana plant itself. Using a combination of improvised conversation, ritualised incantation and banana-related props and imagery, the performance will take in diverse subjects, from the notion of ‘Radical Chic’ and the ideology of style, to ventriloquism and demonic possession; from the affective quality of wallpaper, to Hegel’s notion of the ‘end of history’. samplayfordgreenwell.wordpress.com

Dydd Iau 6 Tachwedd CIAN DONNELLY: BLEACH BOX

STIWDIO, 7PM Bleach Box is an experimental performance, structured as a series of vignettes that move between poetic narrative, experimental pop, and hallucinatory entertainment. An intensely visual and aural experience, Bleach Box stages the self as a psychosexual ghost story. www.ciandonnelly.com

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN: NUMBER 1, THE PLAZA

THEATRE, 9PM Red front door. Gold number 1. Tiny peephole. Take a look around. GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN want to open up and let you in. Right in. So you can really get a feeling for what it’s like on the inside. This is an ‘evening with’ — conversation, songs, shit like that. Someone’s left a passive aggressive note on the kitchen table; it’s about entitlement, property and privacy. Welcome to the show home, everyone. Conceived and devised by the company. Performed by Lucy McCormick and Jennifer Pick. Directed by Hester Chillingworth. Co-produced by PACT Zollverein (Essen), Colchester Arts Centre and Cambridge Junction. Supported by Arts Council England, wpZimmer, Antwerp, Almeida Theatre, London, The Performance Centre, Falmouth, The Point, Eastleigh, Cambridge Junction, Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate, New Wolsey, Ipswich, Roehampton University, London. www.getinthebackofthevan.com

NATHAN WALKER: S C A W

YSTAFELL GYFFREDIN, 12–8PM Mae S C A W yn osodiad gweithredol wyth awr o hyd sy’n archwilio ysgrifennu awtomatig, gweithredoedd cylchol a llefaru. Yn dilyn sgôr o destun llafar wedi’i recordio ymlaen llaw ac a gynhyrchwyd â chyfres o weithrediadau cyfrifiadurol ar hap, mae’r gwaith yn arosod syniad o ddarllen fel perfformiad preifat ar syniad o ysgrifennu fel gweithred gyhoeddus. Mae ‘ysgrifennu’ yn S C A W yn digwydd drwy’r corff ac yn ymddangos ar ffurf gweithredoedd graffig, gweledol, ffonig a sonig. www.nathan-walker.co.uk

LUCIE AKERMAN & SAMUEL PLAYFORDGREENWELL: TOWARDS A CAVENDISH GROUP SIGIL

PWYNT CYFRYNGOL, 6PM Gan ddilyn cwlt ar-lein sy’n seiliedig ar fananas, mae Grŵp Cavendish — a enwyd ar ôl math o fanana — yn tynnu rhan helaeth o’u strwythur a’u credoau cosmolegol o’r planhigyn banana ei hun. Trwy gyfuniad o sgwrsio byrfyfyr, llafarganu defodol a phropiau a delweddaeth yn ymwneud â bananas, bydd y perfformiad yn trafod pynciau amrywiol, o’r syniad o ‘Radical Chic’ ac ideoleg arddull, i daflu’r llais a meddiant gan ddiafoliaid; o nodweddion affeithiol (‘affective’) papur wal, i syniadau Hegel am ‘ddiwedd hanes’. samplayfordgreenwell.wordpress.com

CIAN DONNELLY: BLEACH BOX

STIWDIO, 7PM Mae Bleach Box yn berfformiad arbrofol, wedi’i strwythuro fel cyfres o vignettes sy’n pendilio rhwng naratif barddonol, pop arbrofol ac adloniant rhith-weledol. Mae Bleach Box yn brofiad gweledol a chlywedol dwys ac yn llwyfannu’r hunan fel rhyw fath o stori ysbryd seicorywiol. www.ciandonnelly.com

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN: NUMBER 1, THE PLAZA

THEATR, 9PM Drws ffrynt coch. Rhif 1 euraid. Twll pipio pitw. Edrychwch o’ch cwmpas. Mae GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN yn awyddus i agor y drysau a’ch gadael chi i mewn. Yr holl ffordd i mewn. Fel y gallwch chi gael profiad go iawn o’r hyn sydd yno. Mae hon yn ‘Noson yng nghwmni’ — sgwrsio, canu, yr holl shit yna. Mae rhywun wedi gadael nodyn ‘passive-aggressive’ ar fwrdd y gegin; mae’n sôn am hawliau, eiddo a phreifatrwydd. Croeso i’r sioe, gyfeillion. Crëwyd a dyfeisiwyd y sioe gan y cwmni. Perfformiad gan Lucy McCormick a Jennifer Pick. Cyfarwyddo gan Hester Chillingworth. Cyd-gynhyrchiad gan PACT Zollverein (Essen), Canolfan y Celfyddydau Colchester a Cambridge Junction. Gyda chefnogaeth Cyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr, wpZimmer, Antwerp, Theatr Almeida, Llundain, Y Ganolfan Berfformio, Falmouth, The Point, Eastleigh, Cambridge Junction, Theatr Tom Thumb, Margate, New Wolsey, Ipswich, Prifysgol Roehampton, Llundain. www.getinthebackofthevan.com

Clockwise from left / Gyda’r cloc o’r chwith: Cian Donnelly, The Natural Script, Live Works Performance Act Award, Italy 2014; GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Number 1, The Plaza. Photo / Llun: Ludovic des Cognets; Nathan Walker, S C A W. Photo / Llun: Marco Berardi

Experimentica14 05.11.14—09.11.14 CO-Existence has never been easy THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL Artists’ Resource

Caffi Bar Daily

Cian Donnelly: Bleachbox

They Live

<GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN:

<Threatmantics: The

Theatre 9pm

THEATRE 9.30pm

Stiwdio 7pm

Number 1 The Plaza

<Lolo y Lauti:

Self-Portrait Sweatshop

8 Duke Street Arcade 12–5pm

good cop bad cop: OCCUPATION

Cardiff City Centre 12–6pm

<Beth Greenhalgh & John Abell

CARDIFF CITY CENTRE 12–5PM

THERE THERE: TEXT HOME TO 78070

CHAPTER AND CARDIFF CITY CENTRE DAILY

FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER

Cinema 8pm

Ballad of Shotgun Billy

Iwan ap Huw Morgan: The Myth of the Urban Shaman CHAPTER 11PM

<Mark Leahy: Answering Machine

SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER

Cinema 12pm

Cathy Gordon: Hammer Common Room 2pm

<Adrienne Wong & Dustin Harvey: Landline

Cwtch 3–6.45pm

<Andre Stitt:

Performing Political Acts

Cinema 12pm

PAUL Hurley: I Fall To Pieces Common Room 2-6pm

Phil Hession: A Version of Barbara Allen

<Village of the Damned

District 9

Altered States

Cinema 2.30pm

Cinema 6pm

Adrienne Wong & Dustin Harvey: Landline

<Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe

<Haranczak / Navarre:

<OFF THE PAGE: Curated by

Media Point 6pm

Theatre 9pm

Media Point 4pm

WEDNESDAY 5 November

& Tracy Harris: Bottled

Rhodri Davies & Lina Lapelyte Stiwdio 7pm

<Tim Bromage: The Odyssey Theatre 9pm

Stiwdio 6pm

Control Signal

<Nathan Walker: S C A W Common Room 12-8pm

<Lucie Ackerman & Samuel Playford-Greenwell: Towards a Cavendish Group Sigil

Media Point 6pm

Liquid Sky

Cinema 6.30pm

Cwtch 3–6.45pm

Samuel Hasler

Solaris + Tinted Lens SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER

Cinema 5pm

<Florence Peake & <Gavin Krastin: Rough Musick

Common Room 12pm

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER

CINEMA 2.30pm

Jonathan Baldock with Ian Watson: Apparition of the Phantom Limbs

Stiwdio 7pm

Karen Mirza & Brad Butler: The Exception and the Rule Temple of Peace 2pm

Adrienne Wong & Dustin Harvey: Landline Cwtch 3–6.45pm

<SiÂn Robinson Davies: Assumptions

STIWDIO 5pm

<Alberto Ruiz Soler & Eleanor SIkorskI

STIWDIO 8pm

TICKET INFORMATION 5-day Festival Pass: £25 1-day pass: £10 Individual event ticket: £5 Booking +44 (0)29 2030 4400 www.chapter.org

TRWY GYDOL YR ŴYL

<Cian Donnelly: Bleachbox

Stiwdio 7pm

Adnodd I Artistiaid

Caffi Bar Dyddiol

Lolo y Lauti: Self-Portrait Sweatshop 8 Arcêd Stryd y Dug 12–5pm

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN: Number 1 The Plaza Theatr 9pm

DYDD GWENER 7 TACHWEDD

<good cop bad cop: OCCUPATION

Canol Dinas Caerdydd 12–6pm

Mark Leahy: Answering Machine

They Live Sinema 8pm

Threatmantics: The Ballad of Shotgun Billy THEATR 9.30pm

<Iwan ap Huw Morgan: The Myth of the Urban Shaman

CHAPTER 11PM

DYDD SUL 9 TACHWEDD

Sinema 12pm

<Andre Stitt:

CANOL DINAS CAERDYDD 12–5PM

<Cathy Gordon: Hammer

Sinema 12pm

THERE THERE: TEXT HOME TO 78070

<Adrienne Wong & Dustin

PAUL Hurley: I Fall To Pieces

<Beth Greenhalgh & John Abell

CHAPTER A CHANOL DINAS CAERDYDD Dyddiol

DYDD MERCHER 5 Tachwedd

Ystafell Gyffredin 2pm

Harvey: Landline

Cwtch 3–6.45pm

Phil Hession: A Version of Barbara Allen Stiwdio 6pm

District 9

Sinema 2.30pm

<Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe & Tracy Harris: Bottled

Pwynt Cyfryngol 6pm

Rhodri Davies & Lina Lapelyte Stwidio 7pm

<Tim Bromage: The Odyssey Theatr 9pm

Altered States

Ystafell Gyffredin 2–6pm

<Village of the Damned SINEMA 2.30pm

Adrienne Wong & Dustin Harvey: Landline Cwtch 3–6.45pm

Sinema 6pm

<Haranczak / Navarre: Control Signal

Theatr 9pm

OFF THE PAGE: WEDI’I GURADU GAN Samuel Hasler Pwynt Cyfryngol 4pm

<Solaris + Tinted Lens Sinema 5pm

DYDD SADWRN 8 TACHWEDD

<Gavin Krastin: Rough Musick

DYDD IAU 6 TACHWEDD

Performing Political Acts

Ystafell Gyffredin 12pm

<Florence Peake &

Jonathan Baldock GYDA Ian Watson: Apparition of the Phantom Limbs

Stiwdio 7pm

<Karen Mirza & Brad <Nathan Walker: S C A W

Butler: The Exception and the Rule

Ystafell Gyffredin 12–8pm

Y Deml Heddwch 2pm

Lucie Ackerman & Samuel Playford-Greenwell: Towards a Cavendish Group Sigil

Adrienne Wong & Dustin Harvey: Landline

Pwynt Cyfryngol 6pm

<Liquid Sky Sinema 6.30pm

Cwtch 3–6.45pm

SiÂn Robinson Davies: Assumptions STIWDIO 5pm

Alberto Ruiz Soler & Eleanor SIkorskI STIWDIO 8pm

GWYBODAETH AM DOCYNNAU PÁs Gŵyl 5 niwrnod: £25 PÁs 1 dydd: £10 Tocynnau i ddigwyddiadau unigol: £5 Archebu +44 (0)29 2030 4400 www.chapter.org

FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER MARK LEAHY: ANSWERING MACHINE

CINEMA, 12PM Our words are not only our own, in some way they are always already others’, always already used. We are subject to controls or forces outside or beyond ourselves, and we function in language that both is and is not ours. Answering Machine places the performer at the mercy of the audience or participants, as they determine what he says. Participants will be invited to text or tweet a question, instruction, or statement to the performer. Using an online search engine and text-to-speech software this will be converted to an audio stream that will be delivered to the performer via headphones from which he will then attempt to speak as much of the material as he can. New input displaces the question being responded to; a conversation develops. Struggling to answer, the performer is a mix of oracle and puppet. Operated by the participants who contribute their offerings. His stammers and sputters elicit further prompts from the listeners as he is turned into an automated speaker. www.markleahy.net

CATHY GORDON: HAMMER THE HISTORY OF CATHY GORDON’S ANGER — SIX STRATEGIES FOR SUBLIMATION

COMMON ROOM, 2PM Interweaving personal facts and fictions, HAMMER offers ‘processing techniques’ for rage while exploring compliance, feminism, and social responsibility. The audience starts at a safe distance and then slowly succumbs to a final act of trust. www.cathygordon.com

ADRIENNE WONG & DUSTIN HARVEY: LANDLINE CARDIFF TO HALIFAX

CWTCH, 3–6.45PM Landline is a shared experience for two people on opposite sides of the country. The piece uses city streets, cell phone technology and poetic suggestion to engage audience members in a game of unlikely rendezvous. Inspired by the playful idea of drifting around urban environments, Landline was created to make the city come alive through audience interaction. By establishing a carefully choreographed sequence of events, the project encourages people to become performers in an imaginary play, while creating an atmosphere of quiet contemplation. The artists are experimenting with strategies to allow audience members to assume the roles of both viewer and performer. LANDLINE: Cardiff to Halifax created by Dustin Harvey and Adrienne Wong produced by Neworld Theatre and Secret Theatre co presented with Zuppa Theatre 4,419km away in Halifax, Nova Scotia. www.dustinharvey.com

Dydd Gwener 7 Tachwedd PHIL HESSION: A VERSION OF BARBARA ALLEN

STIWDIO, 6PM Phil Hession uses a self-built record cutting lathe, live song and YouTube videos to create a mash-up of the traditional ballad ‘Barbara Allen’. Phil takes on the dual roles of performer and archivist, layering sound and visuals in a performance that draws comparisons between oral song tradition and the open source nature of YouTube performances. www.philhession.com

HARANCZAK/NAVARRE PERFORMANCE PROJECTS: CONTROL SIGNAL — A DUET BY KAREN CHRISTOPHER & SOPHIE GRODIN

THEATRE, 9PM Control Signal explores invisible influences and the inexplicable connections we feel but fail to acknowledge. It explores our irresistible urge to impose our will upon our immediate surroundings; upon nature. We are tied to each other, to objects we hold dear, to ideas. We are moved: we are pulled toward and we are pushed away. Following lines of electricity through the body, through the air, and through history this show looks at the long and the short distances electricity travels and how humans have used it as a measure of control. We send a ripple with a facial expression. We move the air. We lean. We push. We fall silent. We look at each other or we don’t look at each other. We make a plea. And, in order to bridge the internal and the external, in order to blur boundaries and induce perplexity, in order to undermine stable forms, in order to show the effect of invisible forces, we introduce an uncontrollable vibration. Sound design by Boris Hauf Dramaturgy by Lito Walkey Lighting Design and Production Management by Martin Langthorne www.haranczaknavarre.co.uk Control Signal is a FLINT commission. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Images left to right / Delweddau o’r chwith i’r dde: Dustin Harvey & Adrienne Wong, LANDLINE; Control Signal by Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin. Photo / Llun: Jemima Yong

MARK LEAHY: ANSWERING MACHINE

SINEMA, 12PM Nid yn unig y mae ein geiriau yn perthyn i ni ein hunain, maent hefyd yn perthyn eisoes, mewn rhyw ffordd, i eraill; maen nhw eisoes wedi cael eu defnyddio. Rydym yn ddarostyngedig i reolau neu rymoedd y tu hwnt i ni ein hunain; rydym yn defnyddio iaith ac yn bodoli mewn iaith sydd yn perthyn i ni heb fod yn perthyn i ni chwaith. Mae Answering Machine yn gosod y perfformiwr ar drugaredd y gynulleidfa neu’r cyfranogwyr, wrth iddyn nhw benderfynu beth y dylai ddweud. Gwahoddir cyfranogwyr i decstio neu drydar cwestiwn, cyfarwyddyd neu ddatganiad i’r perfformiwr. Gyda chymorth peiriant chwilio ar-lein a meddalwedd testun-i-leferydd, bydd y testun hwn yn cael ei drawsnewid yn llif sain a chwaraeir i’r perfformiwr drwy glustffonau. Bydd ef, yn ei dro, yn ceisio llefaru cymaint o’r deunydd ag y gall. Daw deunydd newydd i ddisodli’r cwestiwn sy’n cael ei ateb a thrwy hynny, bydd sgwrs yn datblygu. Wrth iddo wneud ei orau i ateb, bydd y perfformiwr yn gyfuniad o oracl a phyped. Ac yn cael ei weithredu gan y cyfranogwyr eu hunain. Bydd ei fytheiriadau yn arwain at awgrymiadau pellach gan y gwrandawyr, wrth i’r perfformiwr druan gael ei droi’n beiriant siarad awtomatig. www.markleahy.net

CATHY GORDON: HAMMER THE HISTORY OF CATHY GORDON’S ANGER — SIX STRATEGIES FOR SUBLIMATION

YSTAFELL GYFFREDIN, 2PM Yn gydblethiad o ffeithiau a ffuglen bersonol, mae HAMMER yn cynnig ‘technegau ar gyfer prosesu dicter’ ac yn archwiliad o gydymffurfiaeth, ffeministiaeth a chyfrifoldeb cymdeithasol. Ar y cychwyn, mae’r gynulleidfa yn ddiogel ac yn ddigon pell o’r digwydd ond, o dipyn i beth, maent yn idlio i un weithred dyngedfennol o ymddiriedaeth. www.cathygordon.com

ADRIENNE WONG & DUSTIN HARVEY: LANDLINE CARDIFF TO HALIFAX

Cwtch, 3–6.45PM Mae Landline yn brofiad ar y cyd i ddau berson mewn gwahanol rannau o’r wlad. Mae’r darn yn defnyddio strydoedd dinesig, technoleg symudol ac awgrymiadau barddonol i gynnwys aelodau’r gynulleidfa mewn gêm o gyfarfyddiadau annhebygol. Wedi’i ysbrydoli gan y syniad chwareus o ddrifftio ar hyd ac ar led dinas, crëwyd Landline er mwyn rhoi bywyd i’r ddinas trwy gyfrwng rhyngweithio â’r gynulleidfa. Drwy sefydlu dilyniant gofalus o ddigwyddiadau, mae’r prosiect yn annog pobl i fod yn berfformwyr mewn drama ddychmygol, a chreu awyrgylch o fyfyrdod tawel. Mae’r artistiaid yn arbrofi gyda strategaethau a fydd yn caniatáu i aelodau’r gynulleidfa chwarae rhan y gwyliwr a’r perfformiwr fel ei gilydd. Crëwyd LANDLINE: Cardiff to Halifax gan Dustin Harvey ac Adrienne Wong. Cynhyrchwyd gan Neworld Theatre a Secret Theatre. Cynhyrchwyd ar y cyd â Zuppa Theatre, 4,419km i ffwrdd, yn Halifax, Nova Scotia. www.dustinharvey.com

PHIL HESSION: A VERSION OF BARBARA ALLEN

STIWDIO, 6PM Mae Phil Hession yn defnyddio ‘lathe’ torri recordiau yr adeiladodd ei hun, canu byw a fideos YouTube i greu ‘mash-up’ o’r faled draddodiadol, ‘Barbara Allen’. Mae Phil yn cymryd arno rolau deuol y perfformiwr a’r archifydd ac yn creu haenau o sain a delweddau mewn perfformiad sy’n cymharu traddodiadau llafar â natur agored ac answyddogol perfformiadau YouTube. www.philhession.com

HARANCZAK/NAVARRE PERFORMANCE PROJECTS: CONTROL SIGNAL — DEUAWD GAN KAREN CHRISTOPHER & SOPHIE GRODIN THEATR, 9PM Mae Control Signal yn archwilio dylanwadau anweledig a’r cysylltiadau anesboniadwy y teimlwn weithiau heb allu eu hesbonio na hyd yn oed eu cydnabod. Mae’n archwilio ein hysfa anorchfygol i arosod ein hewyllys ar y byd o’n cwmpas ac ar fyd natur. Rydym ynghlwm wrth ein gilydd, ac wedi’n clymu at wrthrychau a syniadau sy’n annwyl i ni. Cawn ein symud: ein tynnu tuag at bethau a’n gwthio ymaith. Mae’r sioe yn dilyn hynt llinellau trydanol drwy’r corff, drwy’r awyr a thrwy hanes. Mae’n edrych ar deithiau byrion a hirion trydan a’r modd y cafodd ei ddefnyddio gan fodau dynol fel math o reolaeth. Mae crych yn ei fynegi’i hun ar wyneb. Rydym yn symud yr awyr. Rydym yn pwyso. Rydym yn gwthio. Rydym yn ymdawelu. Rydym yn edrych ar ein gilydd, neu beidio. Rydym yn pledio. Ac, er mwyn pontio rhwng y mewnol a’r allanol, er mwyn cymylu’r ffiniau a chymell dryswch, er mwyn tanseilio ffurfiau sefydlog, er mwyn dangos effeithiau grymoedd anweledig, rydym yn cyflwyno dirgryniad afreolus. Sain — Boris Hauf Dramayddiaeth — Lito Walkey Rheolwr y Cynhyrchiad a Goleuo — Martin Langthorne www.haranczaknavarre.co.uk Comisiynwyd Control Signal gan FLINT. Gyda chefnogaeth gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr.

SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER GAVIN KRASTIN: ROUGH MUSICK

COMMON ROOM, 12PM The practice of ‘Rough Music’ originated in the small villages of medieval England as a means for the public to disgrace and humiliate petty criminals, sexual deviants and ‘others’. Strangely carnivalesque, this public shaming involved the creation of a brutal cacophony of sound and the public would direct this barrage of sound at the chosen individual like a weapon. Fundamentally the public were the ‘Rough Music’. Inspired by these early practices, Gavin Krastin has created a contemporary re-engaging with these dark rituals of exile. A visual and visceral experience unfolds through the brazen clashing of images and activities sourced from Gaelic folklore, Welsh ‘sin eating’ ceremonies, ‘bogey man’ mythologies and psycho-sexual fetish role-playing games. Spectators of this ritual are invited to participate in its unfolding and to become implicit in the dark demonstrations and fantasies. Created by Gavin Krastin Performed by Gavin Krastin and Alan Parker Original sound by Shaun Acker www.gavinkrastin.com Rough Musick was originally commissioned for and by the National Arts Festival, South Africa in 2013. Organised as part of The South African Season in the UK 2014 & 2015. The SA-UK Seasons is a partnership between The Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa and the British Council.

KAREN MIRZA AND BRAD BUTLER: THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE

TEMPLE OF PEACE, CARDIFF CITY CENTRE, 2PM Mirza and Butler have collaborated with local Cardiff residents to workshop and stage one of Bertolt Brecht’s short ‘learning plays’ ‘The Exception and the Rule’. The ‘rule’ implies a legal language or a directive, while the ‘exception’ evokes being ungovernable or searching for an alternative to either the state or the free market. Together, they act as both a statement that ‘the rule cannot exist without the exception, and a question as to what a state of exception might be. Mirza and Butler encourage you to enter into the project with the spirit of mutual enrichment and collaboration, where personal experiences/ expertise and collective interpretation ultimately converge in the public presentation of the play. www.mirza-butler.net An Artes Mundi 6 commission supported by CHAPTER

Dydd Sadwrn 8 Tachwedd ADRIENNE WONG & DUSTIN HARVEY: LANDLINE CARDIFF TO HALIFAX CWTCH,3–6.45PM See Friday for details

SIÂN ROBINSON DAVIES: ASSUMPTIONS STIWDIO, 5PM We’re going to start with some assumptions, because that’s where we always start. However, we will try to get further, even if all we end up with is lies and nonsense. www.sianrobinsondavies.com

ALBERTO RUIZ SOLER & ELEANOR SIKORSKI

STIWDIO, 8PM Eleanor & Alberto are pretty cynical when it comes to love. They didn’t expect their first sweaty collaboration to possess much more romance than a shower-wank. Pushing each other towards physical exhaustion and revealing personal failings and embarrassments along the way, they are both wingmen and divas. As the ‘love story’ rears its head, they relish both the mundane tale and the agonising heartbreak. www.bertruiz.net www.eleanorsikorski.com

THREATMANTICS: THE BALLAD OF SHOTGUN BILLY

THEATRE, 9.30PM The Ballad of Shotgun Billy is the tale of fictional National Football League quarterback and murderer Billy Armstrong. An audio-visual shock and awe rock-opera, the live band accompanies a flood of projected images and video with each song representing a different chapter of Billy’s life. Threatmantics attempt to crowbar as much into rock and roll as possible. Veering wildly from heartbroken folk, to balls-out rock, to spine-crushing metal, to good-time pop — barely held together by very fine thread and pretty ribbons. www.threatmantics.com

IWAN AP HUW MORGAN: THE MYTH OF THE URBAN SHAMAN

CHAPTER, 11pm A new live action work that is both confrontational and introspective, explaining the extreme challenges facing the artist as an apprentice shaman still living in an urban environment. Through intensely ritualised actions, poetry, spoken word and icaros (spirit songs), the audience will witness the constant battles the artist faces as he learns to travel safely between two worlds; the land of the living and the land of the dead, and where the world of myth and legend merges. www.gweld.wordpress.com/iwan-ap-huw-morgan/

GAVIN KRASTIN: ROUGH MUSICK

YSTAFELL GYFFREDIN, 12PM Dechreuodd yr arfer o greu ‘Rough Music’ ym mhentrefi bychain Lloegr y canoloesoedd fel modd i’r cyhoedd ddwyn gwarth a gwaradwydd ar fân-droseddwyr, gwyredigion (‘deviants’) rhywiol ac ‘eraill’. Yn rhyfedd o garnafalaidd, roedd yr arfer o godi cywilydd cyhoeddus yn golygu creu cacoffoni creulon o synau a byddai’r cyhoedd yn cyfeirio’r sŵn at yr unigolyn dan sylw fel arf. Y cyhoedd eu hunain oedd y ‘Rough Music’. Wedi’i ysbrydoli gan yr arferion cynnar hyn, mae Gavin wedi creu fersiwn gyfoes ohonynt ac yn ail-ymwneud â’r defodau tywyll. Yn Rough Musick, mae profiad gweledol ac angerddol yn datblygu drwy gyfrwng gwrthdaro rhwng delweddau a gweithgareddau sy’n tarddu o lên gwerin Gaeleg, seremonïau ‘bwyta pechod’ Cymreig, mytholegau am y ‘dyn drwg’ a gêmau ffetish chwarae rôl seico-rywiol. Gwahoddir gwylwyr y ddefod hon i gymryd rhan yn ei datblygiad ac i ymwneud â’r arddangosiadau a’r ffantasïau tywyll. Crëwyd gan Gavin Krastin Perfformiad gan Gavin Krastin ac Alan Parker Deunydd sain gwreiddiol gan Shaun Acker www.gavinkrastin.com Comisiynwyd Rough Musick yn wreiddiol gan yr Ŵyl Gelfyddydau Genedlaethol, De Affrica, yn 2013. Yn rhan o dymor De Affrica ym Mhrydian, 2014 & 2015. Mae’r tymor yn bartneriaeth rhwng Adran Celfyddydau a Diwylliant, De Affrica a’r Cyngor Prydeinig.

KAREN MIRZA & BRAD BUTLER: THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE

Y DEML HEDDWCH, CANOL DINAS CAERDYDD, 2PM Cydweithiodd Mirza a Butler gyda thrigolion Caerdydd er mwyn llwyfannu un o ‘ddramâu dysgu’ byrion Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Exception and the Rule’. Mae’r ‘rheol’ yn awgrymu iaith gyfreithiol neu gyfarwyddeb, tra bod yr ‘eithriad’ yn cyfleu syniad o fod yn anllywodraethol, neu o chwilio am rywbeth i ddisodli’r wladwriaeth neu’r farchnad rydd. Gyda’i gilydd, maent yn ddatganiad, na all y rheol fodoli heb yr eithriad, ac yn gwestiwn hefyd ynghylch union natur yr eithriad hwnnw. Mae Mirza a Butler yn eich annog i ymwneud â’r prosiect ac i ymgyfoethogi a chydweithio, mewn cyd-destun lle mae profiadau/ arbenigeddau personol a dehongliadau ar y cyd yn dod at ei gilydd wrth i’r ddrama gael ei chyflwyno i’r cyhoedd. www.mirza-butler.net Comisiynwyd gan Artes Mundi 6 gyda chefnogaeth CHAPTER

ADRIENNE WONG & DUSTIN HARVEY: LANDLINE CARDIFF TO HALIFAX

Cwtch, 3–6.45PM Gweler y manylion ar dudalen dydd Gwener

SIÂN ROBINSON DAVIES: ASSUMPTIONS

STIWDIO, 5PM Fe ddechreuwn ag ambell ragdybiaeth, am mai dyna’r man cychwyn bob amser. Fodd bynnag, byddwn yn ceisio mynd y tu hwnt i’r rhagdybiaethau hynny, hyd yn oed os taw’r oll a gawn yn y pen draw fydd celwyddau a nonsens. www.sianrobinsondavies.com

ALBERTO RUIZ SOLER & ELEANOR SIKORSKI

STIWDIO, 8PM Mae Eleanor & Alberto yn eithaf sinigaidd wrth sôn am gariad. Doedden nhw ddim yn disgwyl i’w cydweithrediad chwyslyd cyntaf fod yn fwy rhamantus na sesiwn hunan-leddfu yn y gawod. Maent yn gwthio’i gilydd hyd at flinder corfforol gan ddadlennu methiannau personol wrth fynd — maent yn ‘wingmen’ ac yn ‘divas’. Wrth i’r ‘stori garu’ ddod i’r amlwg, maent yn mynd i’r afael ag elfennau cyffredin ynghyd â thorcalon dirdynnol. www.bertruiz.net www.eleanorsikorski.com

THREATMANTICS: THE BALLAD OF SHOTGUN BILLY

THEATR, 9.30PM The Ballad of Shotgun Billy yw hanes ffuglennol y ‘quarterback’ a’r llofrudd enwog, Billy Armstrong. Mewn opera roc sy’n llawn sioc ac arswyd, mae’r band byw yn cyfeilio delweddau o lifogydd a fideos sy’n cynrychioli’r gwahanol benodau ym mywyd Billy. Mae Threatmantics yn ceisio cynnwys cymaint â phosib yn eu roc a rôl. Maent yn gwyro’n wyllt o ganu gwerin torcalonus, i roc egnïol, metel i falu’ch asgwrn cefn a phop llawen — a’r cyfan wedi’i ddal at ei gilydd (jyst!) gan edau mân a rhubanau prydferth. www.threatmantics.com

IWAN AP HUW MORGAN: THE MYTH OF THE URBAN SHAMAN

CHAPTER, 11PM Gwaith byw newydd sydd ar y naill law yn llawn gwrthdaro ac, ar y llaw arall, yn fewnblyg hefyd. Mae’n esbonio’r heriau eithafol y mae’r artist yn eu wynebu fel prentis siaman sy’n dal i fyw mewn cyd-destun dinesig. Drwy gyfrwng gweithrediadau hynod ddefodol, barddoniaeth, llefaru ac icaros (caneuon ysbryd), bydd aelodau’r gynulleidfa yn dystion i frwydrau cyson yr artist wrth iddo ddysgu teithio rhwng dau fyd; tir y byw a thir y meirw, lle mae byd o fythau a chwedlau yn dod yn un. www.gweld.wordpress.com/iwan-ap-huw-morgan/

Left to right / O’r chwith i’r dde: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Museum of Non-participation, performance still, 2013; Gavin Krastin, Rough Musick. Photo / Llun: Cat Pennels; Threatmantics

SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER ANDRE STITT: PERFORMING POLITICAL ACTS: PERFORMANCE ART IN NORTHERN IRELAND: RITUAL, CATHARSIS, AND TRANSFORMATION

CINEMA, 12PM For over forty years artists have been creating performance art in Northern Ireland during a period of traumatic civil conflict. This experimental work, created as a consequence of ‘The Troubles’, is explored through examples of artists’ interventions in an urban environment of civil war. The presentation looks at how artists used ritual and catharsis as a means whereby public artistic testimony, intervention and memorialising might be converted into acts of transformation. The presentation is in two parts and takes the form of a lecture by Andre followed by a film One Inch To The Left focusing on a recent performance by Andre, Alastair MacLennan and Adrian Hall (also known as Triple AAA). In the film they come together again in the city where they first met in the 70s and through live performance, personal archive and frank interviews, the recount their story. www.andrestitt.com One Inch To The Left will premiere at Chapter and is a film by Mutiny Filmhouse productions; directed by Oisin Kearney.

PAUL HURLEY: I FALL TO PIECES

COMMON ROOM, 2–6PM Paul Hurley presents a new work exploring formal interests in abstract movement and performance action, and personal experiences of grief. I fall to pieces comprises a single male figure dancing to Patsy Cline records in an otherwise empty space. The performer is unclothed, untrained (in dance), unrehearsed (for the piece or for death), and has his eyes closed throughout. There is no dialogue, no props, and no choreography beyond the simple score of ‘moving / not moving’. I fall to pieces is inspired by the recent loss of a friend, and by the surges and ripples of pain, love and energy that follow. It is a meditation on the repetition of multiple past losses, as well as those to come. It ventures to the line between life and death, and teeters on that between courage and shame. www.paulhurley.org

ADRIENNE WONG & DUSTIN HARVEY: LANDLINE CARDIFF TO HALIFAX CWTCH, 3–6.45PM See Friday for details

DYDD SUL 9 TACHWEDD OFF THE PAGE: CURATED BY SAMUEL HASLER

MEDIA POINT, 4PM Off the page is a regular event where artists and writers exhibit, perform or discuss new work. At these events we try to create an atmosphere of openness and encouragement. We try to work lo-fi with a DIY ethos. The works are usually focused on the use of text within the visual arts. Often this is readings or printed matter, but it has included all sorts of other activity. As part of Experimentica, we are hoping to bring a bit of the ‘unknown’ and ‘unplanned’. We might be seeing somebody’s experiments in a new method of presentation, a side to their practice that they don’t often show, or the first airings of works in progress. We make Off The Page a safe environment to experiment and encourage artists to take risks. Things can get half way and then fail, or we could see something incidental, that we’d never noticed, take on huge significance. Three artists will be presenting their works. It could be calm, it could be chaos, we’ll just have to wait and see.

FLORENCE PEAKE & JONATHAN BALDOCK: APPARITION OF THE PHANTOM LIMBS SOUND SCORE BY IAN WATSON

STIWDIO, 7PM Continuing their recent ongoing collaboration Jonathan Baldock and Florence Peake have created a new work entitled ‘Apparition of the phantom limbs’. Set in a darkly lit room, two dancers (one male and one female) stand on a stage. The performance endeavours to reconfigure these bodies and their ‘humanness’ into abstract art. Using diverse materials — plaster, mod rock, wood, fabrics and others — Baldock and Peake re-cast themselves as absurd alchemists for art making and ritualise the building of sculpture onto the human form. These materials will plaster, encrust and conceal the dancers as the choreographed performance unveils before a live audience. The stage, or space occupied, becomes a form of Renaissance studio gone wrong; deconstructing the heroic and mythic ‘artist’ through the revealing of the making processes. www.jonathan-baldock.com www.florencepeake.com www.uhohwatson.com

Left to right / O’r chwith i’r dde: John Carson, Men of Ireland the Men in Me, 1980; Jonathan Baldock & Florence Peake, performance, 2014. Photo / Llun: Warren Orchard; Paul Hurley

ANDRE STITT: PERFORMING POLITICAL ACTS: PERFORMANCE ART IN NORTHERN IRELAND: RITUAL, CATHARSIS, AND TRANSFORMATION

SINEMA, 12PM Ers dros ddeugain mlynedd, bu artistiaid yn creu gweithiau o gelfyddyd perfformio yng Ngogledd Iwerddon yn ystod cyfnod o wrthdaro sifil trawmatig. Caiff y gwaith arbrofol, a grëwyd o ganlyniad i’r ‘Trafferthion’, ei archwilio trwy gyfrwng enghreifftiau o ymyriadau gan artistiaid yng nghyd-destun dinesig rhyfel cartref. Bydd y cyflwyniad yn edrych ar y modd yr aeth artistiaid ati i ddefnyddio defod a chatharsis fel modd o droi tystiolaeth, ymyrraeth a chofio cyhoeddus ac artistig yn weithredoedd trawsnewidiol. Bydd y cyflwyniad mewn dwy ran — darlith gan Andre wedi’i dilyn gan ffilm, One Inch to the Left, sy’n canolbwyntio ar berfformiad diweddar gan Andre, Alastair MacLennan a Adrian Hall (a adwaenir hefyd dan yr enw Triple AAA). Yn y ffilm, dônt at ei gilydd unwaith eto yn y ddinas lle y bu iddynt gyfarfod am y tro cyntaf yn y 70au. Trwy gyfrwng perfformiadau byw, deunydd archif personol a chyfweliadau onest, maent yn adrodd eu stori. www.andrestitt.com Mae One Inch to the Left yn ffilm newydd gan Mutiny Filmhouse, wedi’i chyfarwyddo gan Oisin Kearney.

PAUL HURLEY: I FALL TO PIECES

YSTAFELL GYFFREDIN, 2–6PM Bydd Paul Hurley yn cyflwyno gwaith newydd sy’n archwilio diddordebau ffurfiol mewn symudiad haniaethol a pherfformiad, a phrofiadau personol o alar. Mae ‘I Fall to Pieces’ yn cynnwys un ffigwr gwrywaidd sy’n dawnsio i recordiau Patsy Cline mewn gofod sydd, fel arall, yn wag. Mae’r perfformiwr yn noeth, yn ddibrofiad (heb ei hyfforddi mewn dawns), dyw e ddim wedi ymarfer (nac ar gyfer y darn nac ar gyfer marwolaeth), ac mae ei lygaid ar gau ar hyd y darn. Does yna ddim ddeialog, dim propiau a dim coreograffi y tu hwnt i gyfarwyddyd syml y sgôr i “symud / beidio â symud”. Ysbrydolwyd ‘I Fall to Pieces’ gan y profiad o golli ffrind, a chan yr ymchwydd a’r tonnau o boen, cariad ac egni dilynol. Mae’n fyfyrdod ar golledion niferus yn y gorffennol, yn ogystal â cholledion sydd eto i ddod. Mae’n mentro at y llinell rhwng bywyd a marwolaeth, ac yn pendilio rhwng dewrder a chywilydd. www.paulhurley.org

ADRIENNE WONG & DUSTIN HARVEY: LANDLINE CARDIFF TO HALIFAX

Cwtch, 3–6.45PM Gweler y manylion ar dudalen dydd Gwener.

OFF THE PAGE: WEDI’I GURADU GAN SAMUEL HASLER

PWYNT CYFRYNGOL, 4PM Mae Off the Page yn ddigwyddiad rheolaidd sy’n caniatáu i artistiaid ac awduron arddangos, perfformio neu drafod gwaith newydd. Yn y digwyddiadau hyn, rydym yn ceisio creu awyrgylch agored ac anogol. Rydym yn ceisio mynd ati ag ethos ‘lo-fi’, DIY. Mae’r gweithiau yn canolbwyntio fel arfer ar y defnydd o destun yn y celfyddydau gweledol. Yn aml, mae hyn yn golygu darlleniadau neu ddefnydd o ddeunydd print, ond gall gynnwys hefyd bob math o weithgareddau eraill. Yn rhan o Experimentica, rydym yn gobeithio cyflwyno elfen ‘anhysbys’ a rhywfaint o anhrefn i bethau. Mae’n bosib y gwelwn arbrofion rhywun â dull newydd o gyflwyno, neu agwedd ar eu gwaith nad ydynt yn ei dangos fel arfer, neu fe allem gael cipolwg cynnar ar waith ar y gweill. Rydym yn ceisio sicrhau bod Off the Page yn ofod diogel ar gyfer arbrofi a thrwy hynny annog artistiaid i gymryd risgiau. Gall pethau gyrraedd rhyw bwynt penodol cyn methu neu fe allem sylwi ar fanylyn newydd, annisgwyl a hwnnw’n cymryd arno arwyddocâd enfawr. Bydd tri artist yn cyflwyno eu gwaith. Fe allai’r sesiwn fod yn dawel neu fe allai pethau fod yn anhrefn llwyr — bydd yn rhaid i ni aros i gael gweld.

FLORENCE PEAKE & JONATHAN BALDOCK: APPARITION OF THE PHANTOM LIMBS SGÔR SAIN GAN IAN WATSON

STIWDIO, 7PM Bydd Jonathan Baldock a Florence Peake yn parhau â’u cydweithrediad diweddar er mwyn creu gwaith newydd o’r enw ‘Apparition of the phantom limbs’. Mewn ystafell dywyll, mae dau ddawnsiwr (dyn a menyw) yn sefyll ar lwyfan. Nod y perfformiad yw ad-drefnu’r cyrff hyn a’u ‘dynolrwydd’ a’u troi yn gelfyddyd haniaethol. Â chymorth deunyddiau amrywiol — plastr, roc mod, pren, ffabrigau ac yn y blaen — bydd Baldock a Peake yn eu hail-ddiffinio’u hunain fel alcemyddion abswrd er mwyn creu celfyddyd a defodoli’r broses o greu cerflun ar ffurf ddynol. Bydd y deunyddiau hyn yn plastro ac yn cuddio’r dawnswyr wrth i’r perfformiad fynd rhagddo o flaen cynulleidfa fyw. Mae’r llwyfan, neu’r gofod a feddiannir, yn dod yn fath o stiwdio Ddadeni ar chwâl; dadadeiledir yr ‘artist’ arwrol a chwedlonol drwy ddatgelu prosesau’r creu. www.jonathan-baldock.com www.florencepeake.com www.uhohwatson.com

FILM

FFILM

Bfi Sci-fi: All Hail The New Flesh!

Tymor Gwyddonias Y Bfi: All Hail The New Flesh!

Continuing our Science Fiction season here at Chapter, we explore co-existence as we look at the integration of the human with technology and contact with alien beings.

Wrth i dymor Gwyddonias Chapter barhau, byddwn yn archwilio cyd-fodolaeth wrth i ni edrych ar ffyrdd o integreiddio’r dynol â thechnoleg a chyswllt â bodau estron.

Please note that normal cinema rates apply. Tickets are £5 each for Experimentica 5-day Festival pass holders.

Nodwch y bydd y dangosiadau hyn yn costio pris tocyn sinema arferol. Bydd tocynnau’n £5 yr un ar gyfer deiliaid pàs 5-niwrnod Gŵyl Experimentica.

VIDEODROME

THEY LIVE

VIDEODROME

They Live

Canada/1983/84mins/18. Dir: David Cronenberg. With: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonya Smits.

Usa/1988/90mins/18. Dir: John Carpenter. With: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster.

Canada/1983/84mun/18. Cyf: David Cronenberg. Gyda: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonya Smits.

Uda/1988/90mun/18. Cyf: John Carpenter. Gyda: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster.

Sun 2 Nov, 5pm + Tue 4 Nov, 2.30pm A cerebral exploration of addiction, dangerous sexuality and technological obsession, with a heart of visceral gore from the master of body horror.

DISTRICT 9

Sat 1 Nov, 8.15pm + Wed 5 Nov, 2.30pm South Africa/2009/108mins/15. Dir: Neill Blomkamp. With: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope.

A generation since aliens first made contact, but with no threat and no technological benefit to the human race, the extra-terrestrials are forced to live in slum-like conditions. An allegory for contemporary problems, this is an inventive and energetic look at the ironies of prejudice and dangers of inhumane treatment with a light, humorous touch.

LIQUID SKY

Thu 6 Nov, 6.30pm Usa/1983/110mins/18. Dir: Slava Tsukerman. With: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Bob Brady.

Aliens land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her androgynous, nymphomaniac fashion model lover. A dark, funny, bizarre little-seen cult gem rooted in the cool post-punk scene.

ALTERED STATES Fri 7 Nov, 6pm

Usa/1980/98mins/18. Dir: Ken Russell. With: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban.

Wrestling with the idea of mankind’s role in the universe, Professor Eddie Jessup obsessively researches the idea of different levels of human consciousness. Submitting to a series of mind-expanding experiments with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber, his visions lead to physical change. A thrilling, dream-like film about madness and mutation.

Sat 8 Nov, 8pm

Sul 2 Tach, 5pm + Maw 4 Tach, 2.30pm

A homeless drifter discovers a reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor: a conspiracy by aliens who have infiltrated American society in the guise of wealthy yuppies. With the help of special sunglasses that reveal the aliens’ true faces and their subliminal messages put out in the media our hero tries to stop the invasion. A hugely entertaining satire on modern capitalism.

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED Sun 9 Nov, 2.30pm

Uk/1960/75mins/12. Dir: Wolf Rilla. With: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens.

One morning in the village of Midwich every resident suddenly falls asleep and then, just as suddenly, everyone wakes up, unaffected by the phenomenon except that every woman of childbearing years has become pregnant. The babies are born at precisely the same moment and all look the same. One of the fathers notices that the children possess powers far beyond those of ordinary mortals and deduces that they must be stopped. One of the most influential films of the 1960s.

SOLARIS

Sun 9 Nov, 5pm Russia/1973/162mins/PG. Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky. With: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet.

Widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting planet Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor and the mental problems plaguing the cosmonauts aboard. An enigmatic and profound exploration of loss, memory and longing. + Join us after the film for a discussion with Tinted Lens, a new collaboration between Chapter, Cardiff University and BFI.

Gwaith gan feistr ffilmiau arswyd corfforol sydd yn archwiliad ymenyddol o gaethiwed, rhywioldeb peryglus ac obsesiwn technolegol. Mae i’r ffilm hon galon dywyll!

District 9

Sad 1 Tach, 8.15pm + Mer 5 Tach, 2.30pm De Affrica/2009/108mun/15. Cyf: Neill Blomkamp. Gyda: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope.

Genhedlaeth ers i estroniaid gysylltu â dynion am y tro cyntaf, ond heb iddynt fygwth yr hil ddynol na chynnig unrhyw ddatblygiadau technolegol, mae’r estroniaid yn cael eu gorfodi i fyw mewn tlodi eithafol. Mae’r ffilm hon yn alegori o broblemau cyfoes ac yn olwg ddyfeisgar ac egnïol ar eironïau rhagfarn a pheryglon trin eraill yn annynol. Mae iddi gyffyrddiadau ysgafn hyfryd a dogn sylweddol o hiwmor.

Liquid Sky

Iau 6 Tach, 6.30pm Uda/1983/110mun/18. Cyf: Slava Tsukerman. Gyda: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Bob Brady.

Mae ‘aliens’ yn glanio ar ben fflat yn efrog newydd lle mae deliwr cyffuriau’n byw gyda’i chariad, sydd yn fodel androgynaidd, nymffomaniad. Ffilm gwlt dywyll a doniol am anobaith — dyma gyfle prin i weld y trysor bychan hwn sydd wedi’i wreiddio yn y sîn ôl-pync cŵl.

Altered States Gwe 7 Tach, 6pm

Uda/1980/98mun/18. Cyf: Ken Russell. Gyda: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban.

Wrth iddo ymgodymu â rôl dynolryw yn y bydysawd, mae’r athro Eddie Jessup yn ymchwilio’n obsesiynol i syniadau am wahanol lefelau ymwybyddiaeth ddynol. Ar ôl cytuno i gymryd rhan mewn arbrofion i ehangu’r meddwl gyda chyffur rhithweledol mewn siambr ynysu, mae ei weledigaethau yn arwain at newid corfforol. Ffilm gyffrous, freuddwydaidd am wallgofrwydd a thrawsnewid.

Images left to right / Delweddau o’r chwith i’r dde: Videodrome; They Live; Village of the Damned

Sad 8 Tach, 8pm Mae crwydryn digartref yn dod o hyd i’r rheswm dros y bwlch cynyddol rhwng y cyfoethog a’r tlawd: cynllwyn gan ‘aliens’ sydd wedi treiddio i gymdeithas america ar ffurf ‘yuppies’ cyfoethog. Gyda chymorth sbectol haul arbennig sy’n dangos wynebau go-iawn yr estroniaid, ac ar ôl i’w negeseuon isganfyddol gael eu darlledu gan y cyfryngau. Mae ein harwr yn ceisio atal y goresgyniad. Ffilm ddychan ddylanwadol a hynod ddifyr am gyfalafiaeth fodern.

Village Of The Damned Sul 9 Tach, 2.30pm

Dg/1960/75mun/12. Cyf: Wolf Rilla. Gyda: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens.

Un bore ym mhentref Midwich, mae pob un o’r trigolion yn cwympo i gysgu cyn deffro eto mor sydyn bob tamaid. Dydyn nhw ddim fel petaent wedi’u heffeithio gan y ffenomenon — ar wahân i’r ffaith bod pob menyw sy’n ddigon hen i gael plant bellach yn feichiog. Caiff y babanod eu geni ar yr un eiliad yn union ac maent bob un yn edrych yn union yr un fath. Mae un o’r tadau’n sylwi bod y plant yn meddu ar bwerau goruwchnaturiol ac yn penderfynu bod yn rhaid eu hatal. Mae hon yn un o ffilmiau mwyaf dylanwadol y 1960au.

Solaris

Sul 9 Tach, 5pm Rwsia/1973/162mun/PG. Cyf: Andrei Tarkovsky. Gyda: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet.

Mae’r seicolegydd gweddw, Kris Kelvin, yn cael ei anfon i orsaf ofod sy’n cylchdroi planed Solaris er mwyn ymchwilio i farwolaeth ddirgel meddyg a’r problemau meddyliol sy’n effeithio ar y gofodwyr ar ei bwrdd. Archwiliad enigmatig a dwys o golled, y cof a hiraeth. + Ymunwch â ni ar ôl y ffilm am drafodaeth Tinted Lens, cydweithrediad newydd gan Chapter, Prifysgol Caerdydd a’r bfi.

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