Water, land and borders
- a walk + talk with Angela YT Chan
Saturday 28th May, 11:30am - 1pm
Porthkerry Park + The Knap, Barry
Join artist and researcher Angela YT Chan for a walk and talk which explores the shoreline as a site to consider colonial climate histories and presents, and the connected struggles of displacement and migration in a world of border building.
At low tide we can observe both downstream trickles of water into the sea and the sea’s waves returning back to the shore - an ongoing shaping and remaking of the porous borders between land and water. Continuing Angela’s previous work on water stories - specifically around migration, daily water practices and the historical context of water in colonial extractivism - this discursive walk will explore how we can use our shores to think together about the processes that create barriers of migration for those who are most unjustly impacted by the climate crises and intersecting struggles.
This adaptation has been written in Cymraeg by Esyllt Lewis as part of an ongoing exploration testing how Sway works across languages and ideas in translation.
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Walk & Terrain
This short walk and talk will begin where Porthkerry Country Park meets the pebble beach of the Knapp. Please note that the pebbles can be quite difficult to walk on. We’ll be meeting to coincide with the low tide, which on Saturday 28th May is at 12:24pm. Comfortable shoes recommended and please dress for the weather. If you have any questions about this event, please get in touch by emailing louise@sway-barry.org.
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Host
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist based in the East Midlands. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, through self-archiving, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction. Her recent research-art commissions span climate framings, water scarcity and conflict, and since 2014, Angela has produced curatorial projects and workshops as Worm: art + ecology, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups. Angela is also a research consultant, having worked in international climate and cultural policy and on climate and sustainability projects for major cultural institutions.
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This walk is programmed by Sway, a new arts project in Barry which is hosting artists, researchers, writers and residents alongside the town’s hyper-tidal waters to explore ideas around attachments, entanglements, ways of holding, communing and collective-making across the local landscape.