Satellite Bureau Cardigan was a one
month residency at the media centre Creative Mwldan. Hamilton &
Southern worked with local people to explore how a GPS device can
be used to make drawings that describe an aesthetics of movement,
conditioned by the shape of local landscape and seascape. This work
explores how a line might express both the precision of data but
also the poetry and politics of subjective experience of environment.
Participants were invited to make a journey to contribute to the
map. Following their walk each participant was asked to describe
their walk using their gps line as a cue. These recorded narratives
revealed a powerful sense of place seen through diverse personal
perspectives. A route to work, collecting lobster pots in the bay,
marking sites of historic importance, ocean canoeing, dancing on
the beach, a walk for exercise or a meander based on more personal
thoughts about family life. In parallel Hamilton & Southern
devised ways of tracking motion that is controlled by the wind and
the tides.
All participants were invited to take a minibus to attend the May
You Live in Interesting Times conference and festival in Cardiff,
and to take part in the Ebb & Flow boat trip as a conclusion
of the participatory process.The residency was part of May You Live
in Interesting Times, Cardiff's inaugural festival of creative technology
- a three-day programme of events being held across the capital,
28th to 30th October 2005. The festival was developed between bloc
and Chapter art organisations in Cardiff. The residency was hosted
by Creative Mwldan Creadigol, Cardiff. The residency programme for
the festival is supported and managed by Cywaith Cymru. Artworks
Wales, the national organisation for public art in Wales. May You
Live in Interesting Times was a Cardiff 2005 event.
