Open Call: Locator - Becoming Lichen 2
Oriel Davies invites applications from artists at all stages of their careers, who are interested in taking part in Locator 33 with Simon Whitehead. Locator 33 is fully booked, so this is a great opportunity to be part of this life-changing experience.
Locator is a transient/residential community workshop practice, immersed in Tycanol, an ancient woodland in North Pembrokeshire, 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. We will be joined by ecologist Yusef Samari.
Locator 33
Becoming Lichen part 2 (Reasons to be Cheerful)
28-31 August 2025
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?
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).
This opportunity covers fees to attend this residential workshop with a small group of others.
Accommodation is in a 15th Century gatehouse (Y Porthdy) on the edge of the woods; with beds, studio, kitchen and shower rooms. Access within the woods is limited. Sleeping is in shared dormitories, eating and cooking are shared by the group.
To apply send an email to steffan@orieldavies.org in a format appropriate to you. Put “LOCATOR opp” in the subject line. Tell me what this would mean to you, what are you currently working on and what you’re aiming to do in the future. Why do you think this opportunity would benefit your creative practice? I’m particularly keen to hear from artists who are students, recent graduates, people from the global majority and those from the LGBTQ community. Artists must be willing to engage in shared experiences and performative practices. Welsh speakers are particularly encouraged to apply
Closing date 13 June 2025
