Sownd [ar safle]
The second event took place at Cors Caron, near Tregaron, Ceredigion, on Saturday 11 July 2026.
Sownd [ar safle] is a sequence of three site-specific live events on peatland sites across Wales – an invitation to get stuck in to wet and unsteady ground. The programme is presented as part of Sownd, a project for the 61st Venice Biennale, and is organised by artists Manon Awst and Dylan Huw in collaboration with Sownd’s curatorial team and invited artists.
Sownd [ar safle] invites artists and audiences in Wales to sink deeper into Sownd’s themes and materials, and to participate in this ambitious international project’s continued sited development. For both the Venice exhibition and the site-specific programme in Wales, Manon Awst and Dylan Huw have drawn on research in Welsh peatlands: sticky and unstable environments that both conceal and reveal vast scales of material history. These sites, layered with organic matter and cultural memory, become a terrain from which the artists navigate sedimented histories of language, culture, and ecology. The collaboration between Awst and Huw invites connections between disciplines and across borders, informed by Wales’ celebrated history of site-specific collective practice and oral poetic tradition.
The second event took place at Cors Caron, near Tregaron, Ceredigion, on Saturday 11 July 2026. It featured three specially produced live responses to the site and the themes of the project, by Sownd artists Manon Awst and Dylan Huw, writer Naomi Pearce, and performance duo good cop bad cop, working with material from Mike Pearson’s archive.
Cymru yn Fenis / Wales in Venice is commissioned by the Arts Council of Wales with support and collaboration from the Welsh Government, Wales Arts International and the British Council. Sownd [ar safle] / Sownd [on site] is further supported by the Colwinston Charitable Trust, Art fund, Natreswales + Peatland Cymru.
