#1: Cors Bodeilio

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 first event will take place at Cors Bodeilio in Môn/Anglesey on Saturday 6 June 2026 between 2-4pm. It will feature three specially-commissioned live responses to the site and the themes of the project, by Sownd artists Manon Awst and Dylan Huw, interdisciplinary performer Anushiye Yarnell, and writer-researcher Becca Voelcker.

Free shuttle buses will provide transport to the site from Bangor city centre and Pentraeth; we ask that all audience members please take the bus unless otherwise arranged to avoid strain on the site. The event will take place entirely outdoors with limited accessibility. Please check the weather forecast ahead of the event and wear appropriate clothing and footwear. Please note that Cors Bodeilio does not have toilet facilities on site. Toilets are available for audience members at Pentraeth Memorial Hall. Please contact lily.cymruynfenis@gmail.com with any questions.

Performance from 2-4pm, Sadwrn / Saturday 6.6.26

Transport will be provided from Bangor and Pentraeth.

From Bangor - 1:15pm Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre Bus Stop

From Pentraeth - 1:45pm Pentraeth Memorial Hall

Sownd [ar safle] #1: Cors Bodeilio contributors

Anushiye Yarnell works with movement, sound, voice, text, drawing, and alternative pedagogies. Recent projects include the site-specific performance film Our Lady Blodeuwedd (2025) and Array of Opposites (2023-), an ongoing corpus of participatory research “meandering through the perceptual body.”

Becca Voelcker is a writer and historian of visual culture from Pant Glas, Gwynedd. Her book Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction – acclaimed as “a groundbreaking account of global film cultures rooted in land-based struggle” – was recently published from University of California Press, accompanied by a film programme by the same name at the Barbican Centre in November 2025. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Manon Awst is an artist living in Caernarfon, Wales, whose sculptural and performative practice is rooted in specific sites. A recent Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship and Future Wales Fellowship allowed her to develop creative research on peatlands. Her work is part of the National Library of Wales, the UK Government and Welsh Parliament art collections.

Dylan Huw is a writer and artist who works collaboratively across languages and disciplines. Recent projects have been supported by Jerwood Foundation, Artes Mundi, LUX and Mostyn. His critical writing has been published with Frieze, e-flux and Art Monthly, and he has been twice-shortlisted for the International Award for Art Criticism.