#2: Cors Caron

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 will take place at Cors Caron, near Tregaron, Ceredigion, on Saturday 11 July 2026 between 2-4pm. It will feature 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.

Free shuttle buses will provide transport to the site from Aberystwyth and Tregaron; 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.

Transport will be provided from Aberystwyth and Tregaron.

From Aberystwyth -1pm departure: Aberystwyth Bus Station (Outside Mountain Warehouse) SY23 1LL

From Tregaron - 1:45pm departure: Tregaron Talbot Hotel Bus Stop SY25 6JL

The event will take place entirely outdoors. Please check the weather forecast ahead of the event and wear appropriate clothing and footwear.

There are toilet facilities on site.

Please contact lily.cymruynfenis@gmail.com with any questions.

Performance from 2-4pm, Sadwrn / Saturday 11.7.26

Sownd [ar safle] #2: Cors Caron contributors

Naomi Pearce is a writer living in Ceredigion. Her debut novel, Innominate (MOIST Books, 2023), was described by Iain Sinclair as “a classic of local archaeology.” Drawing on a background in textiles, her work weaves together feminist and queer histories, place, ecology, and art. She has been published in British Art Studies, LA Review of Books, TON Magazine, and The White Review. Naomi recently participated in the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme and teaches fine art and art history at Aberystwyth University.

good cop bad cop is the collaborative practice of John Rowley and Richard Huw Morgan. They have have worked together for 36 years, initially with pioneering Welsh performance company Brith Gof. gcbc’s output is constructed without the safety net of established form or specific audiences, for the “imagined communities” of a future Wales, within a wider global dialogue for how such concepts as nation, cultural practice and community are considered.

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.