Angela Davies

Aequus, 2023, Video Installation 14 minutes in duration

 

In Aequus, aerial scenes of dancers performing in an emptied lido pool at Craig y Don, Llandudno, are echoed by footage of performers in the Irish Sea. Drawing on future plans for a nineteen-mile tidal lagoon in north Wales, the work considers the history of lido pools in Wales, sites of communal joy and play whose histories are interwoven with extractive energy production – many were built by the
miners’ welfare fund.

 

With a soundtrack composed of ocean waves transcribed and combined with field recordings and vocals, the film’s intricate choreographies narrate the complex entanglements at play in the drive toward greener energy solutions.

 

Aequus arose from the artist’s long-term interrogation of dichotomies between natural forces and manmade structures, and a desire to imagine new ways of synchronising our movements as we reimagine beyond immediate horizons.

 

The film was shot during the autumn equinox in Llandudno with the support of the Future Wales Fellowship, and an earlier iteration was shown at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery from November 2023 to March 2024.

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Credits:

Dancers: Angharad Price Jones, Kseniia Fedorovykh, Lisa Spaull, Kate Lawrence, Louis George, Melissa Pasut

Sound produced and edited by Angela Davies

Filmed by Angela Davies, Joe Edwards, Ant Dickinson

Film Edited by Angela Davies, Mark Eaglen, Finn Black

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With special thanks to Arts Council of Wales and Natural Resources Wales, Centre for Alternative Technology, Glynn Vivian, Mostyn & IKT, Pontio, Greenman Trust

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Future Wales Fellows cohort of 2022, The school of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University, Sophie Ward, Nigel Prince, Anthony Shapland, Tracy Simpson, Lexi Stevens, Louise Hobson