Output details

Mapio Stondinau Llaeth Ceredigion : Perfformiad ar-lein ac ar grwydr

An online and on-road performance documented by online map, video and photographs.

The basic principles involved in the execution of the performance are established by the work already carried out; the performance is complete as it stands. But the process of searching is ongoing (researcher will not add any new sites to the map during 2014). The main research questions for the project are as follows: how may one create a text or document which accounts for the multifaceted relationship between the researcher and his native place? What kind of awareness of place is created by undertaking a performance which originates in the 'square mile' but extends beyond it? How might one define and document performance constituted as a network of locations on a stage of 688 square miles?

The project enacts a process of searching, and considers the complexities associated with the sense of belonging to a place. The study's focus is on milk churn stands, objects which attest to the recent industrial (and cultural) history of Ceredigion. The map denotes the location of many farms involved in milk production during the past 75 years as a network; the photographs show the condition of the remaining stands and suggest contemporary inhabitants' attitudes towards them.

Like any map, this documents journeys taken across the landscape and the effort to exercise a constant and systematic attention to a limited number of features seen thereupon. The project considers this process of mapping as a performance, as a mesh of cultural, critical and personal factors. It takes advantage of the intrinsic features of online technology to represent different scales of landscape within one digital platform, and to produce a composite of different perspectives.

An online and on-road performance:This output uses the production of an online map to denote the performance of traversing and searching the ‘native’ landscape and to examine the relationship between the researcher and the industrial and cultural heritage of the place. The online map is defined as a multiscale representation of the performance space which replicates this multi-layered relationship: it constitutes a document of the journeys undertaken through the landscape and also a set of instructions to potential participants. The output also includes photographs of the stands discovered during the performance, and provides evidence of their current use and status.