Event
This free discursive event marks the penultimate weekend at Mostyn of Owain Train McGilvary and Dylan Huw’s film Fel gwacter, which was commissioned by Mostyn and LUX as part of the CELF (National Contemporary Art Gallery for Wales) programme.
The film’s speculative interrogation of how gaps and absences in Wales’ visual culture can be tools for producing counter-narratives will act as a departure point for an afternoon of films and conversation. This event will be informal, participatory and mainly in English. Artists and cultural workers based in Wales are particularly encouraged to attend.
A discussion about Fel gwacter’s contexts and themes, between McGilvary, Huw and artist-researcher Joanna Wright, will be followed by a screening of short films from the LUX collection which informed its development. Also screening will be Owain Train McGilvary’s previous film Seeing Red (2024), which was exhibited at Glasgow International 2024 and has not yet been shown in Wales.
The final part of the event will be a collective dialogue facilitated by the artists and film curator/producer Luke W Moody, imagining enlivened futures for the field of artists’ film and video in Wales.
We recommend visitors watch Fel gwacter before attending; the film lasts 28 minutes and starts playing every half-hour in Gallery 2 during Mostyn’s opening hours. The version playing at 12:30pm has English subtitles.
Also available for the first time at the event will be the free zine HOLESCAPES \ TWLLDIRWEDDAU. Continuing the film’s transdisciplinary research process, the publication features newly commissioned responses to Fel gwacter by Steffan Gwynn, ffin Jordão and Talulah Thomas.
Mostyn is able to contribute to the travel costs of those travelling more than 30 miles specifically for the event. Please email [email protected] if you’d benefit from this support. The deadline to apply for travel support is 17 January 2025.
Owain Train McGilvary (b.1992, Bangor, Wales) is an artist working with moving image, drawing, collage and painting. He has collaborated with wrestlers, drag artists, musicians, writers and other visual artists, to create multimedia and multilingual works which pay particular attention to the reconfiguring of existing archives. He received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, where he now teaches, and was a Wales Venice 10 Fellow in 2022-3.
Dylan Huw (b.1996, Aberystwyth, Wales) is a writer and collaborative practitioner. A former Visual AIDS Research Fellow (2023), Flaherty Curatorial Fellow (2023) and Future Wales Fellow (2022-3), his work is invested in rehearsing a poetics and praxis of provisionality, revision and translation. He writes about contemporary art and cinema for e-flux, Frieze and others, and was a runner-up for the 10th International Award for Art Criticism.
