28-31 August 2025 During Locator 33 we will return to Coetir Tycanol Woods, one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK. How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and ancient beings? In attempting to notice and learn from these organisms and the places in which they thrive, to move as lichen is to combine our differences, to be together in ways that we couldn’t if Read More
To touch lichen is to touch something that pre-exists our human lifetimes, peer closely and you see that they are all distinctly and mysteriously themselves, made up of many collaborating lifeforms. Crustose, Foliose, Fruticose – lichens thrive everywhere, on buildings, trees, rocks, road signs and gravestones. As a movement artist, I’m interested in how the slow growth of lichens, their symbiosis and adherence to the earth might inform gentle movement, inner meditative practices and cultivate soft Read More
‘Lichen has much to teach us about our relationship to the environment and our place within a living world…this little organism with its incredible life force invites a new vision (on a new scale), a new ecology.’ Vincent Zonka (2023) During Locator 32 we will spend time in one of the most diverse lichen ecosystems in Wales and the UK. How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and Read More