Tycanol

Locator 34 SUBSTRATE

  April 2-5, 2026 For SUBSTRATE we return to the ancient wooded and rocky landscape of Tycanol in north Pembrokeshire, west Wales. Join us for creative community; made through walking scores, moving and dreaming with Ordovician dolerite, with multiple species of rock and tree lichen, sessile oaks, whilst touching into deep time, ‘niching’ with outcrops & navigating a nighttime landscape. A substrate describes a physical surface or medium—such as rock, or plant—upon which organisms attach, grow, Read More

11 Jan 2026

Locator 33: Becoming lichen part 2 (Reasons to be Cheerful)

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

25 Apr 2025

Locator 32: Becoming Lichen

‘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

24 Sep 2024