LUMIN | carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join
Poster box Commission
Platfform 2: July 11- August 8, 2022
‘carve, hew, adze, bend, weave, grow, split, join is a work of speculative fiction about an autonomous community in a countryside of the future. Drawing on the interdependence of country and city as well as past revolutions in rural craft, it considers the tools, objects and methods of a woodworkers' coop after the decline of the metropolis. Alongside this, a quote from postcolonial theorist and poet Édouard Glissant similarly rejects the countryside as solely a place of conservatism, alternate histories suggest that ‘the countryside is also the place where there are revolutions’. - LUMIN, Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse
LUMIN are a small press, radio and curatorial collective - supporting new and established artists, writers and cultural practitioners in work that is radical, personal and experimental. Based in Cardiff, LUMIN is run by artists Sadia Pineda Hameed and Beau W Beakhouse, forming a wider collective with their regular collaborators.
As part of Casgleb, LUMIN are researching ideas and structures of autonomy, exploring what an autonomous space in the arts (and for creating together) is and how autonomy relates to the different areas of their practice. In general, autonomy means to be self-governed, and in this context, LUMIN are approaching autonomy as a means of finding a way beyond oppressive systems past and present.
Commissioned by Peak, this is the second in a series of poster box commissions which will gently share artist works and research emerging from Casgleb, on Platfform 2, Abergavenny Train Station. Casgleb is supported by the Arts Council of Wales’ Connect and Flourish fund.
Poster box Commission | Comisiwn Poster mewn Ffrâm
Platfform 2: 11 Gorffennaf - 28 Awst, 2022
Casgleb guradurol, radio a gwasg fach yw LUMIN - sy’n cefnogi artistiaid, awduron ac ymarferwyr diwylliannol newydd a sefydledig gyda gwaith sy’n radical, yn bersonol ac yn arbrofol. Wedi’u lleoli yng Nghaerdydd, caiff LUMIN ei rhedeg gan yr artistiaid Sadia Pineda Hameed a Beau W Beakhouse, gan ffurfio casgleb ehangach gyda’u cydweithwyr rheolaidd.
Fel rhan o raglen Casgleb, mae LUMIN yn ymchwilio i syniadau a strwythurau ymreolaeth, gan archwilio beth yw ystyr gofod ymreolaethol yn y celfyddydau (ac ar gyfer cyd-greu), a sut mae ymreolaeth yn ymwneud â gwahanol feysydd eu harfer. Yn gyffredinol, mae ymreolaeth yn golygu hunan-lywodraethu, ac yn y cyd-destun yma, mae LUMIN yn edrych ar ymreolaeth fel dull o ddod o hyd i ffordd y tu hwnt i systemau gormesol ddoe a heddiw.
