....Seán Vicary: Animistic Topographies..Seán Vicary: Animistic Topographies....
....October 2018..Hydref 2018....
....Project Studios A and B..Stiwdios Prosiect A & B....
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Seán Vicary’s ongoing research project Animistic Topographies uses animation to explore ‘contemporary’ manifestations of Genii Loci.
He is investigating what forms these ‘Spirits of Place’ could take and how they might question our humancentric viewpoint.
His recent work, produced in association with the Literary Atlas project, is a response to Alan Garner’s cult novel The Owl Service.
Seán examines the novel’s idea of the upper Dyfi valley both as a charged ‘reservoir’ for unseen forces and also a driver for Garner’s (and consequentially his own) creative process; the immersion of oneself in a landscape/place providing a conduit and the act of creation a channeling of those forces.
Over the course of a year Seán has worked on location in Llanymawddwy filming, collecting and animating objects from the valley; including horsehair & lime plaster, handmade nails and a witch bottle. Together these create a ‘receiver’ for tuning into residual wavelengths and decoding any hauntological transmissions.
Seán is the recipient of 2017 Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales.
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Mae prosiect ymchwil parhaus Seán Vicary, Animistic Topographies yn defnyddio animeiddiad i archwilio amlygiadau ‘cyfoes’ o Genii Loci.
Mae’n ymchwilio pa ffurf fyddai i’r ‘Eneidiau Lle’ hyn a sut y gallent gwestiynu ein safbwynt ‘dynol-sentrig’ ni.
Mae ei waith diweddar, a gynhyrchwyd ar y cyd â phrosiect yr Atlas Llenyddol, yn ymateb i nofel gwlt Alan Garner The Owl Service.
Mae Seán yn archwilio syniad y nofel o ddyffryn uchaf afon Dyfi fel ‘cronfa ddwˆr’ lawn ar gyfer grymoedd anweledig a hefyd, o ganlyniad, yn yrrwr i broses greadigol Garner ei hun; trochi’r hunan mewn tirwedd/lle sy’n darparu dyfrbibell a’r weithred o greu a sianelu’r grymoedd hynny.
Dros gyfnod o flwyddyn mae Seán wedi gweithio ar leoliad yn Llanymawddwy yn ffilmio, casglu ac animeiddio gwrthrychau o’r cwm; yn cynnwys rhawn a phlastr leim, hoelion wedi’u gwneud â llaw a photel gwrach. Gyda’i gilydd bydd y rhain yn creu ‘derbynnydd’ i diwnio i mewn i donfeddi gweddillol a dadgodio unrhyw drosglwyddiadau cyniweiriol.
Seán yw derbynnydd Gwobr Cymru Greadigol 2017 gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
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