Eli

ELI (salve) prosiect ointment projects 2005

Over the last 4 years ointment have initiated a number of public arts projects exploring the relationships between nature and culture in the rural, both here in west Wales and Internationally.

Spanning the seasons between summer 2004 and spring 2005, five artists listen, discover, question and soothe through the ELI (salve) project. In the following live art events they invite the public to participate in a series of walks to find extraordinary herbs in ordinary places and to join with them in making ointment. Pots of real ointment will be produced and given away, but the main aim of this project is symbolic: the ointment itself serving as a medicinal balm for the collective skin of a community and as a botanic and cultural map of particular geographies of west Wales.

Yn ystod y pedair blynedd olaf mae ointment wedi mentro ar nifer o brosiectau’r celfyddydau cyhoeddus gan archwilio I mewn I’r berthynas rhwng nature a diwylliant gwledig yma yng ngorllewin Cymru ac yn rhyngwladol. Drwy ymestyn dros dymhorau haf 2004 a gwanwyn 2005, mae pum artist yn gwando, yn darganfod, yn cwestiynu ac yn esmwythio yn prosiect ELI (salve). Yn y digwyddiadau celfyddyd rhyngddisgyblaethol canlynol meant yn eich gwahodd I gyfranogi mewn cyfres o deithiau I ddarganfod llysiau anarferol mewn safleoedd cyffredin, ac I ymuno â hwy I gynhyrchu’r eli. Cynhyrchir potiau o eli go iawn a’u dosbarthu, er bod prif amcan y broses hon yn y symbolaidd. Mae’r eli ei hun yn falm-olew ar gyfer croen y gymuned gyfan, ac yn gweithredu fel map botaneg a diwylliedig o safleoedd penodol yng ngorllewin Cymru

"Today artists heal, sell, teach, build, cook, dance, document, perform, recite, preach, and more. But if art’s activities overlap with all these non-art professions, what distinguishes its mission as art? " Linda Weintraub (Making Contemporary Art – How Today’s Artists Think And Work)

Monday 30 May. The Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthenshire. 11.30am, 2pm & 4pm.
Saturday 4 June. St Thomas’ Old School Hall, David Street. St Dogmaels.Pembrokeshire. 2pm & 7pm.Saturday 11 June. Preseli hills. Pembrokeshire.

ointment artists: Peter Bodenham, Stefhan Caddick, Maura Hazelden, Stirling Steward, Simon Whitehead.

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