Weeding cares! Diological Weeding - Map o Gymru, Llyn Alaw, Ynys Môn
an invitation from Sarah Pogoda
Time: 10-3pm (you can drop in and out at any time)
Llyn Alaw location: Google Maps / What3words app: lluosrif.amgylchedd.undonog.
We are arranging lifts from Menai Bridge and Bangor. So please email Sarah Pogoda if you need or if you can offer a lift.
Accessibility: Unfortunately, the site is not accessible, and there are no facilities at the site, either.
Strawberry Plants, Garden, Weeds. These are just a few metaphors we have been using to talk about what Utopias Bach is and does, when we talk about aesthetics and cultures of care in and as Utopias Bach.
I have been calling for volunteers to clear and weed a massive earth work in the shape of the map of Wales which Welsh artist Paul Davies created with the help of students, family and friends in 1987 as part of the Year of Environment by the then European Commission.
But is this form of gardening for visibility I have been enabling really the appropriate form of care for the earth work? Paul Davies did describe the earth work as “a living sculpture”, as semi-permanent.
Semi-permanent, what does that indicate. A becoming invisible, a disappearing? Or a becoming visible again, an emerging?
Only recently, Utopias Bach have been looking deeper into scoring encounters and relationships with the more-than-human (Tree Sense School, Tea with a Tree). I would like to invite everyone to a scored encounter with the site of the earth work at Llyn Alaw. Depending on how your encounter ‘unscores’, you might start scoring invitations for encounters, too. Or you might engage in weeding as a form of care for semi-permanence. Or you might explore resonating with mythological traces of the site as a new form of gardening for healing.
Please wear appropriate clothing, including boots and long sleeves, as there are some muddy spots and some carefree bramble.
All tools and panads will be provided.
