Aequus

In Aequus, aerial scenes of dancers performing in an
emptied lido pool at Craig y Don, Llandudno, are echoed by footage of performers in the Irish Sea. Drawing on future plans for a nineteen-mile tidal lagoon in north Wales, the work considers the history of lido pools in Wales, sites of communal joy and play whose
histories are interwoven with extractive energy production – many were built by the miners’ welfare fund. With a soundtrack composed of ocean waves transcribed and combined with field recordings and vocals, the film’s intricate choreographies narrate the complex entanglements at play in the drive toward greener energy solutions.
 

Aequus arose from the artist’s long-term interrogation of dichotomies between natural forces and manmade structures, and a desire to imagine new ways of synchronising our movements as we reimagine beyond immediate horizons. The film was shot during the
autumn equinox in Llandudno with the support of the Future Wales Fellowship. An earlier iteration was shown at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea from November 2023 to March 2024 and Mostyn/IKT in Llandudno in 2023. The piece is being developed for the Greenman Trust 2024.