CANALCHEMY

A walk along the route of the canal through Cardiff city centre to Canal Park as part of the Projectivisms conference. We may well have taken a wrong turn going through the shopping arcade. 19/5/18

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"Our walk traced the canal’s course through the Cardiff’s shopping centre, under a railway bridge and into a housing estate. Various conference participants read work at selected locations and we all performed a collaborative round in the echoing railway tunnel. We didn’t quite make it to the canal’s final destination at Cardiff basin. It was particularly odd to try and imagine the canal whilst standing in the shopping centre. Hitchins told me about trying to balance participation and artistic vision and about the often spookily terrible weather his group had encountered en-route (‘why did I mention Alchemy in the title?’). Perhaps the jinx had continued for one person who had been involved in previous walks, ‘Allen Fisher got to Cardiff Station but has had to turn around and go back home because they’ve cancelled all his trains.’" - Andrew Jeffrey, in Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry 

 

Readers and walkers: Steven Hitchins, Nia Davies, Wanda O'Connor, Lyndon Davies, Frances Presley, Samantha Walton, Erin Robinsong, Penny Hallas, Tilla Brading, Jane Lewis, Camilla Nelson, Andrew Jeffrey, David Ashford, Matti Spence.

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Film by Penny Hallas and Lyndon Davies. Edited by Steven Hitchins.