Thursday 12 February 2026
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Hotel Et Al, the collaborative project of Richard James (Evolution of Beauty) and Angharad Van Rijswijk (Accü), are set to debut new music created in response to exhibitions at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
Inspired by both Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s Artes Mundi 11 exhibition and ‘Linder: Danger Came Smiling’ currently showing at the gallery, the musicians have created a series of brand-new pieces of work combining music, sound, and poetry.
Supported by Swansea Council and Menter Iaith Abertawe
The live event will also be supported by NAWR.
Free, BOOK NOW:-
Hotel Et Al at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery event tickets from TicketSource
NAWR (meaning NOW in Welsh) is a multidisciplinary concert series in Swansea and Hay-on-Wye, covering experimental music, free improvisation, film, lo-fi, free jazz, sound art, alternative folk, and new music. NAWR’s work aims to offer an open and reflective space for an audience to experience new music in a welcoming and intimate setting.
Hotel Et Al are composer, musician, sound artist and producer Richard James (Evolution Of Beauty), and composer, musician, producer and sound and visual artist Angharad Van Rijswijk (Accü). They have worked together on various music, sound and visual art projects for over ten years, producing work for radio, installations, live performance and record releases, for Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Contemporary, BBC Radio Cymru and Radio 3, Resonance FM, Cardiff University, Swansea Museum, Swansea International Festival, and Libertino Records.
Anushiye Yarnell
Anushiye Yarnell is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work spans movement, sound, voice, text, drawing, participation & alternative pedagogies. Her work culminates, celebrates, congregates through symbiotic, anti segregative ways of being, examining the intersections of dream and fantasy realms with ordinary life to find connections between day-to-day experiences of the world and anthropological, philosophical, poetic, and artistic frameworks. She works with tactile presence, reviving sensual intelligence through temporal, ongoing bodies-biographies-mythologies, attempting regeneration despite rifts and ruptures imposed by colonial civilisation.
Recent projects include, ARRAY OF OPPOSITES, an immersive participatory movement event drawing on embryological, evolutionary and sacred alchemical sources, commissioned for Experimentica 2024; Syllabus of Darkness, an intergenerational secular Sunday School exploring darkness as material, metaphor and lived experience (National Theatre Wales 2021, ACW 2022, Chapter 2023); and Marathon of Intimacies, a series of dance conversions navigating through the myriad intersections and combinations of “otherness” and “outsiderness” omnipresent within everyday life (Rise Festival Findhorn 2021, MGCfutures Bursary 2022, Chapter 2022 and 2023 Reciprocal Gestures Residency). https://anushiyeyarnell.uk/
Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies is a harpist, improviser, composer and multidisciplinary artist. He plays harp, bray harp, horsehair harp, electric harp and builds wind, water, ice, dry ice and fire harp installations and has released eight solo albums. His regular groups include: HEN OGLEDD, Common Objects and a duo with John Butcher. He has worked with the following artists: Derek Bailey, Hamid Drake, Simon H Fell, Will Gaines, Jenny Hval, Sofia Jernberg, Kahimi Karie, Lina Lapelyte, Nicole Mitchell, Butch Morris, David Sylvian, Pat Thomas and Otomo Yoshihide.
For the last twelve years Davies has been closely associated with the pioneering composer Éliane Radigue performing eighteen of her pieces. She composed OCCAM I for Davies in 2011, the first in an ongoing series of solo and ensemble pieces for individual instrumentalists in which a performer’s personal performance technique and particular relationship to their instrument function as the compositional material of the piece. New pieces for solo harp have also been composed for him by Christian Wolff, Carole Finer, Philip Corner, Mariam Rezaei, Phill Niblock, Ben Patterson, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone.
In 2008 he collaborated with the visual artist Gustav Metzger on ‘Self-cancellation’, a large-scale audio-visual collaboration in London and Glasgow. In 2012 he was the recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists Award, he was a Chapter Associate Artist (2016-19) and in 2017 he received a Creative Wales Award. He is a co-organiser of the NAWR concert series in Abertawe. www.rhodridavies.com
Free, everyone welcome.
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