Thursday 25 September 2025
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Performance Art Land 2025’s Launch Event will present a series of Artist Talks and roundtable discussions.
It will present four participating artists as well as collaborating art practitioners, including Angela Davies, Tsubasa Kato, Li Binyuan, Anushiye Yarnell, the discussion will be joined by the IVAE team, project partner Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, and international partner Yangnim Art Association.
The event aims to showcase the artists’ research on site-specific performance practices in Wales and provide a platform for sharing their latest findings, methodologies, and reflections on newly developed projects. Attendees will also be encouraged to engage in discussions on Welsh local heritage and culture, site-specific performance art, and related broader themes.
Free, everyone welcome. Booking essential.
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Performance Art Land is an art project focusing on contemporary performance art practices, conducted by International Visual Arts Exchange.
Performance Art Land 2025 (PAL) is specifically tailored in Wales for its artists, organisations, heritage, culture, and for it’s local communities and audiences. Through this pioneering art project of its kind worldwide, they are supporting cross-cultural exchange and collaboration between creative minds and bodies, to promote site-specificity and site-sustainability, and stage the global climate emergency through art practices.
Performance Art Land 2025 invites two artists from East Asia (China, Japan) and two artists from Wales to conduct site-specific performance art at natural and outdoor heritage sites in Wales. These sites, including nature reserves, tourist attractions, and cultural landmarks, provide an inspiring space for incubating new understandings through artistic and curatorial discussions. The performances will be translated as films and exhibited at PAL partner institutions in Wales — Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, as well as at partner institutions in East Asia, including Fotografiska in Shanghai, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and Busan Art Museum in Busan.
IVAE
IVAE (International Visual Arts Exchange) is a UK-based non-profit art organisation. It acts as a unique bridge to support and celebrate cross-cultural exchanges between the East and West in the context of contemporary art. It is a laboratory to innovate curatorial strategies and diverse methods for artistic practices through acknowledgement of cultural differences, perspectives of understandings, and approaches in translation.
Angela Davies
Angela Davies, is a Wales born artist. Her work negotiates support systems and the fragile networks they carry. Spanning scale and processes, Davies is often drawn to using organic materials to explore ideas of transformation. She works across sculpture, installation, video, and performance.
Davies completed her Masters at Manchester School of Art in 2013. She currently has a solo show at Plas Glyn y Weddw in Wales (2025). Her work has been exhibited at Currents, Sante Fe (2025), Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2022), Glynn Vivian, Swansea (2024), IKT/Mostyn, Llandudno (2023), S12 Galleri Bergen, Norway (2018) and V2 Lab for the Unstable Media, Netherlands (2018). Selected awards include Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales – Future Wales Fellowship (2022), Creative Wales Award (2019), ESRC Impact Accelerator Award at Bangor University(2018), Innovate UK (2018), A-N (2020). Selected residencies include Alps Art Academy (2018), National Theatre Wales (2018), HOME Manchester (2016), Pervasive Media Studio Bristol (Since 2017) and Cadw (2015-2018). www.angeladaviesartist.co.uk
Li Binyuan
Li Binyuan was born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province,China in 1985, and graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. Now he lives and works in Berlin and Yongzhou. Li explores physicality, substance, environment, conceptual cognition, and social values through physical actions, video works, and performances, which serve as the portal to the social fabric of everyday society.
Li’s works have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, and are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, M+, and other art institutions. Selected solo exhibitions include Becoming Li Binyuan, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China (2025), Flowing Fire, Contemporary Gallery Kunming, Kunming, China (2024), Cinema Paradiso, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2020), The Last Letter, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China，2020). Li is the winner of The Grand Prize Winner of the 17th Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2021), The Chinese Youth Artist Award of the 14th AAC Art (2020), The Golden Key Award nomination at the 37th Kassel Documentary Festival (2020), The Merit Award by Inward Gazes – Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art (2015). https://libinyuan.com
Tsubasa Kato
Tsubasa Kato is a Japanese contemporary artist who produces video, photographic, and other works involving performances in which multiple participants are prompted to engage in collaboration. He is highly acclaimed for the numerous studies and projects he has conducted around the globe. His projects and installations challenge the viewer to reconceive their sense of distance, resilience, balance, and connection between individuals.
Kato’s works have been showcased in numerous prestigious art museums and institutions worldwide, and are included in the permanent collection of the Mori Art Museum, The National Museum of Art, and other art institutions. Selected solo shows include Crematorium, MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo, Japan (2025), Turf and Perimeter, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2021). Group shows include MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2024), NTCAM On the Move: Interweaving Travelers, New Taipei City Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2023), The Ulsan Art Museum Collection: Future Collection” Ulsan Museum, Ulsan, Korea (2023). https://katoutsubasa.com
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/
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