Event Info
Gallery 1 Guided Tour: Audio Description 21.02.26, 11:00-12:00
Join Artes Mundi 11 Engagement Producer, Elena Blackmore and Naomi Heath on this special audio description tour of Anawana Haloba and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe’s artworks on display at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
The exhibition forms part of Artes Mundi 11, the UK’s leading biennial exhibition of international contemporary art. This specially designed tour for blind and visually impaired people will give you an insight into the artist’s practice and provide a powerful mental image that will illuminate the work and ideas contained within.
Guide dogs are welcome. We advise that you bring a sighted-guide or companion with you. We will have a limited number of staff available to assist on the day.
The tour will take place on the ground floor of Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Gallery 1. Light and sound levels in the galleries will be adjusted. The exhibition consists of paintings and a sculptural sound installation.
If you would like to request any additional access support or to contact us with any questions, please email abby.poulson@artesmundi.org
Please note, if you wish to bring a sighted guide or companion with you, please book a ticket for each attendee.
Gallery 1 Guided Tour: British Sign Language 28.02.26, 11:00-12:00
Artes Mundi is partnering with Our Visual World network to deliver a BSL tour of the Artes Mundi 11 presentation at Aberystwyth Arts Centre led by a professionally trained Deaf artist guide, Kate Evans.
This tour is designed for Deaf audiences and will give an overview of the work on show, its context within the wider AM11 exhibition and an insight into the Artists’ practice and background. The relaxed tour will be delivered in British Sign Language.
Spaces are limited and we will have additional staff available to welcome and assist on the day.
If you would like to request any access support or to contact us with any questions, please email abby.poulson@artesmundi.org
Information about the Artists:
Anwana Haloba explores the positions of different societies within varied political, social, economic and cultural contexts, rooted in the ideological and post-independence framework of her home country of Zambia. In gallery 1, Anawana presents a new version of ‘How to (Re)pair my Grandmother’s Basket: An Experimental Opera’ using sounds and sculptural forms in dialogue to traverse geographies, cultures and societies that speak our times.
Sawangwongse Yawnghwe is a Burmese artist whose work deeply engages with the complex history of Myanmar, his family’s exile, and the experiences of ethnic minorities, particularly the Shan. Through painting, he reconstructs historical and personal narratives, and family archive to explore themes of displacement and identity.
