VIGIL
A new video installation by Ruth Jones
Exhibition runs Sunday 5th
- Saturday 11th April 10.30am - 4pm
Tregwynt Manor Ballroom, near St Nicholas,
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
Recent work by Ruth Jones has focused
on relationships between humans, animals
and the land in Pembrokeshire and
explores the magnetic pull that particular
places have for people. Drawing on
mythological crossings between humans
and other animals, Ruth's video installations
and public art projects look towards
greater fluidity between self, others
and the environment.
Vigil explores the presence that Strumble
Head Lighthouse has on the surrounding
landscape in North Pembrokeshire.
Strumble Head was built in 1908, and
its rotating beam can be seen for
thirty miles in all directions. Every
lighthouse has its own distinctive
"character", recognised
by a pattern and duration of flashes,
in this case one flash every two seconds
four times followed by seven seconds
of darkness. Vigil explores how this
rhythm has permeated the land for
over a hundred years, seeping into
the psyche of its inhabitants.
The installation also explores the
lighthouse as a threshold place, situated
between land and sea, day and night
and human and animal kingdoms. Using
Strumble's regulated light pattern
as a guide for editing both picture
and sound, the film invites a quiet
contemplation of the internal and
external rhythms that influence our
daily experiences, rituals and memories.
On the opening night, GWRANDO will
perform a live sonic event that responds
to and interacts with the installation.
This sonic arts collective was founded
in 2007 by Lou Laurens and Jacob Whittaker
and aims to provide a locus and forum
for its members, and to develop time
based and live arts by hosting and
promoting events in Ceredigion and
beyond.
