Guest artist MARCUS COATES
joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves. Published in 1929, this short poem is a retelling of an overhead conversation about "un-Welsh" creatures emerging from the sea.
Marcus and Jillian's conversation encompasses longing, empathy, humour, grasping, death, wolves, psychosis, parenting, migration, birds, badgers, unknowability, parenting, morality, predators, blindfolding, eagles, immigration and a willingness to be uplifted. Also: feeling inadequate, religious conformity, instinctive behaviours, war experiences, emptying yourself, the mundane, sounding pathetic, false destinations, exploitation of care, limitations of language, modes of relating, suspension of disbelief, de-centring of humanity, failure of the imagination, the ripple effect of artworks, plaster on a broken leg, stark realities of survival, travelling in the mind, proliferation of domestic cats, and the human need to buy in, to belong, to believe.
MARCUS COATES
@marcus_coates_
'Conference of the Birds'
katemacgarry.com/artworks/9111-marcus-coates-conference-for-the-birds-2019/
'The Trip'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAuRv0xv8M
'The Directors'
artangel.org.uk/project/the-directors/
'Sunbird for Palestine'
bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/palestine-sunbird/
'Dawn Chorous'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1uihdcZmY
'The Last of its Kind'
workplace.art/exhibitions/the-last-of-its-kind
'Nature Calendar'
katemacgarry.com/artworks/10446-marcus-coates-nature-calendar-2022/
'Finfolk'
COLLABORATORS
Helen Macdonald 'H is for Hawk'
Jeff Samples
ARTISTS & PERFORMERS
Brian Catling
Fiona Curran 'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please'
Helen Chadwick
Marylin Munroe
Richard Ayodeji Ikhide
Richard Burton
Thomas Bewick
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Anna Burns 'The Milkman'
Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman'
Robert Graves 'Welsh Incident'
GALLERIES & ART ORGS
Artangel
Freize Art Fair
Kate MacGarry
Royal Academy
The Serpentine
FILM
'The Boy and the Heron' Hayao Miyazake for Studio Ghibli
RESEARCH ARTICLE
theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/12/why-birdsong-matters-more-than-you-think
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