Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus | Accecare l’ascolto/Aveugler l’écoute/Blinding the ears. Action, Behaviour, Performance, Instant Theatre in Turin
8 November 2009
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Bedwyr Williams, Mini Bus, November 8th, 2009. Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni
Produced by Nomas Foundation, Rome on the occasion of 
Accecare l'ascolto/Aveugler l’écoute/Blinding the ears. Action, Behaviour, Performance, Instant Theatre in Turin
, project conceived and curated by Andrea Bellini in the frame of 
Artissima 16

.

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 12
.00am
Teatro della Cavallerizza Reale, Manica Corta, Via Verdi 9, Turin.

Driving home one day in a mini bus with four other artists in residence – when the brakes fail on a mountain pass.
Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist who works with performance and installation. Employing both engaged criticality and surrealistic humor, the artist explores contemporary issues of identity, location and culture, often developing work from his own autobiographic existence. Bedwyr Williams represented Wales with his solo project Basta at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
Common to his practice, Mini bus stems from a line in a previous performance, Methodist to my Madness (2009).
In this new commissioned performance, the action takes place in the immediate aftermath of a road accident where five artists in residence have careered off the road on the way back home to their accommodation.
Four of the five artists were free spirits, they didn’t follow conventions and were not wearing seat-belts. As Bedwyr Williams did wear his belt, he is the only survivor and it is his monologue – framed by the uncanny landscape of an Alpine pass – which forms the performance.
Relationships between artists in residence run the whole gamut from indifference via love all the way to hate and violence, depending on the combination of personalities.
Employing black humor and insight, Mini bus challenges the rules and conventions of artists residencies, confronting us with their most hidden side.
Bedwyr Williams (Wales, 1974)
Williams is an artist who works on the periphery both in terms of what he creates and where he works he chooses to live in a small village in North Wales. It is no coincidence then that his work deals with issues of place and identity. Treading a fine line between they humorous and the tragic he outlines alternate realities and view points through the various different guises and characters. He chooses them carefully however as a line from his 2008 performance Methodist to my Madness explains "When I perform I always choose a costume I would be happy to be rescued in".