24.06.26 Rework: John Rowley, Nicholas Perrin + Laura Phillips

Wed 24 June, 7pm

Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

An evening of experimental sound, film, and text-based performances that in various ways REWORK former materials. From artists John Rowley, Nicholas Perrin and Laura Philips.

Part 1: Listening Stations is an expanded 16mm film and sound performance by Laura Phillips that explores how creative documentary can represent the political legacy of a contested landscape. Drawing on research in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) Cymru archives, it reanimates the 1982 Cardiff to Brawdy Peace March through hand-processed film, live projection, sound, and improvisation. By re-working/re-performing/re-remembering, this performance layers contemporary landscapes, field recordings, and testimony, to explore militarisation, memory, and the Welsh commons. The performance foregrounds access, preservation, and collective histories, re-situating the archive as a space for re-commoning and critical reflection.

Part 2: Metamorphosis – Chaos and Creation is a new collaboration between Wales-based performer and theatre-maker John Rowley (Brith Gof. Forced Entertainment, good cop bad cop) and French sonic artist Nicolas Perrin. For this presentation, and for one night only, the artists reimagine Metamorphosis: Chaos and Creation, a previously unperformed text by acclaimed theatre artist, theorist and teacher Mike Pearson (1949-2022). Based on Ovid’s 8th Century magnum opus, Metamorphosis, the poetic text invokes scenes of chaos, creation, transformation and the creation of the world. A live electronic score performed with organic and amplified objects will be improvised in dialogue with the text.

Permission for use of the text kindly granted by Heike Roms Pearson.

Supported by Diaphonique, Franco-British-Irish fund for contemporary music, in partnership with the SACEM, the Friends of the French Institute Trust, the British Council, the Institut français, the Institute français du Royaume-Uni, the Centre National de la Musique, Culture Ireland and the Salabert Fondation.

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John Rowley is a Cardiff-based performer, theatre-maker and multi-disciplinary artist. Throughout the 1990’s/early 2000’s he worked with the Welsh theatre company, Brith Gof. Since 2000 he’s been an associate performer with Forced Entertainment. In 2023, John won the Gold Medal for Visual Art at The National Eisteddfod.

Nicholas Perrin is a French composer and live electronic performer who specialises in electro-acoustic soundscapes made of amplified objects and hybrid instruments. He is the artistic director of the collectif L’Émoi Sonneur.

Laura Phillips is an artist working with 16mm photochemical film, sound and performance. Her works explore ideas of obsolescence, precarity, and collective histories via the intersection of visual music, expanded cinema, and performance. Through salvaging and reworking analogue and digital media, she engages with ideas of the commons, ecology, and politics of information infrastructures. She is a recipient of the British School at Rome Creative Wales Fellowship 2024 and her work is held within the English Arts Council Collection.

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Times & Tickets

• Wednesday 24 June 2026

  1. 7.00pm