Performance Art Land Wales 2025
Focusing on Wales and its culture, PAL 2025 edition commissions two artists respectively from China and Japan and two Welsh artists to develop new performance art works on natural and heritage sites in the region. These performances were filmed for screening and events at PAL partner institutions in Wales — Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, as well as at those in East Asia, including Fotografiska in Shanghai, and Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.
PAL 2025 was curated by the IVAE curatorial team, led by Jiang Jiehong, and assisted by Associate Curator Kit Edwards from Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. The project was developed over a 15-month research process that included site visits, artist studio visits, and curatorial discussions.
Exhibitions and Events
Performance Art Land 2025
Artists
Angela Davies
Angela Davies, is a Wales born artist. Her work negotiates support systems and the fragile networks they carry. Spanning scale and processes, Davies is often drawn to using organic materials to explore ideas of transformation. She works across sculpture, installation, video and performance.
Tsubasa Kato
Tsubasa Kato is a Japanese contemporary artist who produces video, photographic, and other works involving performances in which multiple participants are prompted to engage in collaboration. He is highly acclaimed for the numerous studies and projects he has conducted around the globe. His projects and installations challenge the viewer to reconceive their sense of distance, resilience, balance, and connection between individuals.
Li Binyuan
Li Binyuan was born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province, China in 1985, and graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. Now he lives and works in Berlin and Yongzhou. Li explores physicality, substance, environment, conceptual cognition, and social values through physical actions, video works, and performances, which serve as the portal to the social fabric of everyday society.
Anushiye Yarnell
Anushiye Yarnell is an interdisciplinary performance artist based in Wales. Anuahiye's work spans movement, sound, voice, text, drawing, participation & alternative pedagogies. Her work culminates, celebrates, congregates through symbiotic, anti segregative ways of being, examining the intersections of dream and fantasy realms with ordinary life to find connections between day-to-day experiences of the world and anthropological, philosophical, poetic, and artistic frameworks.
International Advisory Board
Alice Koegel
Head of Exhibitions,
Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany
Nigel Prince
Director,
Artes Mundi, Wales
Suh Jinsuk
Director,
Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
Yuu Takehisa
Artistic Director,
Art Tower Mito, Japan
