Abstract
Ffotogallery launched the fourth biennial edition of Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales' largest visual arts festival, this week. Taking place throughout April 2019 this edition will be guided by the theme of Sound+Vision. Featuring a month long programme of exhibitions, interventions, screenings, performances, events and celebrations in both physical and virtual spaces and places. The excitement of directly participating in the festival, and the international reach and visibility of the event, is further enhanced through printed and online publications, websites, mobile content and discussion on social media platforms.
Diffusion explores the relationship between sound - music in particular - and photography and lens-based media. The festival will showcase the latest applications of VR, expanded photography and other digital technologies, and build on collaborative links between Welsh artists, media producers and companies who are working internationally in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East.
Diffusion Festival Director David Drake explains:
“Our aim is to share with event visitors and online audiences Wales’ strengths in digital creativity, photography, music and film and to demonstrate the vibrancy and global reach of our arts and creative industries”
Some of the highlights inculde:
In 2008, photographer Michal Iwanowski came across a small graffiti in his neighbourhood in Cardiff, and it spelt ‘Go home Polish’. A decade later, after the divisive Brexit referendum, Iwanowski set off on a 1900km journey, on foot, between his two homes - Wales and Poland - a British passport in one hand, a Polish one in the other. His goal was to ask people about home, in a journey that would take 105 days to complete. With a soundtrack by Gwenno, the resulting exhibition Go Home Polish recounts the tale of that epic journey.
Diffusion explores the relationship between sound - music in particular - and photography and lens-based media. The festival will showcase the latest applications of VR, expanded photography and other digital technologies, and build on collaborative links between Welsh artists, media producers and companies who are working internationally in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East.
Diffusion Festival Director David Drake explains:
“Our aim is to share with event visitors and online audiences Wales’ strengths in digital creativity, photography, music and film and to demonstrate the vibrancy and global reach of our arts and creative industries”
Some of the highlights inculde:
In 2008, photographer Michal Iwanowski came across a small graffiti in his neighbourhood in Cardiff, and it spelt ‘Go home Polish’. A decade later, after the divisive Brexit referendum, Iwanowski set off on a 1900km journey, on foot, between his two homes - Wales and Poland - a British passport in one hand, a Polish one in the other. His goal was to ask people about home, in a journey that would take 105 days to complete. With a soundtrack by Gwenno, the resulting exhibition Go Home Polish recounts the tale of that epic journey.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |