Excerpts from pages of: Veneration of Ordinary Mysteries for @testun__testun for @artesmundi in response to @kameelahr exhibition at @glynnvivian I have written in the margins to make a new text. Means a lot to have been invited by @hotel_et_al @evolutionofbeauty_01 & @accu___ to perform with them and @rhodrijd at @glynnvivian 🌚✨🙏🏾

The final text for beside/gerllaw, by Dylan Huw, is now available to read on our website! Click the link in bio! 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a seven-part new writing series created in partnership with Testun testun for Artes Mundi 11. Dylan's contribution, ON IT, IN IT, is a diaristic account of the collaborative intimacies which anchor the series and the broader Testun testun project. Functioning both as a coda to the preceding texts and as the conclusion of Testun testun's first public programmes, the piece is composed of non-linear observational fragments and reflections on “beside" as an artistic/political framework. @testun__testun ’s programmes are convened by artist-writer (and AM10 journal editor) Dylan Huw. This new independent platform champions expanded art writing practices across Wales. --- Mae seithfed darn cyfres beside/gerllaw, gan Dylan Huw, ar gael i’w ddarllen nawr ar ein gwefan! Dolen yn y bio! 🔗 Cyfres o saith comisiwn sgwennu yw beside/gerllaw, wedi’i greu gyda Testun testun yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Mae cyfraniad Dylan, ON IT, IN IT, yn gofnod dyddiadurol o broses ddatblygu gydweithredol cyfres beside/gerllaw a phrosiect ehangach Testun testun. Mae'n treiddio i ystyr "gerllaw" fel agwedd a fel methodoleg, ar ffurf pytiau arsylwadol a phersonol yn dogfennu cyfnod yr hydref ym mywyd (gwaith) yr awdur: coda i'r chwe testun blaenorol, a diweddglo rhaglen gyntaf Testun testun. Caiff rhaglenni Testun testun eu rhedeg gan yr artist-awdur Dylan Huw. Mae’n blatfform annibynnol i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf gyfoes yng Nghymru. @testun__testun @dylan__huw @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britishcouncilwales @britisharts

😀 nawr arlein now online 😀 31 myfyrdod gan artistiaid & sgwenwyr Cymru ar y flwyddyn a fu mewn celf, geirie, profi & teimlo pethe.  What happened in 2025? 31 reflections on looking, being moved & feeling feelings in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 over the last 12 months. 👁️ testun.xyz/2025 👁️ 👁️ testun.xyz/2025 👁️ 👁️ testun.xyz/2025 👁️ @farahallibhai @llinosanwyll @gwenillwyd @aur_bleddyn @clare_charles_ @durre_s @davidmichaelcleary @humanres0urce @ffenast @dyfanlewis @kathryn_ashill @rebecca__gould @iestyn_tyne @notabrothel @diffwys_criafol @kayleyroberts_ @hollyslingsby @angharadwilliams @dylan__huw @georgehwale @a_nice_island @hannannannanananannnn @gwenllianspink @makschram @cyfunoliaeth @tudir @owainmcgilvary @melissa__appleton @angeladaviesartist Hwyl yr wyl + blwyddyn newydd annibyniaeth-i-Gymru i bawb xx 3: A Frontier in Depth @hannannannanananannnn 4: hoard of four Middle Bronze Age gold armlets stolen from Sain Ffagan 5: @taihafhebdrigolyn   6: The Rest of Our Lives @fong.jo + @georgeorange

Looking for something to read over Christmas? 📖 Dive into six texts for beside/gerllaw, featuring contributions by Becca Voelcker, Lowri Hedd Vaughan, Mars da Silva Saude, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Fern Thomas and Anushiye Yarnell. Click the link in bio to read 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a series of texts specially produced for Artes Mundi 11 with Testun testun, a new independent platform fostering expanded art/writing practices in Wales. This seven-part series grounds the work of the AM11 artists within some of the ecologies, politics and histories of this part of the world – and its deep-rooted networks of critically engaged practice. Each contributor builds associations between their own research and experience and motifs or thematics present in one AM11 artist’s work, with a particular sensitivity to embodiment and sitedness. The seventh and last part of the series, by writer and series editor Dylan Huw, will be available in the New Year! --- Ydych chi’n chwilio am rywbeth i'w ddarllen dros y Nadolig? 📖 Beth am droi at chwe thestun ar gyfer beside/gerllaw, gan Becca Voelcker, Lowri Hedd Vaughan, Mars da Silva Saude, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Fern Thomas ac Anushiye Yarnell. Cliciwch y ddolen yn y bio i ddarllen 🔗 Mae beside/gerllaw yn gyfres o destunau a gynhyrchwyd yn arbennig ar gyfer Artes Mundi 11 gyda Testun testun, llwyfan annibynnol newydd i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf estynedig yng Nghymru. Mae'r gyfres saith rhan hon yn gosod gwaith artistiaid AM11 o fewn rhai o ecolegau, gwleidyddiaeth a hanes y rhan hon o'r byd – a'i rwydweithiau eang o ymarfer critigol-gelfyddydol. Mae pob cyfrannwr yn meithrin cysylltiadau rhwng ei ymchwil a'i brofiad ei hun a motiffau neu themâu sy'n bresennol yng ngwaith un o artistiaid AM11, gyda sensitifrwydd penodol i ymgorfforiad a lleoliad. Bydd seithfed rhan a rhan olaf y gyfres, gan y sgwennwr Dylan Huw, golygydd beside/gerllaw, ar gael yn y flwyddyn newydd! @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britishcouncilwales @britisharts

The sixth commissioned text for beside/gerllaw, by Anushiye Yarnell, is now available to read on our website! Click the link in bio 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a seven-part writing series created in partnership with Testun testun for Artes Mundi 11. ‘VENERATION of ORDINARY MYSTERIES’ departs from Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s research-based practice, encountered via interviews and exhibition documentation (showing in Swansea and Cardiff as part of Artes Mundi 11). Together they make up a restlessly moving essay on vulnerability and control, learning and unlearning, somatic bonds and cultural residues, and what it means to “gather a home around stories.” We suggest you press play, close your eyes, and let Anushiye’s voice guide you. @testun__testun 's programmes are convened by artist-writer (and AM10 journal editor) Dylan Huw. This new independent platform champions expanded art and writing practices across Wales. -- Mae chweched darn cyfres beside/gerllaw, gan Anushiye Yarnell, ar gael i’w ddarllen nawr ar ein gwefan! Cliciwch y ddolen yn y bio 🔗 Cyfres o saith comisiwn sgwennu yw beside/gerllaw, wedi’i greu gyda Testun testun yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Cychwynbwynt ‘VENERATION of ORDINARY MYSTERIES’ yw practis ymchwiliol Kameelah Janan Rasheed, a brofwyd trwy gyfweliadau a dogfennaeth o’i harddangosfeydd (sydd ar ddangos yn Abertawe a Caerdydd fel rhan o Artes Mundi 11). Gyda’i gilydd, maen nhw’n adeiladu ysgrif hynod deimladwy (a di-flino) am fregusrwydd a rheolaeth, dysgu a dad-ddysgu, bondiau somatig a “cultural residues,” a’r hyn y mae’n ei olygu i ymgynnull cartref o amgylch straeon. Awgrymwn i ti bwyso play, cau dy lygaid, a gadael i lais Anushiye dy dywys. Caiff rhaglenni @testun__testun eu rhedeg gan yr artist-awdur Dylan Huw. Mae’n blatfform annibynnol i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf gyfoes yng Nghymru. @anushiyeyarnell @kameelahr #ArtesMundi11 #NationalLottery @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britisharts

The fifth commissioned text for beside/gerllaw, by Fern Thomas, is now available to read on our website! Click the link in bio 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a seven-part writing series created in partnership with Testun testun for Artes Mundi 11. Spirals recur in the work of Antonio Paucar, showing in Llandudno and Cardiff as part of Artes Mundi 11: one of his many motifs recasting inherited aesthetic hierarchies from an Indigenous Andean perspective. Responding to this work, Fern Thomas has pursued her own spirals, in language, drawing and movement, in tandem with practice-based research in Wales’ national prehistoric archaeology collections. @testun__testun ’s programmes are convened by artist-writer (and AM10 journal editor) Dylan Huw. This new independent platform champions expanded art and writing practices across Wales. -- Mae pumed rhan cyfres beside/gerllaw, gan Fern Thomas, ar gael i’w ddarllen nawr ar ein gwefan! Cliciwch y ddolen yn y bio 🔗 Cyfres o saith comisiwn sgwennu yw beside/gerllaw, wedi’i greu gyda Testun testun yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Mae troellau’n ymddangos drosodd a drosodd yng ngwaith Antonio Paucar (sydd yn Llandudno a Caerdydd fel rhan o Artes Mundi 11), fel ffordd o ail-lunio hierarchaethau esthetig o safbwynt brodorol Andeaidd. Fel ymateb i’w waith, mae Fern Thomas wedi dilyn ei throellau ei hun, mewn iaith, darlunio a gwaith symud, dan ddylanwad ei hymchwil yn ein casgliadau archaeoleg cyn-hanesyddol cenedlaethol. Caiff rhaglenni @testun__testun eu rhedeg gan yr artist-awdur Dylan Huw. Mae’n blatfform annibynnol i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf gyfoes yng Nghymru. @_fernthomas @antoniopaucar_g #ArtesMundi11 #NationalLottery @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britisharts

The fourth commissioned text for beside/gerllaw, by Kandace Siobhan Walker, is now available to read on our website! Link in bio 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a seven-part writing series created in partnership with Testun testun for Artes Mundi 11. A single object – a banjo purchased as the writer’s birthday present to herself – activates worlds of poetic-theoretical associations. Building from the sound installations staged by Anawana Haloba in Aberystwyth and Cardiff for Artes Mundi 11 – which are underpinned by the artist’s long-term exploration of the politics and poetics of objects in post-independence Zambia – ‘Magic Banjo’ calls on its reader to question assumptions about how the sonic world is produced, how we receive its sounds in our bodies, and how their waves attain meaning. @testun__testun ’s programmes are convened by artist-writer (and AM10 journal editor) Dylan Huw. This new independent platform champions expanded art and writing practices across Wales. -- Mae pedwerydd rhan cyfres beside/gerllaw, gan Kandace Siobhan Walker, ar gael i’w ddarllen nawr ar ein gwefan! Dolen yn y bio 🔗 Cyfres o saith comisiwn sgwennu yw beside/gerllaw, wedi’i greu gyda Testun testun yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Mae un gwrthrych – banjo prynodd yr awdur fel presant penblwydd i’w hun – yn bywiogi bydoedd o gysylltiadau barddonol-athronyddol. Mae’n ymateb i sainosodiadau Anawana Haloba, sy’n dangos yn Aberystwyth a Caerdydd trwy gydol Artes Mundi 11 a sy’n ymwneud â chymhlethdodau gwrthrychau yn y Zambia ôl-annibynnol. Galwa ‘Magic Banjo’ ar y darllenydd i ail-ystyried unrhyw ragsyniadau am sut caiff y byd sain ei gynhyrchu; sut ry’n ni’n derbyn synnau yn ein cyrff; a sut maen nhw’n magu arwyddocâd. Caiff rhaglenni @testun__testun eu rhedeg gan yr artist-awdur Dylan Huw. Mae’n blatfform annibynnol i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf gyfoes yng Nghymru. @kandacesiobhan @anniehaloba #ArtesMundi11 #NationalLottery @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britisharts

“Do I want to make work for a human audience? Or is that not what's important?” @manon_awst The final episode of 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 is a dialogue between Manon Awst and Naomi Pearce: on thresholds, mortuaries, “temporal stickiness,” vertigo in the archive, cynghanedd, performative investigations, stakeholders, sinking, and more. Like every episode in the series, it contains extensive shownotes, samples of the artists’ recent work, and a specially-written intro. 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 is funded by the Jerwood New Work Fund, and produced by @dylan__huw + @freya_dooley . Full series now available across all podcast platforms. Dyma rannu pennod olaf cyfres gyntaf 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉, yng nghwmni Manon Awst a Naomi Pearce. Maen nhw’n trafod eu cyrff estynedig o waith sy’n canoli safleoedd a hanesion corsydd Cymreig; cydweithio o wahanol fathau ac ar wahanol raddfeydd; geiriau fel deunydd materol; a lot mwy. Mae rhestr o ddolenni ar gael am bob dim sy’n cael ei drafod yn y bennod. Ariannwyd 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 gan y Jerwood New Work Fund, a’r cynhyrchwyr yw Dylan Huw a Freya Dooley.

The third commissioned text for beside/gerllaw, by Mars da Silva Saude, is now available to read on our website! Link in bio 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a seven-part writing series created in partnership with Testun testun for Artes Mundi 11. The artist-filmmaker’s roving, border-crossing spin on the first-person essay emulates the “memory banditry” at play in Sawangwongse Yawnghwe’s flower paintings, currently showing in Aberystwyth as part of Artes Mundi 11. Beginning with the California poppies blooming in their garden in Aberystwyth, their adopted hometown, Saude pursues disparate lines of psychogeographical association, which emphasise the ways inter/personal relations are defined by macropolitical currents. @testun__testun ’s programmes are convened by artist-writer (and AM10 journal editor) Dylan Huw. This new independent platform champions expanded art and writing practices across Wales. -- Mae trydydd rhan cyfres beside/gerllaw, gan Mars da Silva Saude, ar gael i’w ddarllen nawr ar ein gwefan! Dolen yn y bio 🔗 Cyfres o saith comisiwn sgwennu yw beside/gerllaw, wedi’i greu gyda Testun testun yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Mewn arddull aflonydd a di-ffin, efelycha ysgrif person-cyntaf yr artist “memory banditry” gwaith Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, sydd ar ddangos yn Aberystwyth fel rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Gan gychwyn o’r pabi Califforniaidd sy’n blodeuo yn eu gardd yn Aberystwyth, dilyna Mars sawl trywydd o gyswllt seicoddaearyddol, i amlygu’r ffyrdd caiff cysylltiadau rhyng/bersonol eu dylanwadu gan geryntau gwleidyddol byd-eang a di-amser. Caiff rhaglenni @testun__testun eu rhedeg gan yr artist-awdur Dylan Huw. Mae’n blatfform annibynnol i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf gyfoes yng Nghymru. @marsdasilvasaude #SawangwongseYawnghwe @janelombardgallery @tkg_plus #ArtesMundi11 #NationalLottery @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britisharts

“This is a thing that people can do: they can just get together and make rituals.” @ahklmruuy Radha Patel and Umulkhayr Mohamed, who collaborate as DARCH, are the guests on episode four of 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉, available across podcast platforms today. Centring their recent installation for the @liverpoolbiennial – which is being restaged at venues across Wales in 2026! – their conversation goes deep on the networks, references, and politics which guide their process. The episode includes sonic excerpts from several of the duo’s recent projects, along with extensive shownotes and a specially-written intro. 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 is funded by the Jerwood New Work Fund, and produced by @dylan__huw + @freya_dooley . 🎆 Mae pennod 4 cyfres 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 ar gael nawr, gyda DARCH, neu @a_nice_island ac @ahklmruuy . Y prif destun trafod yw’r corff o waith crëon nhw, o’u stiwdio yng Nghaerdydd, ar gyfer y Liverpool Biennial eleni, sy’n dychmygu trywyddau’r ddwy artist ar ôl iddyn nhw farw a chael eu claddu’n y ddaear ar wahân. Cynhyrchwyr 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉, a gyllidir gan y Jerwood New Work Fund, yw Dylan Huw a Freya Dooley.

Mae ail ran cyfres beside/gerllaw, gan Lowri Hedd Vaughan, ar gael i’w ddarllen nawr ar ein gwefan! Dolen yn y bio 🔗 Cyfres o saith comisiwn sgwennu yw beside/gerllaw, wedi’i greu gyda Testun testun yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Dilyniant o gerddi tyner – sy’n symud yn gelfydd rhwng y Gymraeg a’r Saesneg, ffurfiau barddonol a rhyddiaethol, a lleisiau person-cyntaf a chasglebol – gan Lowri Hedd Vaughan yw’r ail gomisiwn yng nghyfres beside/gerllaw. Fel rhywun â diddordeb brwd mewn dwr fel deunydd creadigol-farddonol, sydd â’r gallu i’n gwreiddio mewn lle ac i’n cymryd i oesoedd a lleoliadau eraill, cafodd ei hysgogi gan waith hir-dymor yr artist Jumana Emil Abboud, sy’n dangos corff o waith yn Mostyn, Llandudno, a’r Amgueddfa Genedlaethol yng Nghaerdydd, yn rhan o Artes Mundi 11. Caiff rhaglenni @testun_testun eu rhedeg gan yr artist-awdur Dylan Huw. Mae’n blatfform annibynnol i feithrin arferion sgwennu/celf gyfoes yng Nghymru. -- The second commissioned text for beside/gerllaw, by Lowri Hedd Vaughan, is now available to read on our website! Link in bio 🔗 beside/gerllaw is a seven-part writing series created in partnership with Testun testun for Artes Mundi 11. A sequence of poems by Lowri Hedd Vaughan is the second instalment of beside/gerllaw. Artfully oscillating between Cymraeg/Welsh and English, between prose and lyric, and between first-person and collective address, the writer responds to the practice of Jumana Emil Abboud, who is showing a body of work in Mostyn, Llandudno, and Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff, as part of Artes Mundi 11. These artists share a deep-rooted fascination with water – as resource, as material, as political substance – and an investment in its capacity to both ground us in place and transport us to other temporal and geographical contexts. @testun_testun ’s programmes are convened by artist-writer Dylan Huw. This new independent platform champions expanded art writing practices in Wales. @geiriaugwain @jumanasan #ArtesMundi11 #NationalLottery @celfcymruarts @bagrifoundation @cardiffmet @colwinstoncharitabletrust @art_casw @derekwilliamstrust @britisharts

“When I'm making my work, I'm building theme parks.” @kathryn_ashill Today we share the third episode of 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉, a wide-ranging conversation between Kath Ashill and Rebecca Gould about their recent + ongoing work, accessible wherever you get your podcasts. Sampled in this episode: a reading from Rebecca’s novel-in-progress, a video work by @studiocybi , and a new iteration of a performance by Kath originally presented at Threshold @chapterartscentre . Their discussion is accompanied, like every episode in the series, by extensive shownotes and a specially-written intro. 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 is funded by the Jerwood New Work Fund, and produced by @dylan__huw + @freya_dooley . 🌀 Gwesteion pennod tri 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 yw @kathryn_ashill a @rebecca__gould , a ddaeth o’r Barri ac Ynys Cybi i Gaernarfon i recordio sgwrs gyfoethog am yr hyn sy’n gyrru eu bywydau artistig ar hyn o bryd. Ariannwyd 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒏/𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 gan y Jerwood New Work Fund, a’r cynhyrchwyr yw Dylan Huw a Freya Dooley.