{"id":32275,"date":"2019-02-12T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=32275"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:40:10","slug":"imagining-welsh-600-years-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/02\/12\/imagining-welsh-600-years-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Welsh, 600 years into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_32284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32284\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32284\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-770x431.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-2048x1147.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-293x164.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1400x784.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32284\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-770x431.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-2048x1147.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-293x164.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/Tongue-High-Res-For-Print-1400x784.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/noscript> Paul Eastwood, Iaith Bwystnon, Film Still, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAS an American, the first time I heard Welsh for any length of time was at Paul Eastwood\u2019s new art exhibit at Chapter.<br \/>\nHowever, 30 seconds into an interview with him, I learned that the language I had been listening to was not technically Welsh.<br \/>\nInstead, it was an imagined Welsh from 600 years into the future.<br \/>\nMr Eastwood, 34, is a Welsh artist who has used Welsh as a medium in his most recent audio-visual exhibit called Dyfodiaith \u2013 Singing to an unknown future.<br \/>\nThe exhibit premiered at Chapter on February 9, 2019.<br \/>\nAudiences are ushered into a dark room with a screen at one end and only a couple of rows of benches in front.<br \/>\nAn eerie, almost lyrical, version of Welsh plays through headphones as the audience watches images such as tongue and bones appear on the screen.<br \/>\nMr Eastwood told me this version of Welsh was based on Ebargofiant, a Welsh novel by Jerry Hunter.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32301\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-32301 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32301 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1-293x165.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/performance-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript> Paul Eastwood, Iaith Bwystnon, Film Still, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThis book, which I was told is hard to read even for native Welsh speakers, imagines a young boy in the future trying to communicate in Welsh after the ability to read and write has become rare.<br \/>\nThe language used in this book is a future Welsh that uses Xs and 1s as letters.<br \/>\nMr Eastwood told me the motivation for this project was to consider how it is possible to construct a language.<br \/>\n\u201cThe root of the project was to try to bring sets of people, specialists, together and problem-solve.<br \/>\n\u201cI am being very basic, and silly at times, but I wanted to offer alternatives and opportunities to say what happens when we make a type of work entirely in Welsh language.<br \/>\n\u201cIt happens to be that Welsh language isn\u2019t even Welsh. But a future Welsh or a past Welsh,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nWhen listening to this version of Welsh, native speakers would only understand 60 per cent of it.<br \/>\nThis exhibit was also influenced by Mr Eastwood\u2019s own experience with Welsh.<br \/>\nMr Eastwood learned to speak fluently at a Welsh language primary school. As his family doesn\u2019t speak the language, he mostly has an academic relationship with the language.<br \/>\nThis experience helped him deconstruct the language and transform it to something new.<br \/>\n\u201cThe one problem I have had is the poetics of the language. Literally mashing up all these words to make sentences. They lose their meaning once translated,\u201d said Mr Eastwood before he grabbed a piece of paper left on the table to show me what he meant.<br \/>\n\u201cSo Arwynebedd means surface area, like the surface area of a table. And that is just one word. And then I thought I could see words in this word,\u201d he added, writing out \u2018Ar,\u2019 \u2018Wyneb,\u2019 and \u2018bedd\u2019 as three separate words.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32292\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-32292 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-770x470.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-500x305.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-293x179.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-1400x855.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32292 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-770x470.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-500x305.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-293x179.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891-1400x855.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/notes-1-e1549980424891.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript> A photo of Paul Eastwood&#8217;s note<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u201cThis means on the face of the grave. And when I wrote that, I showed some people who are fluent Welsh speakers, and they told me that they had never seen that. I was trying to rip the language apart, like you would rip the skin off a bone and see what was underneath.\u201d<br \/>\nAfter finishing school in Wales, Mr Eastwood moved to London for the Royal Academy and Wimbledon School of art, and then to Tokyo and India for a couple months at a time.<br \/>\nThis experience made him question what it meant to be British and Welsh. This question has been incorporated into his art.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are actually many types of Britishness, and I would like to think that Welsh is a valued element of Britishness.<br \/>\n\u201cIt isn\u2019t just a long-forgotten language. You have nearly 600,000 people speaking it, using it every day and with their children. Using it on all types of life. And I wanted to add to that story, and bring new audiences in.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The exhibit will be at Chapter until March 1, 2019<strong>. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS an American, the first time I heard Welsh for any length of time was at Paul Eastwood\u2019s new art exhibit at Chapter. However, 30 seconds into an interview with him, I learned that the language I had been listening to was not technically Welsh. Instead, it was an imagined Welsh from 600 years into the future. 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