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Walking Between Craters
City Centre and Kilvey Hill Walks
Simon Whitehead’s project marks 70 years since the beginning of the devastating bombing of Swansea during the Second World War and most notably the Three Nights Blitz of 1941. Using a series of aerial photographs of the city taken by the Luftwaffe the artist has navigated wartime Swansea and created two maps that invite the participant on walks through the city and on Kilvey hill. These walks act as a palimpsest, revealing how these spaces have been reabsorbed into Swansea’s present landscape and folklore, using a mobile phone at specific viewpoints, the walker may hear voices recalling another time and place.
Maps are free and available from the National Waterfront Museum and Swansea Museum or download one here:
To listen to the recordings use the player below or click here
Walking Between Craters by Simon Whitehead posted by Locws International
Image credits: South Wales Evening Post & National Archive and Records, USA
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Walking Between Craters
Canol y Ddinas ac Taith Gerdded i Fryn Cilfái
Mae prosiect Simon Whitehead yn coffáu 70 mlynedd ers dechrau bomio difrodus Abertawe yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd ac, yn benodol, y Blits Tair Noson ym 1941. Gan ddefnyddio cyfres o awyrluniau o’r ddinas a gymerwyd gan y Luftwaffe, mae’r artist wedi llywio Abertawe yn ystod y rhyfel ac wedi creu dau fap sy’n gwahodd y cyfranogwr ar deithiau cerdded trwy’r ddinas ac ar Fynydd Cilfái. Mae’r teithiau hyn yn gweithredu fel palimpsest gan ddatgelu sut mae’r mannau hyn wedi’i hailamsugno i dirlun a llên gwerin presennol Abertawe. Gan ddefnyddio ffôn symudol wrth olygfannau penodol, efallai bydd y cerddwr yn clywed lleisiau sy’n adalw amser a lle arall.
Mae’r mapiau am ddim ac maent ar gael o Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau ac Amgueddfa Abertawe.
To listen to the recordings use the player below or click here
Walking Between Craters by Simon Whitehead posted by Locws International
Image credits: South Wales Evening Post & National Archive and Records, USA
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