Unfathomable Creatures and Bridging Realities (MARCUS COATES)

Guest artist MARCUS COATES joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves. Published in 1929, this short poem is a retelling of an overhead conversation about "un-Welsh" creatures emerging from the sea. BUY US A COFFEE! SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Marcus and Jillian's conversation encompasses longing, empathy, humour, grasping, death, wolves, psychosis, parenting, migration, birds, badgers, unknowability, parenting, morality, predators, blindfolding, eagles, immigration and a willingness to be uplifted. Also: feeling inadequate, religious conformity, instinctive behaviours, war experiences, emptying yourself, the mundane, sounding pathetic, false destinations, exploitation of care, limitations of language, modes of relating, suspension of disbelief, de-centring of humanity, failure of the imagination, the ripple effect of artworks, plaster on a broken leg, stark realities of survival, travelling in the mind, proliferation of domestic cats, and the human need to buy in, to belong, to believe. MARCUS COATES @marcus_coates_ 'Conference of the Birds' katemacgarry.com/artworks/9111-marcus-coates-conference-for-the-birds-2019/ 'The Trip' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAuRv0xv8M 'The Directors' artangel.org.uk/project/the-directors/ whatsgoingon.org.uk 'Sunbird for Palestine' bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/palestine-sunbird/ 'Dawn Chorous' www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1uihdcZmY 'The Last of its Kind' workplace.art/exhibitions/the-last-of-its-kind 'Nature Calendar' katemacgarry.com/artworks/10446-marcus-coates-nature-calendar-2022/ 'Finfolk' COLLABORATORS Helen Macdonald 'H is for Hawk' Jeff Samples ARTISTS & PERFORMERS Brian Catling Fiona Curran 'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please' Helen Chadwick Marylin Munroe Richard Ayodeji Ikhide Richard Burton Thomas Bewick AUTHORS & BOOKS Anna Burns 'The Milkman' Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman' Robert Graves 'Welsh Incident' GALLERIES & ART ORGS Artangel Freize Art Fair Kate MacGarry Royal Academy The Serpentine FILM 'The Boy and the Heron' Hayao Miyazake for Studio Ghibli RESEARCH ARTICLE theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/12/why-birdsong-matters-more-than-you-think       .