Attributes
Within the faint light,
and whirl of the machine
With sticks, and thread, and jam, and butter
Cudyll Coch makes his nest.
Stitching, gnawing
Screaching and singing
Cudyll Coch makes his nest.
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Cudyll Coch is an invitation to audiences to join artist Rhys Slade-Jones as they excavate, blur and create memory.
This 4-day performance will unfurl through spaces at Chapter - weaving and cobbling together extracts of family memory (both real, and more-than-real) to create a nest for both artist and audience.
The performance begins at a sewing machine on 23 July, and will culminate in a picnic on the evening of 26 July.
Please book your place for the picnic on Saturday 26 July 6-9pm.
Cudyll Coch is a gathering of people, a celebration of food and song.
A rumination on what it means to love. An acknowledgement of being handed the world by those who held us as children.
Bring food.
Bring music.
Bring the ancestors.
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About the artist
Awarded The Mike Pearson Performance Bursary 2025, Rhys Slade-Jones is the current Artist in Residence at Chapter from May – October 2025. Rhys is an interdisciplinary artist hailing from Treherbert, living and working in South Wales.
Walking the line between the convivial and the confrontational, Rhys creates political work that straddles the worlds of cabaret, performance, and craft. At its core, Rhys’s work explores community, history, and power, consistently questioning the global systems we are all entangled in. They use performance to investigate the relationship between their own body, the landscape, and the materials found within it, making objects and costumes that allow for the inhabitation of different characters in front of an audience. Their practice seeks to hold space for silliness, fun, and absurdity—an often difficult but intentional act. Their work is a meditation on queer ecologies, the limitless exuberance of queer raves, and the inherently political nature of joy, all of which are complicated by a simultaneous awareness of environmental catastrophe and collective lament.
Times & Tickets
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Saturday 26 July 2025
