tactileBOSCH

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It's our birthday!
tactileBOSCH are excited to announce tB25: FIST IN THE VELVET GLOVE
Abandoned factories, former casinos, condemned townhouses: over the last 25 years, tactileBOSCH has transfomed all these spaces and more into sites for bold, experimental art. Since 2001 we’ve championed artists working at the edges of form and discipline, where performance, installation, sound, sculpture and social encounter collide
tB25: FIST IN THE VELVET GLOVE is a year-long programme of reconstitution. Throughout 2026 we’ll be inviting artists and audiences to reactivate moments from the tactileBOSCH archive: a chance to revisit past experiments and spark new ones. Expect open archive sessions, workshops, new commissions and raucous celebrations
To help realise these, there will be an artist call-out, giving practitioners space, time and energy to experiment, take risks and make something new. After 25 years, tactileBOSCH remains a space for bold ideas, collective imagination and unexpected encounters. Details on how you can apply to follow soon, keep your eyes peeled
Everything is at stake for artist-led culture in Wales. At a time when art schools face contraction, when policy and funding are driven by instrumental notions of ‘value’ and when cutthroat development threatens the survival of independent cultural spaces, the preservation of tactileBOSCH’s history becomes a political act. Our archive insists on the importance of play, failure, collective action and experimentation in the face of neoliberalism's narrowing of the field. We look forward to sharing it with you

Supported by Arts Council Wales
Images from the archive 📸 Kim Fielding  1990s New York, One of the founders of tactileBOSCH
 
Mae tactileBOSCH yn falch o gyhoeddi tB25: FIST IN THE VELVET GLOVE.
Ffatrïoedd gwag, hen gasinos, tai tref wedi’u condemnio: dros y 25 mlynedd diwethaf mae tactileBOSCH wedi trawsnewid y mannau hyn – a llawer mwy – yn safleoedd ar gyfer celf feiddgar ac arbrofol. Ers 2001 rydym wedi hyrwyddo artistiaid sy’n gweithio ar ymylon ffurf a disgyblaeth, lle mae perfformiad, gosodiad, sain, cerflunwaith a chyfarfyddiadau cymdeithasol yn cydblethu ac yn gwrthdaro.
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