Upcoming events.
FITVG ELYSIUM SWANSEA
Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 October 2026
As part of tactileBOSCH's 25th anniversary programme, Fist Inside the Velvet Glove, we're heading to Elysium in Swansea for a weekend of live performance, performance history, artist talks and shared action.
Across two days, the programme brings together artists working with the body, memory, endurance, photography, archives and the histories held within particular places.
Saturday begins with Heidi Denholm's two-hour performance Portrait of an artist in limbo, inviting audiences to sit with the discomfort, boredom and absurdity of waiting. Tudor Rhys Etchells & Jack Moyse then turn their attention to photography, bureaucracy and the complicated relationship between a live performance and its documentation, before performances by Vicki Davis and Samm Shackleton, whose work Last Known Position returns to questions of bodily memory, dependence, persistence and survival.
Sunday opens with artist and researcher Heike Roms and When Performance Art Came to Swansea, a performance lecture tracing the city's largely overlooked relationship with performance art during the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on fragments, memories, histories and rumours, the work asks what Swansea's early performance scene can tell us about the development of contemporary art beyond Britain's metropolitan centres.
Following lunch, the weekend closes with Glasbren: Performance Open Jam a shared live action bringing artists and audiences together in an open, collective space for performance and experimentation
FITVG WANDERERS' LIBRARY - MORGAN ARCADE
FITVG WANDERERS' LIBRARY - MORGAN ARCADE
Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 October 2026
As part of tactileBOSCH's 25th anniversary programme, Fist Inside the Velvet Glove, we're taking over the upper floors of The Morgan Arcade for three days of live performance, installation, cinema, sound, radio, walking and archival encounters.
Once home to Cardiff's first public library, these upper floors now sit largely hidden above one of the city's most familiar shopping arcades. For three days, Wanderers' Library opens up this unusual and atmospheric space, bringing together artists whose practices move across music, performance, sound, installation and time-based work.
The space itself becomes part of the experience - a place to explore, pause, listen and discover. Across the three days, audiences will encounter live works, performative walks, sound and radio, alongside continuous installations and the tB25 Archive, bringing fragments of tactileBOSCH's 25-year history into this newly activated space.
FITVG Opening:
FITVG Opening: Friday 7th August 7pm
Opening Event at Ffotogallery
Friday 7th August
7.00pm – 9.30pm
Over the past 25 years, tactileBOSCH has championed experimental performance, installation, sound and interdisciplinary practice, working with hundreds of artists and presenting projects across Wales and Beyond. This exhibition celebrates that history by bringing our archive into the gallery as a living resource, inviting artists to respond to it in new and unexpected ways.
We'd love for you to join us at Ffotogallery and spend some time exploring the archive. We invite you to rummage through 25 years of photographs, posters, publications, ephemera and documentation while experiencing a programme of new live works that reflect on our past and reimagine it for the present.
Featuring live performance, installation, sound and film by:
Holly Slingsby
Jan Bennett
Mia Roberts
Paul Regan
The exhibition runs from 7–16 August. For gallery opening times, please click on more info to visit the Ffotogallery website.
FfotogalleryFanny StreetCardiff, Wales, CF24 4EHUnited Kingdom (map)
FITVG Exhibition at Ffotogallery
FITVG Exhibition at Ffotogallery: 7–16 August
For 25 years, tactileBOSCH have made ephemeral, time-based practice in abandoned spaces, now long gone, capturing moments of a Cardiff that no longer exists. The work was never built to last. Performances for one night. Rooms transformed and then abandoned. Half-remembered conversations and ideas never realised.
What remains are fragments. Photographs. Audio recordings. Video files. Projection slides. Notebooks. Posters. Hard drives and Polaroids.
For our birthday year, they are opening Pandora's box. Join us at Ffotogallery, where the archive will be live across formats. Watch. Listen. Flick through. Sit with a projection. Put on headphones. The material spans the life of the collective and the hidden history of Cardiff itself — the disused factories, the abandoned nightclubs, the marginal buildings we reanimated.
Grassroots practice is fragile. It leaves few traces. It operates outside the institutions that preserve history. Right now, art schools are contracting. Funding demands measurable outcomes. Independent spaces are disappearing.
The ghosts of past practice are not simply memories. They are raw material. To summon them, to handle the fragments, to listen to the lost recordings, to sit with what was almost forgotten is to ask not only what happened, but what might still happen. What futures can we build by reanimating what came before?
Add your own memories. Leave a note. Record a story, a memory, an idea, a dream for the future. Help us imagine what artist-led grassroots practice in this city could look like over the next twenty-five years.
This is not a retrospective. This is a reactivation. A site of speculation, improvisation and encounter.
Join us at Ffotogallery and experience the archive firsthand. Handle the materials. Listen back. flick through, sit with what remains and add to the stories.
Gallery Opening times: Wednesday - Saturday: 12pm - 5pm
Ffotogallery, Fanny StreetCardiff, Wales, CF24 4EH United Kingdom (map)
GLASBREN
The Fist Inside the Velvet Glove, tactileBOSCH’s celebration of our anniversary year. GLASBREN is a session designed to bring new and known artists into tactileBOSCH, giving us chance to come together and put the world to rights.
For this special edition of GLASBREN, we’ll be opening the doors of the now disused Culverhouse Cross CarpetRight store, offering a unique and rare opportunity to think and play performatively in a raw site that has been left relatively untouched since it closed in 2024.
Through the Floor
tactileBOSCH & SHIFT Present Through The Floor 19th-21st July
Through The Floor. A Three day festival of experimental performance and sound art taking place across three floors @carneddcaerdydd Food trucks, coffee & more onsite.
Friday: 7pm-10pm
Rhodri Davies / Luigi Marino (Duo) @rhodrijd
Rhodri Davies (Solo) - Luigi Marino (Solo)
Pamdox Trio @pamrosecott @xavyboyyyyy @lukehrobinson
Saturday 1pm-11pm & Sunday 1pm-10pm
Featuring-
Sgor/score @sgor_score
Solar Return @julienottavi1 @jennnn.apo33
Lucia H. Chung @encreuxmusic
Charlie Lockwood @charlielockwoodart
Rachel helena walsh @rachelhelena
Kelan @kelan_uk
Beauty Parlour @sgarabtapes
Carnivorous Plants Trio @liquidlibrarysucks @danjohnsondrums
Noah Radley @radley_noah
Martin Chitty & Jon Ruddick @martinlloydchitty @tstarchive
FONTS @iamrobsmithmusic @martinlloydchitty
JAG Orchestra @jakeagriffiths
May Swoon @mayswoon
Truly Kaput @trulykaput
Fuck Radio @kieran.doe
NPOT @nuanced_presence
Gin Drinker
Pato Canton @patocantondj
Matthew Grigg & Robin Foster @robinfost3r
Congregate 2024
tactileBOSCH presents Congregate, a night of elevating immersive music, installation and performance in collaboration with cultvr’s Soundspace sessions.
Expect evocative electronic sound mixed with live, 360° visuals, installations, wearable art, sonic beats and organic pulses. Let us warm your blood cells at our Spring celebration. Haunting voices from some of the best in experimental electronic music! Join us Good Friday to hear what they have to say.
Agora exhibition close
tactileBOSCH and Cadw present, a group exhibition reflecting on Welsh heritage and collective ritual through a contemporary lens.
Agora brings together artists from across Wales whose work responds to themes of heritage, ritual and the land. An innovative approach to making and showcasing new artwork that celebrates tradition and powerfully expresses the potential that places hold.
This exhibition takes the Agora [The gathering place] as the inspiration for new methods of radical cultural exchange.
With a focus on Welsh heritage, folklore, language and natural abundance this show is rooted in sustainability, diversity and the desire to nourish our personal and cultural connections to Wales. This exhibition showcases new work by a range of contemporary artists as well as documenting recent collaborative work made on location at Cadw heritage sites.
Mae Agora yn dod ag artistiaid o bob rhan o Gymru ynghyd y mae eu gwaith yn ymateb i themâu treftadaeth, defod a’r tir. Dull arloesol o wneud ac arddangos gwaith celf newydd sy’n dathlu traddodiad ac yn mynegi’n rymus botensial lleoedd.
Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn cymryd yr Agora [Y man ymgynnull] fel ysbrydoliaeth ar gyfer dulliau newydd o gyfnewid diwylliannol radical.
Gyda ffocws ar dreftadaeth Gymreig, llên gwerin, iaith a digonedd naturiol mae’r sioe hon wedi’i gwreiddio mewn cynaliadwyedd, amrywiaeth a’r awydd i feithrin ein cysylltiadau personol a diwylliannol â Chymru. Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn arddangos gwaith newydd gan amrywiaeth o artistiaid cyfoes yn ogystal â dogfennu gwaith cydweithredol diweddar a wnaed ar leoliad yn safleoedd treftadaeth Cadw.
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Artists: Abi Hubbard, Beth Greenhalgh, Catrin Davies, Catrin Menai, Clare Parry Jones, Dan Johnson, Dominique Fester, Fern Thomas, Ffion Reynolds, George Myers, Georgia Ruth, Gwenno, Jen Abell, John Abell, Katie Turnbull, Lewis Prosser, Manon Awst, Molly Harcombe, Pam Rose Cott, Peter Evans, Sarah Boulton, Sean Vicary, Teddy Hunter, Tess Wood.
Images @pete_takes_pictures
Congregate
TactileBOSCH and Cadw present 'Congregate', An afternoon of talks, performance, and sound as part of the Agora programme. Join us Penarth cemetery chapel on Sunday the 20th of August.
John Abell print making workshop
John Abell print making workshop
16th August 10 am till 4pm
Join us at Turner House for a workshop in lino printing.
Working from drawings, observation, imagination, history, texts. Creating lino cut and print around the current Agora install.
DM to book a spot or email beth@tactilebosch.co.uk
Iris Murray clay workshop
Build your own tiny home. A workshop and conversation on what it means to have a sense of home, belonging and welsh identity with a sustainable future.
Agora Exhibition preview
3rd August – 3rd September
tactileBOSCH and Cadw present, a group exhibition reflecting on Welsh heritage and collective ritual through a contemporary lens.