Event:Signals

Signals explores how radical movements of the past exist in international solidarity with movements today.

Working with Llantarnam Grange, and through considering the collection, conversations and community of Big Pit, with an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and ecological lens, Sadia Pineda Hameed has formed connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike, and resource extraction and labour movements worldwide today.

Long Distance Calls, 2025 - Pewter sculpture and installation 

Long Distance Calls is a series of sculptural string telephones in the style of commemorative silverware, with each pair joining the shared resistance of mining strikes in Wales and in the Global South. Inspired by Big Pit’s bell system - used by miners to communicate underground in code by touching two metal wires together.

Moving Sound, 2025  - a 16mm and archival 8mm film (8 min) and installation screened from 3pm-4pm daily 

Moving Sound is a speculative work set across 1980s and near-future Wales, shot on super 16mm. In the film, sounds of present day anti-colonial and anti-capitalist solidarities and strategies for mining strikes are transmitted from Soundcamp streamboxes to the past via an underground, time travelling broadcast. 

Perspective(s)

Supported by the Welsh Government through the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan, Perspective(s) is a pioneering initiative that brings together seven culturally diverse artists to explore the deep and often unspoken connections between Wales and global histories of empire, migration, and resistance. 

The Perspective(s) exhibition is hosted across all seven Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales sites, with each artist shedding light on hidden histories embedded within the national collection.