Hetain Patel’s Programme 1 kick starts Visions 2020 with a poignant showcase of works exploring themes pertinent to Patel’s work, including identity, migration, gender, heroes and movement.
Bolton-born and London-based Patel is known for his beautifully shot films and resonating performances, which look to connect marginalised identities with the mainstream in an effort to destabilise notions of authenticity and promote personal freedom. Patel will premiere a new animation for the programme, projecting outlines of himself moving across the gallery’s walls through colours, revealing different skin tones through his own body’s lines. Made over the summer, the work follows animations the artist shared on Instagram during the covid lockdown.
26 other artists’ work join will join Patel’s, selected from the worldwide open call, with works made in Canada, Iran, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the US. The programme is a pertinent exploration of how artists all over the world are grappling with their cultural identities and homelands, using popular iconography and movement to express this in different and provocative ways.
Presenting Said Adrus, Richard Ashrowan, Sarah Bliss, Izaak Brandt, Lee Campbell, Drew Dodge, Diamond Frances, Rosie Gibbens, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Rowland Hill, Florrie James, Laura Kelly, Bryan P Konefsky, Kamila Kuc, Gal Leshem, Amanda Lorens, Kym McDaniel, Holly McLean, Maybelle Peters, Aron Rossman-Kiss, Carlos Saavedra, Niyaz Saghari, Christopher Samuel, Simon Robertshaw, Maxima Smith, Sam Williams.
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artists Hetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
An online event programme will run throughout the exhibition and all exhibition works will also be available online. Visions 2020 was curated by Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill and Kamila Kuc, together with the lead artists.
Bolton-born and London-based Patel is known for his beautifully shot films and resonating performances, which look to connect marginalised identities with the mainstream in an effort to destabilise notions of authenticity and promote personal freedom. Patel will premiere a new animation for the programme, projecting outlines of himself moving across the gallery’s walls through colours, revealing different skin tones through his own body’s lines. Made over the summer, the work follows animations the artist shared on Instagram during the covid lockdown.
26 other artists’ work join will join Patel’s, selected from the worldwide open call, with works made in Canada, Iran, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the US. The programme is a pertinent exploration of how artists all over the world are grappling with their cultural identities and homelands, using popular iconography and movement to express this in different and provocative ways.
Presenting Said Adrus, Richard Ashrowan, Sarah Bliss, Izaak Brandt, Lee Campbell, Drew Dodge, Diamond Frances, Rosie Gibbens, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Rowland Hill, Florrie James, Laura Kelly, Bryan P Konefsky, Kamila Kuc, Gal Leshem, Amanda Lorens, Kym McDaniel, Holly McLean, Maybelle Peters, Aron Rossman-Kiss, Carlos Saavedra, Niyaz Saghari, Christopher Samuel, Simon Robertshaw, Maxima Smith, Sam Williams.
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artists Hetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
An online event programme will run throughout the exhibition and all exhibition works will also be available online. Visions 2020 was curated by Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill and Kamila Kuc, together with the lead artists.
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Nye Thompson’s Programme 2 explores our world through the many new digital systems that have fundamentally changed how we see and exist. Data is harvested, other worlds are imagined and the cataclysmic effect of technology is explored.
Technical innovator Nye Thompson’s work is celebrated for its often weird and unsettling effect, as she pushes the boundaries of digital art by creating data-generating artist software systems to explore the often hidden impact of new technologies. She will premiere the new work /artefact for Visions, originally commissioned by The Lowry’s WEEK 53 Festival, which virtually builds a colossal dividing wall on the un-walked territories of Mars.
24 other artists’ work join Thompson’s from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, the US and Wales, contemplating data gathering, other worlds, space, earth and CCTV. Join the digital Disco Islam (Bijan Moosavi), an alternative future for mankind (Stefan Hurtig) and works produced from months spent online during lockdown.
Presenting Judith Alder, John Barlow, Laurel Beckman, Max Colson, Susan Eyre, Dave Farnham, Aurèle Ferrier, Federica Foglia, Tessa Garland, Libby Heaney, Stefan Hurtig, Jo Lawrence, Robert Luzar and Martina Schmücker, Shanna Maurizi, Bijan Moosavi, Finn Rabbitt Dove, George Finlay Ramsay, Elke Reinhuber, Hiroya Sakurai, Dagmar Schürrer, Mattia Spagnuolo, Charlie Tweed.
View List of Works here
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artists Hetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
Technical innovator Nye Thompson’s work is celebrated for its often weird and unsettling effect, as she pushes the boundaries of digital art by creating data-generating artist software systems to explore the often hidden impact of new technologies. She will premiere the new work /artefact for Visions, originally commissioned by The Lowry’s WEEK 53 Festival, which virtually builds a colossal dividing wall on the un-walked territories of Mars.
24 other artists’ work join Thompson’s from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, the US and Wales, contemplating data gathering, other worlds, space, earth and CCTV. Join the digital Disco Islam (Bijan Moosavi), an alternative future for mankind (Stefan Hurtig) and works produced from months spent online during lockdown.
Presenting Judith Alder, John Barlow, Laurel Beckman, Max Colson, Susan Eyre, Dave Farnham, Aurèle Ferrier, Federica Foglia, Tessa Garland, Libby Heaney, Stefan Hurtig, Jo Lawrence, Robert Luzar and Martina Schmücker, Shanna Maurizi, Bijan Moosavi, Finn Rabbitt Dove, George Finlay Ramsay, Elke Reinhuber, Hiroya Sakurai, Dagmar Schürrer, Mattia Spagnuolo, Charlie Tweed.
View List of Works here
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artists Hetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
Nye Thompson’s Programme 2 explores our world through the many new digital systems that have fundamentally changed how we see and exist. Data is harvested, other worlds are imagined and the cataclysmic effect of technology is explored.
Technical innovator Nye Thompson’s work is celebrated for its often weird and unsettling effect, as she pushes the boundaries of digital art by creating data-generating artist software systems to explore the often hidden impact of new technologies. She will premiere the new work /artefact for Visions, originally commissioned by The Lowry’s WEEK 53 Festival, which virtually builds a colossal dividing wall on the un-walked territories of Mars.
24 other artists’ work join Thompson’s from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, the US and Wales, contemplating data gathering, other worlds, space, earth and CCTV. Join the digital Disco Islam (Bijan Moosavi), an alternative future for mankind (Stefan Hurtig) and works produced from months spent online during lockdown.
Presenting Judith Alder, John Barlow, Laurel Beckman, Max Colson, Susan Eyre, Dave Farnham, Aurèle Ferrier, Federica Foglia, Tessa Garland, Libby Heaney, Stefan Hurtig, Jo Lawrence, Robert Luzar and Martina Schmücker, Shanna Maurizi, Bijan Moosavi, Finn Rabbitt Dove, George Finlay Ramsay, Elke Reinhuber, Hiroya Sakurai, Dagmar Schürrer, Mattia Spagnuolo, Charlie Tweed.
View List of Works here
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artists Hetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
An online event programme will run throughout the exhibition and all exhibition works will also be available online. Visions 2020 was curated by Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill and Kamila Kuc, together with the lead artists.
Martian Territories Land Deeds, 2020
Technical innovator Nye Thompson’s work is celebrated for its often weird and unsettling effect, as she pushes the boundaries of digital art by creating data-generating artist software systems to explore the often hidden impact of new technologies. She will premiere the new work /artefact for Visions, originally commissioned by The Lowry’s WEEK 53 Festival, which virtually builds a colossal dividing wall on the un-walked territories of Mars.
24 other artists’ work join Thompson’s from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Scotland, Singapore, Switzerland, the US and Wales, contemplating data gathering, other worlds, space, earth and CCTV. Join the digital Disco Islam (Bijan Moosavi), an alternative future for mankind (Stefan Hurtig) and works produced from months spent online during lockdown.
Presenting Judith Alder, John Barlow, Laurel Beckman, Max Colson, Susan Eyre, Dave Farnham, Aurèle Ferrier, Federica Foglia, Tessa Garland, Libby Heaney, Stefan Hurtig, Jo Lawrence, Robert Luzar and Martina Schmücker, Shanna Maurizi, Bijan Moosavi, Finn Rabbitt Dove, George Finlay Ramsay, Elke Reinhuber, Hiroya Sakurai, Dagmar Schürrer, Mattia Spagnuolo, Charlie Tweed.
View List of Works here
Visions is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial exhibition of moving image, digital and performance art, and this year presents work from 15 countries selected from a worldwide open call. Lead artists Hetain Patel, Nye Thompson and Benedict Drew will all show new films, the themes of which guide the curation of the show’s three programmes.
An online event programme will run throughout the exhibition and all exhibition works will also be available online. Visions 2020 was curated by Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill and Kamila Kuc, together with the lead artists.
Martian Territories Land Deeds, 2020
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Due to COVID. Visions in the Nunnery P3 with lead artist Benedict Drew was cancelled.
Benedict Drew’s Programme 3 is an ethereal exploration into fantasy and fiction, with artists drawing on music, 16mm film, poetry, ritual and nature to make sense of our current moment in time.
Filmmaker, composer and sculptor Benedict Drew’s immersive, energetic works of sound and vision are surreal and probing, often commenting on current political and environmental issues. For Visions he will show a new single screen work in which he tunes into vibrations and waves of energy from celestial objects, thinking about how to improvise with others through telepathy in the shadow of catastrophe. As with many of Drew’s works, the visual will transform itself through music, giving itself over to the transformative effect of sound.
24 other artists will join Drew, hailing from Austria, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US. Featuring two 16mm projections, we are invited on a journey through multi-layered and sensory interpretations of our world.
Presenting Tommy Becker, Arianne Churchman, Caryn Cline, Chloe Cooper, Anita Delaney, Karel Doing, Richard Forbes-Hamilton, William Glass, Zewiditu Jewel and Lucy Cordes Engelman, Jess Johnson, Luke McCreadie, Stuart Moore, Yuri Muraoka, Reed O’Beirne, Caryn Cline and Linda Fenstermaker, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Chiemi Shimada, Holly Slingsby, Vicky Smith, Lara Smithson, Amy Steel, Emily Whitebread, Ruby Wroe, Daniela Zahlner.
An online event programme will run throughout the exhibition and all exhibition works will also be available online. Visions 2020 was curated by Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill and Kamila Kuc, together with the lead artists.
Benedict Drew’s Programme 3 is an ethereal exploration into fantasy and fiction, with artists drawing on music, 16mm film, poetry, ritual and nature to make sense of our current moment in time.
Filmmaker, composer and sculptor Benedict Drew’s immersive, energetic works of sound and vision are surreal and probing, often commenting on current political and environmental issues. For Visions he will show a new single screen work in which he tunes into vibrations and waves of energy from celestial objects, thinking about how to improvise with others through telepathy in the shadow of catastrophe. As with many of Drew’s works, the visual will transform itself through music, giving itself over to the transformative effect of sound.
24 other artists will join Drew, hailing from Austria, Greece, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US. Featuring two 16mm projections, we are invited on a journey through multi-layered and sensory interpretations of our world.
Presenting Tommy Becker, Arianne Churchman, Caryn Cline, Chloe Cooper, Anita Delaney, Karel Doing, Richard Forbes-Hamilton, William Glass, Zewiditu Jewel and Lucy Cordes Engelman, Jess Johnson, Luke McCreadie, Stuart Moore, Yuri Muraoka, Reed O’Beirne, Caryn Cline and Linda Fenstermaker, Lou Lou Sainsbury, Chiemi Shimada, Holly Slingsby, Vicky Smith, Lara Smithson, Amy Steel, Emily Whitebread, Ruby Wroe, Daniela Zahlner.
An online event programme will run throughout the exhibition and all exhibition works will also be available online. Visions 2020 was curated by Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill and Kamila Kuc, together with the lead artists.