Visions in the Nunnery 2022
Visions Programme 1 invites you into the abandoned English garden, across an untended lawn and into decrepit sheds, in which lurk films exploring nostalgia, ecology, our relationship with animals and surreal imagination. Led by invited artist Patrick Goddard, his satirical art focuses on urban change, gentrification and ecology with works that are often politically charged and narrative-based. His characteristic immersive installations are an intrinsic part of his practice with films shown within their own encompassing viewing enviroments.
For Visions Goddard has created a unique installation, houseing 20 international artists’ films together with a new work of his own, a continuation of his celebrated Animal Antics.
Begin a curious journey of nightmarish sound and discovery, taking you through forests of darkness (Jan Adamove, Slovakia), performative poetry on passports and privilege (Katia Sophia Ditzler, Germany / Ukraine), a crying pigeon’s story (Theo Ellison, UK) and much more. Selected from an international open call, Visions brings together artworks from across the globe, giving you a unique chance to discover different voices, ideas and perspectives through film.
Programme 1 Exhibiting Artists: Jan Adamove; Tom Bull; Brit Bunkley; Alessia Cecchet; Katia Sophia Ditzler; Theo Ellison; Ben Fox; Richard Haley; Wendy Kirkup; Edwin Miles; El Morgan; Rebecca Moss; Jeremy Newman; Toby Parker Rees; Claudio Pestana; George Stamenov; Patrick Tarrant; Hong Yane Wang; Dillon Ward; Jack Williams.
Visions Programme 1 invites you into the abandoned English garden, across an untended lawn and into decrepit sheds, in which lurk films exploring nostalgia, ecology, our relationship with animals and surreal imagination. Led by invited artist Patrick Goddard, his satirical art focuses on urban change, gentrification and ecology with works that are often politically charged and narrative-based. His characteristic immersive installations are an intrinsic part of his practice with films shown within their own encompassing viewing enviroments.
For Visions Goddard has created a unique installation, houseing 20 international artists’ films together with a new work of his own, a continuation of his celebrated Animal Antics.
Begin a curious journey of nightmarish sound and discovery, taking you through forests of darkness (Jan Adamove, Slovakia), performative poetry on passports and privilege (Katia Sophia Ditzler, Germany / Ukraine), a crying pigeon’s story (Theo Ellison, UK) and much more. Selected from an international open call, Visions brings together artworks from across the globe, giving you a unique chance to discover different voices, ideas and perspectives through film.
Programme 1 Exhibiting Artists: Jan Adamove; Tom Bull; Brit Bunkley; Alessia Cecchet; Katia Sophia Ditzler; Theo Ellison; Ben Fox; Richard Haley; Wendy Kirkup; Edwin Miles; El Morgan; Rebecca Moss; Jeremy Newman; Toby Parker Rees; Claudio Pestana; George Stamenov; Patrick Tarrant; Hong Yane Wang; Dillon Ward; Jack Williams.
Visions Programme 2 led by Webb-Ellis
Imagine a world which positions children and young people as seers and prophets, to guide us through our age of accelerating technological development, environmental crisis, and sociopolitical complexity. In a disused chalk quarry in the summer of 2021, Webb-Ellis collaborated with young people from Gravesend to co-create an imaginary world and alternative environment for learning. Using methods of philosophical enquiry, radical listening, dance, drawing and singing, the artists and young people worked together to weave a fractured narrative which became the basis for the film This place is a message.
This place is a message shows on the Nunnery’s immersive cinema screen set-up, flanked by banners made by the young people in the film. Breathing a wave of optimistic youth, mystical memory, imagined worlds and elemental power across the gallery, 22 other works invite you into their equally mesmerising alternative realities.
Imagine a world which positions children and young people as seers and prophets, to guide us through our age of accelerating technological development, environmental crisis, and sociopolitical complexity. In a disused chalk quarry in the summer of 2021, Webb-Ellis collaborated with young people from Gravesend to co-create an imaginary world and alternative environment for learning. Using methods of philosophical enquiry, radical listening, dance, drawing and singing, the artists and young people worked together to weave a fractured narrative which became the basis for the film This place is a message.
This place is a message shows on the Nunnery’s immersive cinema screen set-up, flanked by banners made by the young people in the film. Breathing a wave of optimistic youth, mystical memory, imagined worlds and elemental power across the gallery, 22 other works invite you into their equally mesmerising alternative realities.
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