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ECVANDellaDella by ECVAN2022-08-1239 min
ECVANMeganMegan by ECVAN2022-08-1227 min
ECVANDustyDusty by ECVAN2022-08-1233 min
ECVANEmilyEmily by ECVAN2022-08-1220 min
ECVANDolly Sen New Histories Podcast (1)Dolly Sen New Histories Podcast (1) by ECVAN2022-06-2815 min
ECVANEpisode 2 - Studio MorisonMOTHER… is an artwork by artists Heather and Ivan Morison of Studio Morison that engages with the connections between the natural world and our mental health. The work is inspired by writer Richard Mabey’s book ‘Nature Cure’, in which he recovers from severe depression through walking, watching and writing about the Eastern region’s beautiful and unexplored landscapes.
MOTHER… references local building traditions, materials and architectural vernacular to root the structure in the landscape it is a part of. The form is an interpretation of the remarkable hayricks once found dotting this countryside. The timber used in the framing was felled f...2020-06-0927 min
ECVANEpsiode 9 - Laura WilsonThe Must Farm pile-dwelling site is an exceptionally well-preserved settlement dating to the end of the Bronze Age (c. 850BC) located on the edge of a working quarry. The site, often referred to as the UK’s Pompeii, has been excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, revealing many important discoveries about how people lived and worked. Working closely with Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Wilson explores this and other discoveries, opening up questions around labour, trade and everyday life.
The exhibition includes twelve Bronze Age vessels that have been excavated from the Must Farm site on loan from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit. It...2020-05-1833 min
ECVANAli Graham PoemsGetting Away from Distant Things: Poet Alison Graham, graduate of the Creative Writing Poetry MA at the University of East Anglia, reading a selection of commissioned poems inspired by Ian Giles' Open Ramble East walks in Norwich, Colchester, Cambridge and Great Yarmouth during the event at Outpost, Norwich.
https://newgeographies.uk/artist/ian-giles/2020-05-1416 min
ECVANEpisode 8 - Krijn De KoningWorking in partnership with UH Arts, at the University of Hertfordshire, artist Krijn de Koning is creating a site-specific installation at The Gibberd Garden in Harlow. De Koning’s practice takes different structures and environments – such as Compton Verney, Edinburgh College of Art and Folkstone Triennial – to create interventions in a space, which both highlight and intervene with our experience, perception and assumptions of these places. Based in Amsterdam, de Koning has been able to explore sites in Hertfordshire and Essex with fresh perspectives as a visitor, before selecting The Gibberd Garden as the location for his installation.
The artist’s intere...2020-05-1422 min
ECVANEpisode 7 - Cooking SectionsMoveable Estates is a project by Cooking Sections commissioned by New Geographies in 2020, developed as one of 10 site-specific commissions across teh East of England. The project was developed in partnership with East GalleryNUA.2020-05-1228 min
ECVANEpisode 6 - Stuart WhippsNecessary Amendments: Homes for the people is a new film that was made between 2018 and 2020 In three locations: The Gibberd garden in Harlow, Brooke House in Basildon, and The Cockaigne houses at The Ryde in Hatfield. All are post-war British ‘new towns’
The film is a modest attempt to represent people who live somewhere ‘new’ which of course in most cases is now far from new. How do people feel about where they live? What are their hopes for the future? This is supplemented by historic material from Frederick Gibbard’s archive alongside footage of the volunteer archivists who are custodians...2020-05-1026 min
ECVANEpisode 3 - Maria AnastassiouMaria Anastassiou presents her New Geographies commission ‘Way My It Did I’, a filmic response to the historic point of entry for immigrants coming into the UK – Tilbury in Essex.
Set against the transient landscape of the Thames Estuary and laden with traces of the ever shifting global narratives of commerce and migrations, Anastassiou spent the last year connecting with Tilbury based refugee and migrant groups, including Romanian workers, Nigerian women asylum seekers and Filipino seafarers.
Inspired by the work of the University of Essex’s Centre for Migration Studies, Anastassiou’s process-led approach questions official narratives and mediates on the everyd...2020-05-0131 min
ECVANEpisode 4 - Ian GilesWorking in film, performance and events, Ian Giles’ work facilitates social interactions and enables queer histories and presents to be seen and celebrated. He organised the Open Ramble East walks and Outhouse as part of the New Geographies commissions.2020-05-0138 min
ECVANEpisode 1 - David Blandy‘The World After’, a newly commissioned work and exhibition by artist David Blandy. Comprised of a film, installation and game, ‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines a world after the Anthropocene era, a time in which humanity’s activities had detrimental effect on earth’s climate and environment. In this future world, human influence on the planet has faded following a catastrophic man-made ecological crisis, with those who remain having to find new ways to survive and form kin.
Blandy’s project takes inspiration from the unique post-industrial setting of Canvey Wick on Canvey Island, Essex.
'The World After' w...2020-05-0128 min
ECVANIn conversation: David Blandy and Dr. Merline Evans Chaired by Jamie SutcliffeDavid Blandy is joined in conversation with local writer and researcher Dr. Merline Evans, chaired by writer Jamie Sutcliffe, to discuss his new film, exhibition and table-top roleplay game ‘The World After’.
Recorded from an event at South Essex College on 16th November 2019
‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines a world after the Anthropocene era, a time in which humanity’s activities had detrimental effect on earth’s climate and environment. In this future world, human influence on the planet has faded following a catastrophic man-made ecological crisis, with those who remain having to find new ways to survive a...2020-04-201h 20
ECVANsusan pui san lok - Seven Sisters (2019)Seven Sisters (2019)was a 7-channel audio installation created as part of susan pui san lok's solo exhibition, A COVEN A GROVE A STAND, commissioned by Firstsite, Colchester for New Geographies.
spsl-projects.net/covengrovestand/
https://newgeographies.uk/artist/susan-pui-san-lok/2020-04-1548 min
ECVANMoveable Estates by Cooking SectionsThe North Sea has deposited, transported and eroded the sand that defines the zone of the East Anglian coast for millennia. More recently, these movements have been magnified in a series of events from the 1953 North Sea Flood to the 2018 ‘Beast from the East’. Rising sea-levels, recurrence of severe storms, and the construction industry increasingly dredging the offshore seabed for sands, keep shifting tidal flows and increase the chance of cliff landslides due to the crashing of waves on weakened ground. City walls and military bunkers lie parallel to flood defences, ‘wars’ are fought against ‘eviction’ by the new coastal enemy. They...2020-04-0228 min