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New Geographies is an art commissioning project co-ordinated & produced by 9 organisations from the East Contemporary Visual Art Network. In 2017 members of the public were invited to nominate overlooked and forgotten places, across the 6 counties of the East of England. Then followed an open call for artists to propose a new public artwork inspired by any of the nominated locations. A diverse and exciting group of 10 artists were selected and commissioned. Over the past 3 years we have been working together to realise their ambitious projects, engaging with local artists, residents, schools & communities across the region and further afield. You can see all 270 nominated locations alongside details of each of the ten artists projects at www.newgeographies.uk.
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Episodes

Della

Della by ECVAN

Aug 12, 202239 min

Megan

Megan by ECVAN

Aug 12, 202227 min

Dusty

Dusty by ECVAN

Aug 12, 202233 min

Emily

Emily by ECVAN

Aug 12, 202221 min

Episode 2 - Studio Morison

MOTHER… 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 i...

Jun 09, 202028 min

Epsiode 9 - Laura Wilson

The 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...

May 18, 202033 min

Ali Graham Poems

Getting 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/

May 14, 202017 min

Episode 8 - Krijn De Koning

Working 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 explo...

May 14, 202023 min

Episode 7 - Cooking Sections

Moveable 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.

May 12, 202029 min

Episode 6 - Stuart Whipps

Necessary 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 materia...

May 10, 202027 min

Episode 4 - Ian Giles

Working 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.

May 01, 202038 min

Episode 3 - Maria Anastassiou

Maria 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. I...

May 01, 202032 min

Episode 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. ...

May 01, 202029 min

In conversation: David Blandy and Dr. Merline Evans Chaired by Jamie Sutcliffe

David 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...

Apr 20, 20201 hr 21 min

susan 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/

Apr 15, 202049 min

Moveable Estates by Cooking Sections

The 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 weake...

Apr 02, 202028 min
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