Exhibition
Terrestrial Act III
4 Dec 2021 – 19 Dec 2021
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- Thames-Side Studios
- Harrington Way, Warspite Road
- London
England - SE18 5NR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 161 / 177 / 180 / 472 Bus stops are located; east-bound and west-bound: Woolwich, Warspite Road (6 mins walk)
- North Greenwich (Take the Route Bus 472 towards Thamesmead Town Centre)
- Woolwich Dockyard (8 mins walk) and Charlton (12 mins walk)
Hot Desque presents the third iteration of their immersive sculpture exhibition and collaborative artist film 'Terrestrial Act'
About
Terrestrial Act III follows on from a series of evolving immersive exhibitions as part of the project Terrestrial Act. Brought to Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Hot Desque creates a future-past landscape through the theatrical presentation of six artists’ sculptures within a set. Initially presented on stage at the Theatre Royal Newcastle within an ornate yet empty theatre, now, dislodged in a new spacetime, the set has transformed and weathered. The grand auditorium has collapsed and disintegrated, replaced by a vast empty factory space in an industrial complex in Woolwich.
Also showing is a collaborative artist film of the same name, shot on the Theatre Royal stage, where the microscopic lives of organic matter perform their own stories under the spotlight.
From 3-D printed biodegradable saplings, through to mic’d up clay bubbling, the focus shifts between past and present, staged and un-staged, organic and fabricated. The film points to the role played by the human hand in altering the terrestrial terrain around us.
