Visions as Our Exile

About

The new works are products of Open Source Collaborations, a virtual arts project launched in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic by Foreign Body Productions and the Albany. The programme connects emerging artists with mentors in order to help them realise new ideas and work across different media. In spite of the challenges presented by the pandemic, this new community of artists has met weekly via regular video calls to collaborate and develop their work. The second round of the programme, which ran across November and December, saw new work produced in the mediums of radio play, short film, performance poetry, dramatic monologue and music. 

The exhibition will showcase the results of this collaboration, with five original short films spanning subjects including migration, mental health, activism, the meaning of home and a psychedelic sea shanty. Providing a vital creative outlet for young people, who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, each film is shaped by this challenging moment in history whilst also providing a much-needed creative escape. 

The projects:

It May Never Happen ~ Jessica Bailey, Matty Mancey-Jones and Jacqueline Lipman

The Secret Anti-Capitalistic Diary of Korinne K Peterpot ~ Heloise Thual, Louis Grace and Will Stevens

Lowlands ~ Tommy Hearne and Charles Stooke

Stones In Hand ~ Mo’Min Swaitat, Luke Kulukundis and Amy Douglas-Morris

There ~ Ben Woodward and Rory Edmonds