Nocturnal Creatures

Pleased to be taking part in Nocturnal Creatures, an evening event hosted by Whitechapel Gallery on 21 July.

Free to attend and accessible to all, highlights of the programme include:

  • An immersive audio-visual environment created by Tom Lock especially for a new building in Broadgate
  • Hourly performances of Alexis Teplin’s mesmerising performance Arch (The Politics of Fragmentation) at the Whitechapel Gallery
  • Artist-led tours of artworks installed across the surrounding area for the 8th edition of Sculpture in the City
  • The premiere of audio compositions created in response to East End sites, Sculpture in the City x Musicity

I’ll be leading a walking tour of the City of London, provisionally titled ‘Infrastructure & Superstructure‘.

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Nocturnal Creatures Press Release

Strong & Unstable II

  • New work from the Capricious Cartography series
  • Sculpture in the City launches on 30 June
  • Watch a London Live video – with a brief appearance from me

I hope you’ll be able to make it to see my latest work, A Worldwide Web of Somewheres, in Leadenhall Market until May 2019.

Photo © Nick Turpin
Marshall Islands Stick Chart. Couldn’t find an image of a fishing net-map. Perhaps I imagined it.

For some time I’ve been trying to find ways of making maps that are more mutable, shifting and unstable than traditional cartography (whose roots are often in authoritarian boundary-marking)

This work is partly inspired by Polynesian fishing nets, which I’ve been led to believe were also maps of wind and sea currents. In their lines and nodes, these nets reveal an unseen natural infrastructure that conditions the course of journeys, that allowed their creators to navigate vast oceanic distances.

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