Tuesday, November 11, 2008


From country to city - Turning the Season at The Wapping Project

Four writers have been commissioned to produce short stories for a new exhibition inspired by the phenomenon of the British Season. The writers will each produce a 3,000 word short story which will be placed around Turning the Season at The Wapping Project as a sound installation.

The four commissioned writers are:

* Romesh Gunesekera
* Deborah Levy (pic left)
* Toby Litt
* Erica Wagner

The stores are inspired by one of the main pieces in the new exhibition, a photo story, Untold, shot by fashion photographer thomas zanon-larcher and directed by Wapping Project Director and Curator Jules Wright. Writers may respond to a single image, a scene or the whole sequence of images. The photographic narrative charts the demise of the relationship between couple Alex and Alice (Elliot Cowan, Lost in Austen star and Hannah Shaw, supermodel) set against the backdrop of the Season’s events. The short stories will be recorded by the authors and played on headphones throughout the building.

For the exhibition, Jules Wright has invited artists from many disciplines to respond to the Season in all its complexities, playing with ideas of town and country, seasonal shifts, commerce, trade and all its meanings and metaphors. The Wapping Project space and surrounding grounds will be completely transformed, with dance, writing, photography, theatre, design and art consuming every inch of the space – from a roof-top lily pond to an installation of white ceramic deer skulls.

The short stories and photo story will be accompanied in the exhibition by:

* 100 bird houses designed by creative talent from ECAL design school will fill a tree
* a lily pond created by Diane Howse which will adorn the roof
* a new sculpture by Eilís O'Connell, WINGBLADE, will travel from Goodwood Sculpture Park for its first public outing in the exhibition
* a dance duet choreographed by Luca Silvestrini
* Samuel Spenser’s installation of porcelain deer skulls
* a musical score by Ilona Sekacz

Turning the Season is at The Wapping Project from 20 November 2008 to 28 February 2009.

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