BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.14.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Remember the Future X-WR-CALDESC:Orleans House Gallery X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:20201116T120000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:20201116T120000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Remember the Future DESCRIPTION:How can we transform our relationship with nature?  \n\nTh is group exhibition and artist-led research project unearths and interro gates our connection with our habitats and ecosystems\, both global and local.   \n\nArtists including Ackroyd &\; Harvey\, Nestor Pestana\ , Bryony Ella\, Eloise Moody and Vicky Long\, and more to be announced\, will present work that invites us to question established notions of ou r place as part of the natural world.\n\nAlongside the exhibition\, the galleries and grounds at Orleans House Gallery will become an ecocentric artistic research laboratory. Through engaging with all-comers\, commun ity groups\, scientists and our ecosystem\, artists will lead investigat ions into how we renew our connection with the natural world. \n\nFrom c ollaborating with a protected Cedar of Lebanon tree in the grounds of Or leans House Gallery to embracing First Nation cosmologies and seeking wh ere wild sits within all of us\, you can read more about the Artist Rese arch Projects and the work they will be doing here: Artist Research Proj ects    \n\nWe invite all to step into our vibrant ecosystem and help tell this story\, that even in a most urban of environments we can affe ct change in the ecological crises of our time. Join the conversation a bout the issues highlighted in the exhibition on twitter using #Remember TheFuture\n\nRemember the Future is the opening chapter of our story of Cultural Reforesting\, the beginning of our new collaborative multi-year programme investigating ways we might renew our relationship with natur e. \nArtist Bios \nAckroyd &\; Harvey  \n\nMulti award winning ar tist duo Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey are internationally acclaimed fo r creating multi-disciplinary works that intersect art\, activism\, arch itecture\, biology\, ecology and history. Referencing memory and time\ , nature and culture\, urban political ecologies\, climate emergency and degradation of the living planet\, their time-based practice reveals an intrinsic bias towards process and event.  Processes of germination\,  growth and decay (organic and inorganic)\, erosion and deposition\, fe ature in artworks that often evolve through extended research in respons e to people and place\, interfacing their profound interest in local eco logies and planetary concerns with socio-political paradigms.  In 2019\ , the artists co-founded Culture Declares Emergency in response to the c limate and ecological emergency.  \n\nNestor Pestana\n\nNestor Pestana is a Venezuelan/Portuguese educator\, artist and digital designer. His work is research based\, focusing on the necessity for critical engageme nt with contemporary and emerging issues related to technology\, ecology and politics. He uses worldbuilding through design fiction and speculat ion\, combined with storytelling methodologies. Narratives are expressed through moving image\, sculpture and installation\, to immerse visitors actively and critically with the narrative and issue presented. Nestor has a background in Design and received an MA in Design Interactions fro m the RCA in 2015.\n\nExhibition highlights include: The Museum of Lost and Found Potential – Supported by the Wellcome Trust\, London 2019\; Authentic Fictions: Speculative Futures for 2.5D Printing – DLab Tokyo Gallery\, Tokyo 2019\; Night School on Anarres: Imaginings of an Anarch ist Utopia – Somerset House\, London 2016\; and Economics of Uncertain ty\, Future of Labor – Venice Biennale 2014. In 2020 his work Plumial Space received a finalist award by YouFab Global Creative Awards.\n\nBry ony Ella\n\nBryony Ella is a British-Trinidadian artist\, curator and pr oducer working at intersection of art and science\, with a particular fo cus on nature connection. Her practice spans street art to oil paintings \, textile design to drawing\, playing with pattern\, scale and composi tion\, and moving between symbolism\, abstraction and expressionism in t he search for immersive encounters with nature. She also brings a strong community engagement and participatory focus to her public realm based  work. Alongside her artist practice\, Bryony has 15 years experience  of curating and producing social history and science exhibitions\, most recently leading the inaugural public engagement strategy for exhibitio ns at the UK’s largest lab\, The Francis Crick Institute. She has a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting from Bath Spa University and an MA in Museolo gy with a Curatorial Fellowship at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.   \n\nVicky Long and Eloise Moody  \n\nVicky Long works across a ran ge of media. She has a keen interest in people and place\, and the dynam ic of that relationship over time.\n\nShe has worked as a maker\, design er and performer in theatre and collaborated internationally with theatr e/dance directors Wan Tik Lun\, Douglas Rintoul and Vikram Iyengar. Ongo ing collaboration with Vikram Iyengar\, on a performance research projec t focussed on the ecology of the Sundarbans\, continues to lead to a var iety of outcomes in multiple locations. Vicky has also created sound and site-specific work for Cape Farewell\, the Eden Project\, Stories of Ch ange\, TfL and the boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth\, Southbank Centre \, Art Night and York St. Mary’s.\n\nEloise Moody is a multi-disciplin ary artist/maker.  Her work investigates subjects of memory\, absence a nd belonging through socially engaged practice. Working with specific gr oups of people\; from security guards and nuns to those who are the last in their family line\, she helps to uncover and document moments of bea uty\, translating them into finely made artworks that often go back into the public realm.\n\nShe has worked with Museum of London\, Kettles Yar d\, Metal\, London Wetland Centre\, the Art Lending Library and BMAG amo ngst others.\n\nVicky and Eloise first collaborated together on Colourfi eld\, a Shrinking Space commission and part of the Wonder Project at Kew Wakehurst\, 2018.\n  URL;VALUE=URI:https://orleanshousegallery.org/events/remember-the-future / UID:urn:uuid:f8508461-5c16-4de4-9e74-ac444164157e STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260924T170000Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211114 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR