Opening Preview: Our Silver City, 2094
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About the Event
We are excited to be launching a new exhibition, Our Silver City, 2094.
To mark this special exhibition, we are opening the gallery for an evening, first-chance-to-view moment.
Friday 19 November 2021
6-8pm, booking required
Please note: Alongside our galleries being open, Shop Contemporary and Cafe Contemporary will be open too.
About the Exhibition
Our Silver City, 2094 travels to the end of this century, featuring works from the last 400 million years. It is an exhibition-as-sci-fi-novel, or vice-versa.
Crossing the gallery threshold, we step into a possible future world. This world has been reshaped by decades of crisis and collapse: resource wars and evacuations, plastic-eating bacteria and flooding. Once known as Nottingham, the Silver City is set against a backdrop of fire seasons and widening waterways. Here, communities have embraced different forms of colour production, weather forecasting and spirituality.
This exhibition is imagined as a journey unfolding across four galleries, orientated to the cardinal points. It traces a route from change to understanding, from inner knowledge to wisdom. Along the way, we encounter a selection of artefacts, remnants and artworks connecting the long 21st century with what went before. All exhibitions invite us to travel in time, but this one insists on it.
Based on a methodology by Prem Krishnamurthy, Our Silver City has been developed by the artists Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven and Grace Ndiritu, and the novelist Liz Jensen, in close dialogue with Krishnamurthy and the Nottingham Contemporary team. It is accompanied by a novella by Jensen, and extends across the city via a programme developed with young people.
Our Silver City asks: How might art envision, prototype and practice new ways of being in the uncertain future? Who were “we” before we became “we”? Where are we going? And how might we get there?
Visit Safely
Safety precautions will be in place throughout the building, including asking all visitors to wear a face covering (unless exempt) and social distancing where possible. These measures are subject to change, depending on local conditions surrouding COVID-19.
You can find more information on our COVID-19 safety policies at https://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/visit/visit-us-safely
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Andy Batson, Head of Audience and Partnerships: AndyBatson@nottinghamcontemporary.org
Event:
Opening Preview: Our Silver City, 2094Dates:
19 Nov 2021, 6pm–8pmArtists and Contributors:
Roger Ackling, Anni Albers, Anna Barham, Chiara Camoni, Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, Céline Condorelli, Armando D. Cosmos, Isa Genzken, Femke Herregraven, Charlotte Johannesson, Hannah Catherine Jones, On Kawara, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, Agnieszka Kurant, Nicola L, Vivian Lynn, Angus McBean, Anthony McCall, Eline McGeorge, Sandra Mujinga, Grace Ndiritu, John Newling, B.J. Nilsen, Nottingham City Museums, Asad Raza, Delphine Reist, Ben Rivers, Connie Samaras, Cauleen Smith, Michael E. Smith, Jenna Sutela, Elisabeth Wild, Zara Zandieh and Andrea Zittel.
Artistic and Curatorial Team:
Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven, Liz Jensen, Prem Krishnamurthy and Grace Ndiritu.
Curatorial framework by Prem Krishnamurthy, who has co-curated the exhibition with Kiera Blakey, Sam Thorne and Nicole Yip, assisted by Olivia Aherne and Hannah Wallis. Young people's programme curated by Wingshan Smith.
Supporters:
This exhibition is generously supported by The Graham Foundation, PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund, The Mondriaan Fund & Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants. With in-kind support from CHAUVET Lighting, OMNI, & specialists in art logistics, Queen's.
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