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Person: Ben Rivers

The Isle of Thorns | GALERiA e BREGDETiT, Vlorë

The Isle of Thorns is the fourth of six presentations of Future Ecologies being presented in the Western Balkans along with public events, curated by six curators from the region.

‘Speculating on themes explored by five UK artists in dialogue with five artists from Albania and Kosovo, The Isle of Thorns works towards contextualising FUTURE ECOLOGIES as a manifesto for a semi-fictional, symbolic transformation of the Island of Sazan, while also playing with the possibility of using fiction as a design tool.’ – Elian Stefa, curator

With works by Anna Ehrenstein with Saliou Ba, Donkafele, Nyamwathi Gichau, Lydia Likibi and Awa Seck, Louis Henderson, Niku Alex Muçaj, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Driton Selmani, Abi Shehu, Bedwyr Williams, Driant Zeneli.

Toxic Lands | Bunar Bridge, Mostar

Toxic Lands is the third of six presentations of Future Ecologies being presented in the Western Balkans along with public events, curated by six curators from the region.

Toxic Lands takes as a source of exploration the toxic narratives and destructive practices of the landscape system of the Neretva River and the city of Mostar.‘ – Armina Pilav, curator

Curated by Armina Pilav and produced in collaboration with Damir Ugljen, Un-war Space Lab collective, Association for Culture and Art Crvena from Sarajevo and Abraš Radio from Mostar.

With works by Andreja Dugandžić, Louis Henderson, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Dijana Zadro.

Conflicts | Eugster, Belgrade

Conflicts is the first of six exhibitions being presented in the Western Balkans along with screenings and public events, curated by six curators from the region.

‘Through conversations, visual artworks, sounds, stories and atmospheres, the exhibition traces the silhouette of a possible future.’ – Natalija Paunić, curator

With works by Louis Henderson, Šejla Kamerić, Uriel Orlow, Elizabeth Price, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Saša Tkačenko, Emir Šehanović, Bedwyr Williams.


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Future in Debris | Fondacija Petrović Njegoš, Podgorica

Future In Debris is the second of six exhibitions being presented in the Western Balkans along with screenings and public events, curated by six curators from the region.

‘The need to rethink the community and to take united action to find the ecologies of the future are the burning topics that the FUTURE IN DEBRIS deals with.’ – Natalija Vujošević, curator

Curated by Natalija Vujošević in partnership with The Film Center of Montenegro. Realised in cooperation with the ‘Petrović Njegoš’ Foundation and the Institute for Contemporary Art (NVU).

With works by Lenka Đorojević & Matej Stupica, Adrijana Gvozdenović, Louis Henderson, Irena Lagator Pejović, Ivan Marković, Uriel Orlow, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Ivan Salatić, Jelena Tomašević.

Future Ecologies | Sifang Art Museum, Jiangsu

WE ARE HERE is a series of five artists’ film programmes of compilations and installations curated by Tendai John Mutambu for the British Council and LUX, an international arts agency that supports and promotes artists’ moving image practices. Each programme is curated around a theme: national identity, marginality, intimacy, the future, and the archive. WE ARE HERE interrogates how outstanding emerging and established British or UK-based contemporary artists are influenced by these themes and how they explore them through biography, documentary, poetry and fiction.

The works by Charlotte Prodger, Louis Henderson, Ben Rivers and Uriel Orlow, composing the programme “Future Ecologies”, explore topics including traditional medicine in post-colonial contexts, the e-recycling of electrical appliances in Ghana to highlight, among other things, that minerals underpin technology, LGBTQI+ narratives, and future environments through a fictional monologue of a scientist living by herself in an artificial biosphere.


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