MARGATE NOW announces artists, partners and projects for Sunken Ecologies
Sadie Hennessy, Sunken Ecologies, 2021.
MARGATE
.-MARGATE NOW announces the artists, partners and projects for the 2021 Sunken Ecologies festival programme curated by Anna Colin, with permanent commissions by Nicolas Deshayes, Lindsey Mendick and Olu Ogunnaike, and commissions for the festival duration by headline artists Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Chodzko, Kim Conway, Sonia Overall, Christina Peake, Shamica Ruddock, Holly Slingsby, Francesca Ter-Berg and Sara Trillo. Sunken Ecologies takes on the human-made natural environment, centering on the Sunken Garden, a public park in the Westbrook area of Margate, designed and landscaped in the 1930s.
What is it?
Unfolding Shrines is an exhibition produced by Shape Arts, in collaboration with Hot Knife Digital Media, where four artists Jason Wilsher-Mills, Sophie Helf, Rebekah Ubuntu, and Uma Breakdown present art in augmented reality.
Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation, based in London, which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists
They say The imagination of the marginalised has always tended toward the ‘radical , steered by the palpable need to create something new where the old is unfit for purpose. Where outdated systems have failed, might these radical redesigns proffer alternative futures?