BOLD TENDENCIES 12th SUMMER PROGRAMME
ART - ORCHESTRAL MUSIC - OPERA - ARCHITECTURE
Bold Tendencies is excited to present ten new commissions from international artists in the rooftop spaces of the Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park for our most ambitious summer project to date. Working across art, orchestral music, opera and architecture Bold Tendencies will open to the public 18 May - 22 September 2018.
The focus for this year’s art commissions is Ecology and the commissioned artists are: Johann Arens, Sian Lyn Hutchings, Irina Kirchuk, Lawrence Lek, Arjuna Neuman, João Vasco Paiva, Sterling Ruby, Emilija Škarnulytė, Jenna Sutela, and Richard Wentworth.
Over the last few decades the subject of Ecology has become an increasingly urgent issue. Ecology is not a solitary investigation into the natural world or the way that organisms and environments react inside it. It is a lens for analysing all that takes place on Earth and beyond, be it cultural or natural; language or weather: objects, subjects, processes, networks.
In a world where Peruvian ice cores are stuffed with lead, corporations have more rights than humans, and gut bacteria helps develop infant brains - a world of gene synthesisers, hybrid corn and frozen embryos - the question of Ecology is more important than ever.
Finding points of connection between bacteria, artificial intelligence and recycling; between rural and urban, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial, Bold Tendencies presents the work of artists that bravely traverse this new Ecological terrain.
Each new commission approaches the question of Ecology in the contemporary world in its own terms. Whether the revolutionary sounds of Haitian music, the vernacular architecture of rammed earth, or the bespoke packaging of an international courier service, each artist considers the interplay of this ecological maze. The new commissions shift from organic elements to algorithmic patterns, sonic wormholes to vibrant skylines, representing a diverse field of aesthetic and conceptual approach.
