Norfolk & Norwich Festival is the international arts festival for the East of England. This year it will deliver Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Norfolk Open Studios and Contemporary Art Norwich, as well as Creative Partnerships throughout the year
Saturday 11 July –
Saturday 8 August
Venue Locations
Mondays & Fridays:
Kimberley Street,
Norwich NR2 2RJ
Tuesdays:
Main car park, Norfolk County Council County Hall
Norwich NR1 2DH
Wednesdays & Saturdays:
Cathedral Close
Norwich NR1 4DH
Thursdays:
Norfolk Road, Sainsbury Centre
for Visual Arts
University of
East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
Opening Times
Monday – Saturday
10.00am – 5.00pm
Cost of Entry
Free
Information
t: 01603 877750
e: can@nnfestival.org.uk
w: www.nnfestival.org.uk/contemporary-art-norwich
Tales of Space and Time Ivan and Heather Morison
Saturday 11 July – Saturday 8 August
Ivan and Heather Morison present Tales of Space and Time, a mobile library in the style of a 1970s Californian house truck, made from a converted 1955 Green Goddess (ex-army fire engine). The work will travel around the city, housing hundreds of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction classics and hosted by a specialist science fiction librarian. The public are invited in to browse the volumes and contemplate the future.
Ivan and Heather Morison both live and work in Wales. Their work has been exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including Bloomberg Space, London, and Folkestone Triennial. In 2007 they represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
With grateful thanks to Norfolk County Council, Norwich Cathedral and University of East Anglia.
Saturday 11 July –
Monday 31 August
Venue Locations
Locations across Norwich
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up-to-date information
Cost of Entry
Free
Information
t: 01603 877750
e: can@nnfestival.org.uk
w: www.nnfestival.org.uk/contemporary-art-norwich
Florilegium Norwich
Jacques Nimki
Saturday 11 July – Monday 31 August
Florilegium Norwich is a series of limited-edition drawings by Jacques Nimki, inspired by his research and cataloguing of weeds found in and around Norwich city centre.
Going about our daily lives we often fail to notice the weeds that determinedly push through cracks in the concrete or wrap themselves around street signs and lampposts. Nimki uncovers the whereabouts and activities of undervalued and overlooked characters such as the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Hen’s Inheritance, Sticky Willie and many other plants that can be found thriving in our urban environment.
The works, in the form of small postcard-size drawings, can be seen and found in the most unusual and unexpected locations throughout the city.
Jacques Nimki lives and works in London and Norfolk. Recent solo shows include Fabrica, Brighton; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and The Approach, London. Group exhibitions include Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, and the 8th Sharjah International Biennial. His work can be found in the public collection of Arts Council England and in a variety of private collections.
Samson and Hercules, Tombland
City Boats sign, Elm Hilll
St Clements Church, Colegate
Outdoor vegetable stall,
Magdalen Street
News Stand, Anglia Square
Friday 24, Saturday 25
& Sunday 26 July
Venue Location
London Street, Norwich (section between Jarrold and Castle Street)
Opening Times
9.00pm each evening (performance lasts approximately 2 hours)
Cost of Entry
Free
Information
t: 01603 877750
e: can@nnfestival.org.uk
w: www.nnfestival.org.uk/contemporary-art-norwich
Mariano Pensotti, Moto, from La Marea
La Marea by Mariano Pensotti
Friday 24, Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 July
A man has just had a motorbike accident... an insomniac tries to get to sleep...
a couple have their first kiss... a man stands on a balcony, escaping the party that rages behind him...
When strangers walk past you on the street, do you ever imagine what they're thinking? Or where they come from? Or what they’re doing there at the very moment you glimpse them? Mariano Pensotti from Buenos Aires does, and he has put these intimate snapshots into words and staged them in our city, at night.
In real time, moving from the pavement to illuminated windows, from balconies to café terraces, La Marea presents the secret stories and private emotions that bring Norwich to life before your eyes.
It features nine fictional scenes, repeated over the course of the evening in shop windows and on street corners. The audience is placed in a subtly voyeuristic position, experiencing the actors’ thoughts only through projected subtitles.
This is the first showing of La Marea in the UK, following its première in Buenos Aires in 2005. Argentinean-born Pensotti is a writer and theatre director working mainly in film, video and performance. He is director of dramatic art at the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Artes in Buenos Aires.
Author and Director: Mariano Pensotti
Set design and technical direction: Mariana Tirantte
Lighting design and technical set up: Matías Sendón
Assistant Director : Maria Santolo
Translation and adaptation: Jenny Vila and Jonathan Holloway
Actors
Hazel Anderson, Holly Bodmer, Aina de Cos, Hester Draycott, Hans Dreyer, Micci Gorrod, Mark Gracey,
Esther Jenkins, Kay Wooler Jones, Alex Kaye, Tim Kelly, Joshua Lincoln, John Lynch, Kumar Muniandy, Chris Plaw, Jonathan Young
Supported by
With grateful thanks to Jarrold, Habitat, Nigel Alexandre
and Pilch Sports & Outdoor
13 – A Norwich Beacon: Office for Subversive Architecture
It is with great sadness that we have to announce that this project has been cancelled, due to circumstances beyond our control. We apologise for any inconvenience or disappointment caused.
