Moveable Estates by Cooking Sections launching 14 March 2020
MOVEABLE ESTATES is a new artwork in the form of a 30 minute audio narrative, which guides listeners on a short walk in Winterton. The piece comments on climate change, unexpected floods and harsh weather conditions, erosion and accretion patterns. It compiles a material genealogy of human and non-human adaptation to the changing terrain, according to an unstable land that is increasingly affected by human action. The project takes as a point of departure references of buildings that have been uprooted and moved from their original location due to economic incentives, local tradition, cultural shift or unstable ground, in Norfolk, and elsewhere. Moveable Estates invites listeners to think about the future role of cities in envisioning fluctuating horizons. Image © Cooking Sections
Free return transport (limited places) is available from East GalleryNUA to Winterton, bookable via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moveable-estates-launch-event-with-free-return-coach-travel-fromnua-tickets-96975816277
Free return transport (limited places) is available from East GalleryNUA to Winterton, bookable via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moveable-estates-launch-event-with-free-return-coach-travel-fromnua-tickets-96975816277
Cooking Sections Moveable Estates
The public are invited to join the launch of a new ‘walking’ artwork by Cooking Sections. Commissioned by East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, as one part of the region-wide programme New Geographies, which aims to bring contemporary art to unexpected places in the East of England, the sound piece explores the issues of living with the eroding coastal landscape of Norfolk.
What makes real estate ‘real’? Can houses move and retreat from the eroding shores? Artistic partnership Cooking Sections present a new audio-narrative artwork set at Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk, exploring coastal erosion and flexible forms of human inhabitation; where the sea ends and the land begins. Launch Event: Saturday 14 March, 12.30 — 2.30pm Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk
The artwork takes the form of a 30-minute audio narrative, which guides listeners on a short walk — starting on the pad of a recently relocated fisherman’s hut overlooking the beach at Winterton. The narrator explores stories of previous shorelines that are still present in the landscape: from harbour remains to coastal structures that are all found today inland, as well as the ghostly presence of lighthouses and prosperous towns that lie beneath the water. The piece comments on climate change, unexpected floods and harsh weather conditions, erosion and accretion patterns. It compiles a material genealogy of human and non-human adaptation to the changing terrain, according to an unstable land that is increasingly affected by human action.
The project takes as a point of departure references of buildings that have been uprooted and moved from their original location due to economic incentives, local tradition, cultural shift or unstable ground, in Norfolk, and elsewhere. Moveable Estates invites listeners to think about the future role of cities in envisioning fluctuating horizons.
Says Cooking Sections: ‘The North Sea has deposited, transported and eroded the sand that defines the zone of the East Anglian coast for millennia. More recently, these movements have been magnified in a series of events from the 1953 North Sea Flood to the 2018 ‘Beast from the East’. Rising sea-levels, recurrence of severe storms, and the construction industry increasingly dredging the offshore seabed for sands, keep shifting tidal flows and increase the chance of cliff landslides due to the crashing of waves on weakened ground. City walls and military bunkers lie parallel to flood defences, ‘wars’ are fought against ‘eviction’ by the new coastal enemy. They sit between homes whose “priceless” coastal views have dissolved their monetary value and insurability.’
The new artwork will be launched on Saturday 14 March at 12.30pm and there is an open invitation for people to take part in the first walk — and bring any personal stories, photographs or newspaper clippings to share with the artists.
All participants need is an iPhone, Android phone, or tablet and a set of headphones to download the sound piece, and join in with the walk.
About Cooking Sections
As one of the partner institutions of ECVAN and the New Geographies project, East GalleryNUA, have commissioned artist duo Daniel Fernandez Pascual and Alon Schwabe, who collectively form spatial practitioners ‘Cooking Sections’. Cooking Sections is a London-based partnership, created to explore the systems that organise the world through food. Using installation, performance, and mapping, their research-based practice operates within the overlap among visual arts, architecture, and geopolitics. They have been part of the US Pavilion, 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale; residents of The Politics of Food program at Delfina Foundation; and have shown their work at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum, dOCUMENTA(13), the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and the Centre for Contemporary Architecture in Montreal.
About New Geographies
Cooking Sections have been commissioned by East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, as part of the three-year project called ‘New Geographies’. New Geographies aims to create a new map of East Anglia, bringing great art for everyone to some of the lost or forgotten sites in the region: Throughout Summer of 2017, New Geographies asked the public to nominate overlooked or unexpected places in the region that they find meaningful and interesting to them. By asking ‘what is a forgotten place that you think is important to highlight?’ people shared their stories, building an active discussion, which re-imagined our idea of ‘place’. With over 270 public nominations of overlooked places, the project created a new map of the East of England made by those who live in the area. In response to these nominations, ECVAN partners have commissioned 10 artists – from the UK and internationally – to highlight some of those places with new site-specific work. This combination of local knowledge and world-class art seeks to create a new vision of the East of England as a place to encounter excellent art in unexpected places.
Each artwork will be different, but all the projects will be united by one thing: their inspiration taken from the people and places where they’re located. New Geographies will create a new democratised map for our region whilst experiencing high-quality international art in unexpected locations. For everyone. Follow #Newgeog for social media updates on the project. https://newgeographies. uk/artist/cooking-sections/ @newgeog @newgeog @newgeog About East GalleryNUA East Gallery is an exciting, city centre gallery space showcasing the best modern and contemporary art and design in Norwich. Exhibitions are developed and funded by Norwich University of the Arts (NUA), or are the result of collaborations with national and international partners. NUA is one of the UK’s leading specialist arts, architecture, design, media universities. Students join a thriving creative community at a university renowned for outstanding teaching quality, industry-standard facilities and high student satisfaction. https://www.nua.ac.uk/university-life/east-gallery/
For further information about East GalleryNUA, please contact: Claire Allerton, Curator, [email protected] t: +44 (0)16 03 88 63 82 Paul Hill, Head of Communications, [email protected] t: +44 (0) 16 03 75 32 70 https://www.nua.ac.uk/about-nua/news/east-gallerynua-collaborates-with-east-contemporary-visual-arts-network-on-new-geographies/
Free return transport (limited places) is available from East GalleryNUA to Winterton, bookable via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moveable-estates-launch-event-with-free-return-coach-travel-fromnua-tickets-96975816277
The public are invited to join the launch of a new ‘walking’ artwork by Cooking Sections. Commissioned by East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, as one part of the region-wide programme New Geographies, which aims to bring contemporary art to unexpected places in the East of England, the sound piece explores the issues of living with the eroding coastal landscape of Norfolk.
What makes real estate ‘real’? Can houses move and retreat from the eroding shores? Artistic partnership Cooking Sections present a new audio-narrative artwork set at Winterton-on-Sea in Norfolk, exploring coastal erosion and flexible forms of human inhabitation; where the sea ends and the land begins. Launch Event: Saturday 14 March, 12.30 — 2.30pm Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk
The artwork takes the form of a 30-minute audio narrative, which guides listeners on a short walk — starting on the pad of a recently relocated fisherman’s hut overlooking the beach at Winterton. The narrator explores stories of previous shorelines that are still present in the landscape: from harbour remains to coastal structures that are all found today inland, as well as the ghostly presence of lighthouses and prosperous towns that lie beneath the water. The piece comments on climate change, unexpected floods and harsh weather conditions, erosion and accretion patterns. It compiles a material genealogy of human and non-human adaptation to the changing terrain, according to an unstable land that is increasingly affected by human action.
The project takes as a point of departure references of buildings that have been uprooted and moved from their original location due to economic incentives, local tradition, cultural shift or unstable ground, in Norfolk, and elsewhere. Moveable Estates invites listeners to think about the future role of cities in envisioning fluctuating horizons.
Says Cooking Sections: ‘The North Sea has deposited, transported and eroded the sand that defines the zone of the East Anglian coast for millennia. More recently, these movements have been magnified in a series of events from the 1953 North Sea Flood to the 2018 ‘Beast from the East’. Rising sea-levels, recurrence of severe storms, and the construction industry increasingly dredging the offshore seabed for sands, keep shifting tidal flows and increase the chance of cliff landslides due to the crashing of waves on weakened ground. City walls and military bunkers lie parallel to flood defences, ‘wars’ are fought against ‘eviction’ by the new coastal enemy. They sit between homes whose “priceless” coastal views have dissolved their monetary value and insurability.’
The new artwork will be launched on Saturday 14 March at 12.30pm and there is an open invitation for people to take part in the first walk — and bring any personal stories, photographs or newspaper clippings to share with the artists.
All participants need is an iPhone, Android phone, or tablet and a set of headphones to download the sound piece, and join in with the walk.
About Cooking Sections
As one of the partner institutions of ECVAN and the New Geographies project, East GalleryNUA, have commissioned artist duo Daniel Fernandez Pascual and Alon Schwabe, who collectively form spatial practitioners ‘Cooking Sections’. Cooking Sections is a London-based partnership, created to explore the systems that organise the world through food. Using installation, performance, and mapping, their research-based practice operates within the overlap among visual arts, architecture, and geopolitics. They have been part of the US Pavilion, 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale; residents of The Politics of Food program at Delfina Foundation; and have shown their work at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum, dOCUMENTA(13), the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and the Centre for Contemporary Architecture in Montreal.
About New Geographies
Cooking Sections have been commissioned by East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts, as part of the three-year project called ‘New Geographies’. New Geographies aims to create a new map of East Anglia, bringing great art for everyone to some of the lost or forgotten sites in the region: Throughout Summer of 2017, New Geographies asked the public to nominate overlooked or unexpected places in the region that they find meaningful and interesting to them. By asking ‘what is a forgotten place that you think is important to highlight?’ people shared their stories, building an active discussion, which re-imagined our idea of ‘place’. With over 270 public nominations of overlooked places, the project created a new map of the East of England made by those who live in the area. In response to these nominations, ECVAN partners have commissioned 10 artists – from the UK and internationally – to highlight some of those places with new site-specific work. This combination of local knowledge and world-class art seeks to create a new vision of the East of England as a place to encounter excellent art in unexpected places.
Each artwork will be different, but all the projects will be united by one thing: their inspiration taken from the people and places where they’re located. New Geographies will create a new democratised map for our region whilst experiencing high-quality international art in unexpected locations. For everyone. Follow #Newgeog for social media updates on the project. https://newgeographies. uk/artist/cooking-sections/ @newgeog @newgeog @newgeog About East GalleryNUA East Gallery is an exciting, city centre gallery space showcasing the best modern and contemporary art and design in Norwich. Exhibitions are developed and funded by Norwich University of the Arts (NUA), or are the result of collaborations with national and international partners. NUA is one of the UK’s leading specialist arts, architecture, design, media universities. Students join a thriving creative community at a university renowned for outstanding teaching quality, industry-standard facilities and high student satisfaction. https://www.nua.ac.uk/university-life/east-gallery/
For further information about East GalleryNUA, please contact: Claire Allerton, Curator, [email protected] t: +44 (0)16 03 88 63 82 Paul Hill, Head of Communications, [email protected] t: +44 (0) 16 03 75 32 70 https://www.nua.ac.uk/about-nua/news/east-gallerynua-collaborates-with-east-contemporary-visual-arts-network-on-new-geographies/
Free return transport (limited places) is available from East GalleryNUA to Winterton, bookable via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moveable-estates-launch-event-with-free-return-coach-travel-fromnua-tickets-96975816277