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The Wapping Project is a platform for the continuous development of ideas, thoughts and people. We exist to enable artists to work with unrestrained ambition.

It is our investment in, and enthusiasm for, the artists that we commission that forms the backbone of the artistic programme. The Wapping Project questions and aims to redefine accepted boundaries through commissioning, nurturing and championing artistic talent.

25/01/2025

About to open A Beauty Odyssey exhibition featuring new works by .michalowska.

Delighted to collaborate with

23/10/2024

In exploring last years Resonance - Finland, we return to a publication exploring Resonance for the first time with The Wapping Project.

Edited by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher

Contributors:

Gareth Evans
Karen Stuke
Alia Trabucco Zeran
Sophie Hughes
Laura Cannell

Designed by Atelier Dyakova

Link in bio

16/10/2024

Experience a special preview of The Wapping Project's latest commission, Andrea Luka Zimmerman's 'Wayfaring Stranger' a film that asks what it takes to find a liveable kife on one's own terms without conflict with others and the environment.

6pm, Djavaf Mowafaghian Cinema, Friday 1 November.

In collaboration with SFU Vancity Office of Community engagement

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Special thanks to
band .myles

12/07/2024

We are delighted to announce that our latest commission, in partnership with Sharjah Art Foundation, The Water that Asked for a Fish by Bahraini artist Mariam Alnoaimi has been awarded funding from Art Jameel and the British Council through Anhar: Culture and Climate Platform and is now in production towards its premiere exhibition in February 2025.

The Water that Asked for a Fish, a participatory programme and audio-visual installation, looks at bodies of water as living entities rather than objects within an environment.

Bodies of water – seas, lakes, springs, aquifers – can be seen as a medium of politics and poetics through which stories are told and narratives are unravelled into multiple layers of geography, ecology and collective memory. They are in constant change; their movement – the shift from presence to absence, or vice versa – can be the result of natural phenomena such as tides, storms and seasons, or human interventions: island building, land reclamation, creation of reservoirs, climate change. Mariam has invited a group of participants – fishermen, biologists, ecologists, writers and community members to respond to their local bodies of water within Bahrain daily over a period of time. The project weaves this factual information with stories and rituals embedded within the local culture in the Gulf region.

Image credit: Artist Mariam Alnoaimi and cinematographer Ling Lee during the production of The Water that Asked for a Fish. Image by Marta Michalowska, 2024.

20/12/2023

A sensorial observation of the transformative quest for a truthful existence.
Fiona Armour International Film Festival Rotterdam - IFFR on Wayfaring Stranger by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Looking forward to the world premiere of this new commission in January at IFF Rotterdam in the Harbour Strand.

With text written and performed by acclaimed writer and poet Eileen Myles, and sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson.

The performers:

Eileen Myles
Eirini Ampatzi Ippikoglou
Michiko Oki
Moon Nanook Guo-Barker
Mwiinga Twyman
Therese Henningsen
Xiaolu Guo
With a special performance from Tizzy-Rose, Callum Hickey, Ash & Ella

Written by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Gareth Evans
Directed and filmed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Produced by Marta Michalowska and Thomas Zanon-Larcher
Co-Produced by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Edited by Taina Galis and Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Sound design by Chris Watson
With music by Balamuc
Title song ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ performed by Fern Maddie Music
Commissioned and funded by The Wapping Project.

20/12/2023

We are delighted to announce that our latest commission – Wayfaring Stranger by Andrea Luka Zimmerman – will premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam - IFFR in January 2024.

Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial edge lands and manicured enclaves, they find themselves in forests, farms, mountains and the shore. Along the way, they undergo a transformation, through the seasons and changing geography, both physically and emotionally, from youth to elderhood, and from a single, alienated being into an accepted element of the wider world. Each ‘day ’ is a ‘station’ that signifies a turning point in a character’s emotional development : from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence.

Filmed in landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless, often destructive, human interaction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment.

With text written and performed by acclaimed writer and poet Eileen Myles, and sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson.

08/09/2023

Resonance: Finland 2023

Elina Brotherus, Hertta Kiiski, Kawthar Al Harthi, Khadija Al Maamari, Lada Suomenrinne, Maija Blåfield, Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa, Rosaliina Paavilainen, Ruqaiya Mazar, Safa Baluchi

Delighted to share our summer programme, which brought together 10 artists at Saari Residence in June 2023 to develop new works.

Thanks to the generous support from Kone Foundation. Developed in partnership with Stal Gallery, Oman.

03/02/2023

The Eternal Night by Coco Fusco

We are delighted to announce a new co-commission – The Eternal Night (La noche eterna) by Coco Fusco – in partnership with the Sharjah Art Foundation.

The Eternal Night, a feature-length artist film, tells the story of three Cuban young men that were condemned for their beliefs and their creations. It is about the power of the imagination to transcend circumstance.

The film is based on the true story of Cuban writer and former political prisoner Néstor Díaz de Villegas. In 1974, Díaz de Villegas was sentenced to six years in prison for writing a poem. He was eighteen years old and had already been branded as a political nonconformist. At the time, those Cubans who were considered too intellectual, too enamoured of American popular culture, too effeminate or too attached to their religious faith were marginalised and subject to incarceration and reeducation.

The film begins when the poet arrives at the prison and meets a young Evangelical man from the countryside and an older actor who was accused of trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. The actor ushers them into the social world of the prison. To enliven the prisoners’ evenings, he convinces the warden that screening films would be a more effective means of teaching inmates about the benefits of socialism and creates a cinema inside the prison.

Coco Fusco combines a dramatised version of Díaz de Villegas’ prison experience with archival footage and print culture from the 1970s, as well as interviews with Díaz de Villegas and his friend, the actor and former political prisoner José Manuel Castiñeyra.

The Eternal Night will premiere at the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present from 7 February to 11 June 2023.

27/06/2022

We are delighted to share the news that 'Topologies of Air' by Shona Illingworth, commissioned and produced by The Wapping Project, will be exhibited at Les Abattoirs Musée-Frac Occitanie in Toulouse from 1 July to 20 November 2022.

The exhibition, a journey through the layers of the sky, is structured around the work 'Topologies of Air', an immersive three-screen and surround sound installation examining the radical geopolitical, technological and environmental transformation of the sky since the advancement of aviation. The exhibition presents a restless, often invisible, world and disrupts the idea of the sky as a space where peace and silence reign.

The exhibition will also feature further works within the larger body of work 'Topologies of Air' and is a touring exhibition curated by The Power Plant, Toronto.

'Topologies of Air' was commissioned and funded by The Wapping Project, with support from Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, Sharjah Art Foundation, British Council, Arts Council England and University of Kent.

Image: 'Topologies of Air' by Shona Illingworth, 2021, video still

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