Now’s The Time
Art Year Zero

10–19 June 2022
Exeter UK

University of Exeter
MA Curation

Now’s The Time is a multi-site project, incorporating a series of artists’ installations and community participation events, located in art venues and empty shop spaces around Exeter city centre. Initiated by students on the MA Curation course at University of Exeter, the aim is to provide a platform for socially engaged projects that address the new cultural landscape we find ourselves in, post-pandemic.

Starting from ‘Art Year Zero’, each of the seven curatorial projects in Now’s The Time engages with a different aspect of this contemporary moment in the wake of Covid-19, and how our social assumptions about the way we live and our hopes for the future have changed.

The aim of Now’s The Time is to be a positive and mutually supportive platform, working in participation with artists, specific communities and young people to try to envisage a different future, beyond the ‘new normal’.

Now’s The Time
Art Year Zero

10–19 June 2022
Exeter UK

Now's The Time

Projects

Campus Compost

Curator

Joseph Harvey

Campus Compost

Campus Compost is an exhibition about systems of waste and recycling, arising from the curator Joseph Harvey’s own feelings of conscience around the systemic production of waste he was implicated in as a university student.

Kate Merry

Curator

Emily Cartwright

Artist

Simon Bayliss, Kate Merry

Attitudes in Clay

Challenging conservative perceptions of clay in contemporary art and society, curator Emily Cartwright presents work by artists Simon Bayliss and Kate Merry.

All Different All Equal

Curator

Samuel Farlow

Artist

Salamech

All Different, All Equal

Artworks by Salamech, a street artist from Montpellier, France, are curated by Samuel Farlow in an exhibition that represents the change in attitudes towards street art.

The Edge of the Real

Curator

Anni Cheng

Artist

Diana Lynn Vandermeulen, Eva Papamargariti, Sabrina Ratté, Jeremy Couillard, Chris Dorland, Anna Sophie de Vries

The Edge of the Real

Curator Anni Cheng presents an installation of moving image works by six artists, each asking questions about how we orientate ourselves in virtual worlds.

Reconstructing Duccio

Curator

Imogen Haisman

Artist

Lesley Kerman

Reconstructing Duccio (NFT Version)

Ahead of a new exhibition in Exeter Cathedral in September, the NFT version of Lesley Kerman’s Reconstructing Duccio offers a virtual portal into this large-scale project curated by Imi Haisman.

Speech Bubbles

Curator & Artist

Qianling Dong

Speech Bubbles

Qianling Dong's exhibition captures people’s breath in the form of a balloon, as well as key words about the experience of living through Covid-19, gradually filling an entire shop window on Exeter High Street.

The Art of Signing Hands

Curator

Emma Fearon

Artist

Nancy Rourke, Louise Stern, Chella Man

The Art of Signing Hands: A Bilingual Exhibition

Curator Emma Fearon’s exhibition brings together the work of Nancy Rourke, Louise Stern and Chella Man, with participation from the students at The Deaf Academy in Exmouth, to offer a diverse experience of Sign language in varying contexts: poetic, historical, artistic, and natural.

Locations

For addresses of venues, please see drop-pin descriptors below the map.

Now's The Time locations

10–19 June 2022

Opening daily: 12–5pm

1
Joseph Harvey Emily Cartwright Samuel Farlow

Positive Light Projects
185 Sidwell Street, Exeter EX4 6RD

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2
Anni Cheng

The former Crew Store
40 Bedford Street, Exeter EX1 1GJ

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3
Imogen Haisman Qianling Dong

The former Hays Travel store
7 High Steet, Exeter EX4 3LF

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4
Emma Fearon

MakeTank
3-5 Paris Street, Exeter EX4 4NW

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Thanks & Credits

Design, Nathan Gale and Trystan Thompson, Intercity; Website development, William Hibberd; Brendan Barry and George Barron, Positive Light Projects; Sarah Campbell, Arts and Culture; Olya Petrakova, MakeTank; Stuart Crewes and Robyn Lawrence, Art Work Exeter; Hannah Overton, Princesshay; Nigel Morris, (Warp It) Environment & Climate Emergency Team, University of Exeter; David Gryn and Anna Mustonen, Daata; S[edition]; Miranda Beatty; the Deaf Academy, Exmouth.