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06 March 2019 Bahrain Culture Authority Organizes a Series of Art Events, in Cooperation with the British Cultural Council
Bahrain Culture Authority Organizes a Series of Art Events, in Cooperation with the British Cultural Council

 

Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities (BACA), in cooperation with the British Cultural Council, is planning a series of public events animated by the artist Shona Illingworth during the period from 12-23 March 2019.  Scottish-Danish artist Shona Illingworth who is undertaking an artist residency with Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities developing her latest body of work Topologies of Air, commissioned by The Wapping Project, which will be exhibited alongside her previous major installation Lesions in the Landscape at the Bahrain National Museum from March 2020. The project is part of the British Council UK-Gulf Exhibition Programme.

The first event will kick off on 12 March 2019, 6:00 pm with a lecture on “ Exploring Individual & Cultural Amnesia” by artist Shona Illingworth, who  will discuss her exploration of individual and cultural amnesia and how it shapes both our sense of place and how we imagine the future through the development of her major artworks Lesions in the Landscape and the Amnesia Museum. She will outline the process of developing these works and how they have been informed through her collaborations with leading scientific experts in human memory, cultural geographers, archaeologists and historians.

The second public discussion “Sky Forum” event will be on 22 March 2019, 3:30pm  at Qala’at al Bahrain Site Museum Bahrain, and it will be a day of presentations and discussions bringing together scientists, archaeologists, historians and artists to consider the sky above our heads, and our past, present and future relationship to it.
Shona Illingworth’s series of workshops for children “Imagining Sky” will explore their ideas of sky through drawing, poetry, filmmaking and discussion. Working together they will share their own ideas about the sky in the present and how they imagine it might change in future. Artist Shona art work has been exhibited worldwide and she has been awarded greatest distinction prizes internationally.  
Shona Illingworth is a Danish/Scottish artist who works across a range of mediums, including sound, film, video, photography and drawing. She creates immersive video and multi-channel sound installations, exploring memory and situations of social tension and trauma.

Look up at the Sky public programmes are part of Shona Illingworth’s Topologies of Air commissioned by The Wapping Project, London. Shona Illingworth’s residency is supported by Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities. Topologies of Air will be exhibited at Bahrain National Museum in 2020 before touring to The Power Plant, Toronto, in 2021. The exhibition at Bahrain National Museum and the accompanying public programmes are generously supported by the British Council, DCMS and GREAT through the UK-Gulf Culture and sport programme. The aim is  to improve soft and technical skills for talented individuals that would like to work in film, museums, festivals, music, live events, fashion, visual arts, performing arts, literature and design.