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Bow Arts was established as an educational arts charity in 1995 and supports a community of over 500 artists with affordable, secure and creative workspaces. Bow Arts currently manages thirteen studio sites across London; its Education Department works with over 100 schools.

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Nunnery Gallery, Bow Road (opposite Bow Church)

28 September – 16 December 2018

Front images, clockwise from top left: Roxman Gatt, still from It’s a Passion; Tina Keane, still from Deviant Beauty, courtesy England & Co.; Byzantia Harlow in collaboration with Orlando Cubitt, installation of The worth of the water (when the well is dry); Bedwyr Williams, still from Hypercaust; fair brane, still from Centred; Melanie Manchot, still from Out of Bounds (C); all images © the artist.

Three programmes of international moving image and performance, with lead artists Tina Keane, Melanie Manchot and Bedwyr Williams

Visions in the Nunnery is back – the Nunnery Gallery’s renowned showcase of moving image and performance. Three programmes will present an international overview of some of the most exciting, recent and boundary-pushing digital art, showing over 60 international artists selected from over 1,000 submissions.

Led by revered multi-media artist Tina Keane, whose work and teaching has had a profound influence on the development of digital art, Programme 1 explores the body, feminism, obsession and the search for identity. Alongside Keane’s own Deviant Beauty (1996) and Couch (2003, neon and film), 14 other artists’ work make up the programme, presenting some of the most arresting, clever and quietly provocative works commenting on gender today.

Exhibiting artists: Andrés Barón; Jason Bernagozzi; fair brane; Becky Brewis; Alice Evans; Katharine Fry; Anna Garner; Rosie Gibbens; Tina Keane; Lana Locke; Marcus Orlandi; Linda Persson; Vanessa Scully; Maxima Smith; Rhea Storr.

Frieze First Thursday Performance Evening, Thurs 4 Oct, 6-9pm £6/4A night of cutting-edge performance in the Bow Arts courtyard to celebrate Visions and Frieze, exploring themes pertinent to Tina Keane’s work, including identity, sexuality and gender. Featuring Alexandra Davenport, Rosie Gibbens, Laura Greenway, Bea Haut; Marcus Orlandi, Liene Steinberga Cesar and Emily Whitebread.

Frieze East End Night – Tina Keane Screening, Fri 5 Oct, 6-8pm FREEA special one-off screening of Tina Keane’s seminal work Faded Wallpaper (1988, 20 mins), in partnership with England & Co Gallery. Work screened at 7pm.

Wind, Rewind: Women Behind the Lens, Wed 24 Oct, 7pmQueen Mary University of London, £6/4 Inspired by Visions lead artist Tina Keane, the Nunnery Gallery and Queen Mary University of London present an evening exploring Keane’s – and women’s – influence on the development of moving image and film art. Beginning with a screening of one of Keane’s works, the evening will be chaired by Dr. Jenny Chamarette; panellists include artist Diann Bauer and author Richard Dyer.

Programme 2 premieres a new work from lead artist Melanie Manchot, Out of Bounds (C) (2018), which continues Manchot’s ongoing exploration of the socio-economic and ecological microclimate of a Swiss mountain and its alpine community. The themes of Manchot’s research-driven practice – identity, human relationships, landscape and the environment – echo through the programme, with works that also reflect her photography-led methods of presentation, including light and dark, choreography and drawing.

Programme 1 Tina Keane 28 Sep – 28 Oct

Programme 2 Melanie Manchot 30 Oct – 25 Nov

Exhibiting artists: Lina Albrikiene; Diann Bauer; Ben Fox; Tessa Garland; William Glass; Karissa Hahn; Byzantia Harlow in collaboration with Orlando Cubitt; Nick Jordan; Kaz; Demelza Kooij; Mark Langley; Lisa Chang Lee; Melanie Manchot; Damon Mohl; Lucía Montero; Natalia Skobeeva; Lara Smithson; Alcaeus Spyrou; Charlie Tweed.

Programme 2 Melanie Manchot Launch, First Thursday 1 November, 6-9pmLaunching with live performance Home is Now (2017) by Hayley Harrison.

Saturday Special Screening, Sat 3 Nov, 3pm FREEMiloushka Bokma CYCLES (2015); Charlotte Ginsborg 22:22 (2017)

Saturday Special Screening, Sat 10 Nov, 3pm FREEDana Berman Duff Catalogue Vol.6 (2016); Tessa Garland Here East (2017); Kym McDaniel Exit Strategy #1 (2017); Janelle VanderKelen Clara (2016)

Saturday Special Screening, Sat 24 Nov, 3pm FREERachel Davies & Daniel Saul Winter (2018)

Headed by Bedwyr Williams, whose work is often fantastical, surreal and humorous, Programme 3 explores the idiosyncratic and everyday narratives of people’s lives. Williams’ Hypercaust (2017) – commissioned by Storyhouse Gallery, Chester – imagines an empty and moonlit Roman Fortress Bathhouse while recalling the hearsay of modern-day lives, taking the viewer to an occupied space out of time.

Exhibiting artists: Ankita Anand; Cody; Sandra Crisp; Davies, Monaghan and Klein; Rhona Foster; Roxman Gatt; Kwonjinn; Kounosuke Kawakami; Piotr Krzymowski; Matthew Lancit; John Lawrence; Ann-Marie LeQuesne; Laura O’Neill; Myles Painter; Rachel Povey; Ralph Pritchard; Phillip Reeves; Jack West; Bedwyr Williams.

Programme 3 Bedwyr Williams Performance Evening, Thurs 29 Nov, 6-9pm FREEAn invitation to laugh, join in and explore your own sense of being and identity. Performances from Ann-Marie LeQuesne, Kwonjinn, Jakob Rowlinson and Bedwyr Williams, who will be performing Après-MIDI (2018).

First Thursday Late, Thurs 6 Dec, 6-8pm FREEInaugural screening of Visions artist in residence Melanie King’s new film about space, followed by an In Conversation with King about the making of the work.

Saturday Special Screening, Sat 8 Dec, 3pm FREEEllie Kyungran Heo The Planet (2016); Prapat Jiwarangsan Destination Nowhere (2018); Mauricio Sanhueza The House (2018).

Visions in the Gallery Café (showing throughout Programme 1-3): Savinder Bual; Pieter Geenen; Dawn George; Carolina Jonsson; Eleanor Turnbull; Meng Zhou.

For more info and to book event tickets visit bowarts.org/whats-on

Programme 3 Bedwyr Williams 27 Nov – 16 Dec

28 September to 16 December free entry

Three programmes of international moving image and performance presenting over 60 artists through exhibitions and events

Programme 1 led by Tina Keane 28 Sep – 28 Oct

Programme 2 led by Melanie Manchot 30 Oct – 25 Nov

Programme 3 led by Bedwyr Williams 27 Nov – 16 Dec

For more info and full listings see bowarts.org/whats-onImage: Tina Keane, installation of Couch (2003) © Tina Keane, courtesy England & Co.