SLUICE VERNACULAR - COLCHESTER 2024

Developed in partnership with We Are The Minories, Sluice [Vernacular] Colchester
2024 will feature exhibitions, performances, screenings and talks throughout Colchester
town centre utilising cultural, municipal, and unoccupied commercial sites. Sluice 2024 is
an aggregation of artist and curator-led and non-profit organisations and initiatives.

Taking the idea of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, we proposed an exhibition space for people to come together and to engage in an opportunity for slow thinking and absorption. We look at the potential of engagement with the archive in order to do that - through imagery or texts that enable people to find ways to develop creativity, break out of particular patterns and find new ideas. The work of Sarah Wishart and Nicholas Middleton offers people the opportunity to listen, watch and play.

Nicholas Middleton

‘Jubilee’ 2022, 17m28s, digital video, 2022

Bank Holiday 5m00s, digital video, 2022

Sarah Wishart

Fifty minutes of direction - Animated film.
On Getting out of Stuck and Into The Archive - Podcast available in space with headphones
Fifty-two examples of direction - deck of cards to play in the space