The Sea View Has Me Again
Patrick Wright & Shona Illingworth will broadcast a conversation recorded as they walk on Sheppey, alongside readings by local residents.
14 Days on the North Atlantic
Simon Faithfull shares exerpts of his diary, kept during a 14-day journey across the Atlantic on a container-ship, from the end of Southend Pier.
26 Days on the Southern Ocean
Simon Faithfull's '26 Days on the Southern Ocean' is a series of text panels mounted onto the railings of Margate Harbour Arm.
A Hoo Catalog
double-face will spend time on Hoo Peninsular, looking, listening, interacting and responding. Their thoughts and actions will be logged via an online space, which will evolve and build throughout the duration of the project.
An English Garden
An English Garden is the Estuary 2021 iteration of How to Make a Bomb, the durational gardening project by artist Gabriella Hirst.
An Unknown Earth
The well-known quote from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness takes on new meaning as four artist/curators, living in the Thames Estuary invite artists, performers and activists to join them in our online Opening Weekend programme
and the thing is
Maggie Harris 'and the thing is' is a poem about immigration, and questions about race, exile, and how we find identity and home.
Conrad to Containers: Barking to Beijing
A participatory walk and ritual that invites us to join the dots and think about the hidden costs of our consumptive lifestyles in the place where Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness.
Crude Britannia
Platform’s project, Crude Britannia, looks at the history, present and future of energy across the expanse of the Thames Estuary.
Cyanotype Workshops with Southend Beach Rubbish Project
Come and join us, on Jubilee Beach in Southend-on-Sea, for some fun, outdoor workshops that combine beach cleaning and cyanotype printing, an early photographic process.
Data Tree
A conceptual way marker placed at a point where paths diverge, created by artist Jonathan Wright in conversation with park visitors and communities.
Deep Thames // Visit Cretaceous
Lydia Brockless' 'Deep Thames // Visit Cretaceous' looks at the materials of Ebbsfleet, and the layers of human and non-human experience contained in the ground beneath our feet.