Join us in the midst of ONCA's becoming-animal exhibition to hear tales of fox-women, wolf-girls and forest speakers. From Red Riding Hoods to Siberian Shamans, this is a night of tales familiar and unfamiliar, old and new, in which skin becomes a site of transition, and finding a home becomes an entirely different quest. Join […]
What is the role of becoming-animal in promoting ecological activity? Join us for an debate event in association with the University of Brighton Saturday 30th August 2014, 5pm-8pm, Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton. Is a change of shape needed to change our ways of being? From myth, fairy tale and popular fiction, shape-shifting, or becoming-animal, is a resonant image […]
Featuring artist Jennifer Hooper, Founder Laura Coleman and CIWY Head of International Relations Jonathan Cassidy. In 1992, Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi was born, an NGO that works tirelessly to rescue and rehabilitate animals captured and sold on the Bolivian black market. In 2012, Laura Coleman set up the gallery in Brighton, inspired to bring together […]
Zooetics is a five year art research project on the boundary between human knowledge and the knowledge of other species. The project is led by Jutempus (Nomeda Urbonas, Gediminas Urbonas, Tracey Warr and Viktorija Siaulyte). It began last year by unpacking, re-evaluating and re-combining notions of The Anthropocene, Nature and Interspecies. Now the team are […]
The event is now fully booked, we have started a waiting list so please register your details if you'd like to be notified if a booking becomes available. Many thanks, ONCA. This symposium, organised by the University of Brighton, explores our auditory encounter with the urban environment and asks how we might plan for the […]
Although most of us live in towns and cities, what goes on in the countryside affects us all, because around 70% of Britain is farmland. UK farming produces 60% of our food - food production is our biggest manufacturing industry, employing nearly 4 million people. A sustainable food industry is vital for our economy and […]
Join artists Lorenza Ippolito and CiCi Blumstein plus guest speakers and artists, including Rich Plastow (founder of Loop.Coop), Sam Watts (3D Producer at MakeMedia), Xelís de Toro (performance artist & poet to explore gaming) and Rosa Emerald Fox (director, CodeBar Brighton & She Codes Brighton) to explore gaming SeriousPlay, binary thinking, performative embodiment, 3-D printing, the […]
Howard Johns, author of ‘Energy Revolution’ is an energy engineer, entrepreneur, business leader and activist. After a formative involvement in the environmental protest movement, he set about building solutions, eventually founding Southern Solar – a national solar energy company – and Ovesco, a locally owned renewable energy cooperative. Howard is convinced we have all the […]
Go beyond boundaries, discovering new ways to see and re-connect Blackbirds Film Festival is a community project, sharing films for environmental and social change. After the success of the Festival in 2015, Blackbirds continues to develop with the key question: what is true diversity? We aim to reach wider audiences and provide a space for people from all backgrounds […]
This March, ONCA is delighted to host EARTH, a new commission and selected artworks by internationally acclaimed land artist and ONCA patron Chris Drury. At 7.30pm on Saturday March 12th, come to ONCA for a very special chance to hear Drury and fellow earth artist Daro Montag discuss their work. Drury’s EARTH works explore themes such […]
Climate Change: illustrations from the geological record John Cooper, Keeper of Natural Sciences at the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, responds to and discusses some of the themes of EARTH. He will use specimens from the collections of the museum including Chalk fossils, insects in amber, and even a dinosaur bone! John will guide us […]
This event is an introduction to The Pig in Thin Air, Alex Lockwood's new book. The session will include a warm-up/ provocation to introduce the idea of human/ nonhuman entanglement, a chance to see video of some of the work done at the moment in animal advocacy and encounter (non-graphic), and then a reading from the […]
What is the role of art in holistic support for people affected by, and living with, cancer? Thursday 7th July, 6-8pm: Anarchy in the Organism – artist talk and discussion. As the new Macmillan Horizon Centre is about to open in Brighton, invites you to an evening of art and conversation about the role of creativity in holistic […]
This talk will offers insights into the performance at Birling Gap and the traces on display at . Julieanna's performance works test the limits of human and other material communication in the context of live and place-situated interactions. Questioning, even challenging, the long term culturally constructed idea that some matter is dead, some matter reigns […]
As part of Brighton Digital Festival, Terry Trickett will be performing MAKING MUSIC TALK live in the ONCA Gallery. MAKING MUSIC TALK: a demonstration of three separate pieces of Visual Music – each will include a performance on solo clarinet matched by the simultaneous projection of a visual interpretation of the pieces. TURINGALILA: an interpretation of Alan […]
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