Open City Documentary Festival 2026: Expanded Realities
Open City Documentary Festival, London, 15-19 April 2026
The 2026 Expanded Realities exhibition, A Sense of Space, brought together projects which explore the relationship between our senses and the environments around us using a range of media including VR, audio, installation and video games.
Constantinopoliad and Peace of Mind make use of audio to untangle the ways in which the creative process is shaped by the people and events around us. Friends, lovers and family members become inspirations and collaborators, be it the poetry of Cavafy or a first cut of a song. Both projects make the case for the process of making art being porous, always evolving in response to the people and places in which it is taking place.
Alice Bucknell’s projects, Earth Engine and Ground Truthing, and Kris Hofmann’s Out of Nowhere explore how our rapidly-changing climate is shaping the ways in which we make sense of our environments. The works call attention to what we notice and how we notice it when interacting with the landscapes around us. Whether it is recreating memories of objects destroyed in a flood or the development of AI, satellite and digital modelling, these works ask us to consider if the transformations in our ecology may need us to transform how we understand our relationships with the planet.
More information can be found here.
Open City Documentary Festival, London, 15-19 April 2026
The 2026 Expanded Realities exhibition, A Sense of Space, brought together projects which explore the relationship between our senses and the environments around us using a range of media including VR, audio, installation and video games.
Constantinopoliad and Peace of Mind make use of audio to untangle the ways in which the creative process is shaped by the people and events around us. Friends, lovers and family members become inspirations and collaborators, be it the poetry of Cavafy or a first cut of a song. Both projects make the case for the process of making art being porous, always evolving in response to the people and places in which it is taking place.
Alice Bucknell’s projects, Earth Engine and Ground Truthing, and Kris Hofmann’s Out of Nowhere explore how our rapidly-changing climate is shaping the ways in which we make sense of our environments. The works call attention to what we notice and how we notice it when interacting with the landscapes around us. Whether it is recreating memories of objects destroyed in a flood or the development of AI, satellite and digital modelling, these works ask us to consider if the transformations in our ecology may need us to transform how we understand our relationships with the planet.
More information can be found here.
