- Introducing the artists
- David Batchelor
- Christian Boltanski
- Adam Chodzko
- Nathan Coley
- Tacita Dean
- Jeremy Deller
- Mark Dion
- Tracey Emin
- Ayse Erkmen
- Sejla Kameric
- Robert Kusmirowski
- Langlands & Bell
- Kaffe Matthews
- Heather & Ivan Morison
- Nils Norman with Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor
- Susan Philipsz
- public works
- Patrick Tuttofuoco
- Mark Wallinger
- Richard Wentworth
- Pae White
- Richard Wilson
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Tales of Time and Space, 2008. Photograph © Ivan and Heather Morison
Title: Tales of Space and Time
Location: This is a mobile work. Please check homepage and visitor centre for daily locations
Attracted by Folkestone’s connection with H.G. Wells, the Morisons have constructed a mobile Science Fiction library in the style of a 1970s Californian House Truck.
Made popular in America during the Hippy movement, these house trucks, similar to Gypsy caravans, are a symbol of freedom and a nomadic self-sufficient lifestyle. Following this tradition the Morison's version is hand built using Douglas fir from their arboretum in Wales onto a 1955 Green Goddess, ex army fire engine.
Inside, the truck houses hundreds of Science Fiction classics as well as soft sci-fi furnishings. It is staffed by a local Science Fiction enthusiast.
A series of related talks will be held throughout the summer. The house truck will be a base for a discursive forum where alternate possibilities, time and space can be speculated.
Translated text about each of the artworks into French, Turkish and Slovak can be found on the events page or from the visitor centre
About Heather & Ivan
Heather Morison, U.K, 1973. Ivan Morison U.K, 1974. Both live and work in Wales.
The Morison’s work varies from performance, video, photos, text and audio pieces, to a garden and an arboretum; all modest documentations of naturally occurring man-made phenomena, real and unreal.
Recent solo shows include
Bloomberg Space - London 2007
Earthwalker, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art – London 2006
Camden Arts Centre Tree Tour, Camden Arts Centre – London 2006
Starmaker, Charles H Scott Gallery – Vancouver 2005
Chinese Arboretum, Q Arts – Derby 2005
Heather & Ivan Morison do not understand it, IPS – Birmingham 2004
Recent group exhibitions include
Zoorama, part of Thin Cities, Piccadilly Line, Platform for Art – London 2007
British Art Show 6, Manchester – Nottingham and Bristol 2006
Human Nature, Pump House – Battersea, London 2005
The Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, 2005
The Morisons completed their first Science Fiction novel The Divine Vessel in 2003 and created a bedding scheme for the City of Westminster in spring 2004. The Morisons represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007.
See Heather and Ivan Morison's work
www.morison.info