Arabella Turner

write, Sound, movie, Ecology, Digital, Audiovisual, Artistic research

Arabella Turner (UK/NL) is a filmmaker, audio-visual artist and writer whose practice employs video, sound, and text to explore narrative potentials of the beyond human. Her work challenges the grand narrative approach of history and contemporary visions of the future by combining perspectives of the human and non-human such as landscapes, the animal world and technologies. In doing so she seeks to reveal overlooked layers of history, meaning and cultural resonance. Through visual notations and painterly imagery, she crafts audio-visual works that intertwine visual, auditory, and textual elements, portraying non-human being as active agents shaping both external narratives and our internal experiences. Rooted in ecological consciousness, her work invites viewers to reimagine their relationship with the past, speculative futures, and the evolving present around them.

As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper (trailer)
As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper (trailer) - In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals. Through geological, technological, animal and human gazes we traverse between these two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place.
FilmDakLeaks
FilmDakLeaks - Basements and attics are places where we hide precious things, old memories, or forgotten objects, but they are also spaces for experimentation and trial. In its first presentation outside the TOT building, FilmDak has descended from the attic to the basement to present FilmDakLeaks, a site-specific work that serves as a collective statement. Invited by the Studio's Lange Hilleweg 235 and inspired by the vapor atmosphere of its basement, we have created a video loop. Somewhere between Cadavre Exquis and the Telephone Game, each of us worked individually for three days, editing from a shared video archive before passing it on to the next member. Through this process, we have explored the nature of collaboration—its uneasiness, unpredictability, and the ways in which individual gestures can shape and transform the collective. Contributors: Aitana López Rodrigo, Arabella Turner, Ariela Bergman, Flora Reznik, Jue Yang, Lavinia Xausa, Panida ʻTeʼ Petchara, Salvador Miranda, Sam Koopman and Tess Martin
Bury/Imprint/Tunnel (trailer)
Bury/Imprint/Tunnel (trailer) - Trailer for short film made during a residency at Au Brana Center supported by Culture Moves Europe.
Their Singing Shifts the Soil
Their Singing Shifts the Soil - Image taken from exhibition Their Singing Shifts the Soil, where I exhibited the film Bury/Imprint/Tunnel.
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY exhibition
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY exhibition - Image from CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY exhibition, where I exhibited the project As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper. Digital video, single channel, 15 min. Ink pen on paper, 101cm x 180cm.
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper - A still from short film As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper. In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals. As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper weaves geological, technological, animal and human gazes to traverse between two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place. Accompanying the film are two sets of drawings that expand on upon the narrative structure of the film.
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper BTS
As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper BTS - BTS from As Cliffs Roar Caves Whisper
I have Despair and Paper (aka Love and Paper)
I have Despair and Paper (aka Love and Paper) - Short film made during a portraiture workshop with the artist Res. A wandering note and a memory of a film shop meet at the bottom of an active volcano.

FilmDakLeaks

Date:
Location: Studio's Lange Hilleweg 235
In association with: South Explorer and Art Rotterdam

Basements and attics are places where we hide precious things, old memories, or forgotten objects, but they are also spaces for experimentation and trial. In its first presentation outside the TOT building, FilmDak has descended from the attic to the basement to present FilmDakLeaks, a site-specific work that serves as a collective statement.

Attrition

Date:
Location: Pauilhac, France
In association with: Au Brana Centre

A residency on the theme of Attrition supported by Culture Moves Europe.

CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY

Date:
Location: V2 Lab for Unstable Media, UBIK/WORM
In association with: V2 Lab for Unstable Media, UBIK/WORM

Master students of the Lens-Based Media program at the Piet Zwart Institute invite you to their graduation show at V2 and WORM, Rotterdam.

We are here and we need to tell you something. CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY brings attention to urgent questions through the practice of moving image. Along 14 distinct works, each their own current, we explore personal, political and ecological concerns in the world we live in.

Flying Ideas

Date:
Location: WORM
In association with: WORM

Flying Ideas is a collective space for works-in-progress. We recognize that the processes of development in between finished works are where we spend most of our time. Yet, this time is often hidden, or if anything is whispered about; it is rarely brought to the forefront, instead attention is focused on the 'final' outcome.

As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper

Date:
Location: Rotterdam
In association with: WORM

In 1783 two riding officers survey a horizon from a clifftop in southern England. On the beach below, in 2043, a geologist investigates the caves and surrounding geological forms for useful minerals.

As Cliffs Roar, Caves Whisper weaves geological, technological, animal and human gazes to traverse between two timelines, creating a composite reflective of the geologically rich landscape in which both narratives take place. Accompanying the film are two sets of drawings that expand upon the after

https://www.arabellaturner.net
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