Impossible Perspectives is an Abandon Normal Devices XR development and commissioning programme with its first iteration in collaboration with Cheshire East Council and Tatton Park.
Peut-Porter and CAN have been invited to develop new commissions in 2024/25 in response to and taking inspiration from Tatton Park’s rich landscape, collection, and connection to the Italian painter Canaletto whose paintings are part of the National Trust’s collection in Tatton’s Mansion.
Throughout the year Peut-Porter and CAN will devise proposals for a new digital, site-specific immersive experience and XR artwork. Both artists will be hosting in person workshops in Autumn 2024, which inform a future site-wide exhibition at Tatton Park.
Coming up:
Immerse yourself in speculative landscapes and histories with our Impossible Perspective Artists, Can and Peut Porter at Tatton Park on Saturday 28 September.
These workshops will create contemporary imaginings of Canaletto’s iconic artworks with visitors on the day, informing the development of the commissions, which are set to premier at a future site-wide exhibition at Tatton Park.
See me Appear – Who are you, Elizabeth Egerton? – Join Peut-Porter in a collective re-visioning of the unknown lives of the women of Tatton, extracting endless possibilities of the lives they led inside Tatton Park. Find out more
Collaging Canaletto – You and your own Impossible Perspective – CAN invite you to step into the landscapes of Venice and create a digital collage inspired by Canaletto’s intricate details using his extensive life’s work. Find out more
As Impossible Perspectives evolves we would like to thank Angela YT Chan, Enorê, Baff Akoto, Thomas Buckley and Kialy Tihngang, who took part in our labs in 2023 which created a space for sharing, learning and expanding their practices in scale and technologies of production, such as augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies (XR). Their contributions to the development of ideas and explorations as part of Impossible Perspectives at Tatton Park in 2023, have played a key role in uncovering and interrogating the ambition of the commissions and wider Canaletto exhibition.
Impossible Perspectives is a new UK XR commissioning programme. ‘Edition 1: Tatton Park’ is produced by Abandon Normal Devices, commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and Cheshire East Council. Supported with public funds from Art fund and Arts Council England.
Image credits: 1. All That Could Have Been (CAN), Photo credit Tim Bowditch