And that’s a wrap!
𝐈𝐧 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 @orleanshousegallery by a group of @rcaied students.
Absolute pleasure to exhibit with all of you brilliant artists today.
Success! ✨
And thank you @pes_nes from all of us. You are so much!
In Other Worlds: Beyond Measure
Features work by MA Information Experience Design students at @royalcollegeofart
This weekend:
Opens Friday 15 2pm - Closes Monday 18 1pm
Private view Saturday 16 2pm
@pes_nes@rcaied
The works in this exhibition were developed in response to a brief and open call titled In Other Worlds: Beyond Measure, delivered in September 2025 by our Tutor and Researcher Nestor Pestana.
Worlds aren’t fixed, they unfold in the spaces between what we see and what we miss.
But what happens when the grid loosens? When attention drifts beyond what can be counted, measured, or controlled?
In these openings…
neglected ecologies speak back
hidden systems of power surface
embodied experiences unfold through time and gesture
new futures and new ways of knowing begin to take shape
Artists include: Avik Chamoli, Jung Min Yoon, Kaiyi Chen, Kunhao Shen, Lotem Rozen, Mai Anh Bui, Salma Kabil, Shuoyuan Cao, Siyuan Wang, Sohum Sharma, Talisa Rubina, Tamaki Miyase, Wei Tan, Wenjie Chen, Xiaoyi Sun, Xingyu Fan, Xinping Li, Yejin Seo, Yiran Liu, Zahra Baqer
Image: Xingyu Fan
In Other Worlds: Beyond Measure
A group exhibition at Orleans House Gallery featuring videogames, performance, films, and installations by students from the Information Experience Design MA at the Royal College of Art. All works were developed in response to a brief and open call titled In Other Worlds: Beyond Measure, delivered in September 2025 by RCA tutor and researcher Nestor Pestana. Private View will be on Saturday 16 May at 14:00, with a performance at 14:00, followed by film screenings and a visit to the installations. (Booking link in bio)
Exhibition dates:
Fri. 15 May 14:00 -16:30
Sat. 16 May 10:00 -16:30
Sun. 17 May 10:00 -16:30
Mon. 18 May 10:00 -13:00
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Private View (free):
Sat. 16 May at 14:00
(Booking link in bio)
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Worlds do not arrive fully formed. They unfold in the gaps of what we notice and what we overlook. They are held in place by grids of infrastructure, measure and control, organising movement, perception and value.
But they can change when a story leans a little differently, when a thought takes an unexpected turn, when attention drifts towards what refuses to be counted.
Here, the grid hesitates. Those neat lines of measure loosen, and other shapes begin to appear. Shapes that do not ask to be efficient, profitable, or absolute.
In these openings…
Neglected ecologies begin to speak back. Environments and more-than-human relationships emerge as active participants in shaping shared worlds.
Hidden infrastructures of power surface, revealing the quiet systems through which we are often unknowingly controlled by.
Embodied experiences inscribe themselves onto the self, unfolding through gesture and time.
Speculative worlds emerge, different logics take hold, as the terms of reality are redefined.
Together, the works we present in this exhibition ask what worlds become possible when we step, however briefly, beyond measure.
Text by: Talisa Rubina
Image by: Xingyu Fan
Exhibiting Artists:
Avik Chamoli
Ivan Silva
Jung Min Yoon
Kaiyi Chen
Kunhao Shen
Lotem Rozen
Mai Anh Bui
Salma Kabil
Shuoyuan Cao
Siyuan Wang
Sohum Sharma
Talisa Rubina
Tamaki Miyase
Wei Tan
Wenjie Chen
Xiaoyi Sun
Xingyu Fan
Xinping Li
Yejin Seo
Yiran Liu
Zahra Baqer
Such a pleasure to meet Professor @takayuki_ikegawa last night! Really enjoyed our conversations, as always! We first met during my research residency in Japan back in 2018/19, while I was working on a research project at Kyoto Institute of Technology with Casio. The outcome of that residency was "Art, Crime & Algorithms", a short film and a series of cute little robots exploring a technology Casio was developing at the time (more on my website).
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Thanks for getting in touch Ikegawa-san! And hope we can continue our conversations soon (hopefully in Japan =)
If you are in London tomorrow Sat 2 Aug, join me at 2pm at @orleanshousegallery for a conversation I will moderate. Guests: my collaborator @stephanieholtnaturalhistory and poet @brihughespoet . We will delve into themes around darkness, bats, and poetry. All this accompanied by poetry reciting from Briony and a short story from @noamtoran AND! Some amazing tunes from @ronnieism
This is a free event, and you can get your tickets (and more info) by following the link in my bio
Illustration by @uttupiii
🦇 see you there 🦇
Come along to our event on Saturday at @orleanshousegallery exploring our project Bats: A New Dark Aesthetic! (see my linktree for full details and booking) #Bats #ArtAndScience
Join us 2 August for the Bats Project, a conversation on darkness, bats and poetry 🦇
Part recital, part lecture, and part conversation, this event is an invitation to creatively and critically reflect on our relationships with darkness and bats. Artist Nestor Pestana will moderate the event with contributions from writer Noam Toran (@noamtoran ), poet Briony Hughes (@brihughespoet ), sound artist Ronnie Deelen and bat expert Stephanie Holt (@stephanieholtnaturalhistory ).
This event is part of New Dark Aesthetics: The Bats Project, a research project created and led by @pes_nes . The project is kindly supported by @royalcollegeofart , London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and @henrymoorefdn_grants .
Book for free via the link in our bio 🔗
Illustration by Utkarsh Pathak (@uttupiii )
#FreeEvent #ArtandNature #CulturalReforesting #LondonExhibition #DiscoverLondon #RichmondUponThames
Pictures from a sculpture prototype I've been working on - Ovum. Currently on display at @orleanshousegallery .
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This is a prototype for an architectural sculpture that I am designing for and with bats in mind. The final sculpture would be 5-ish meters high and stand in the Orleans House Gallery woodland. Ovum is not only an artwork, but realised in its full size, would function as a maternity roost for female pipistrelle bats and their pups.
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To ensure the design meets the needs of these bats, I've been collaborating with bat expert @stephanieholtnaturalhistory from the Natural History Museum. The black half shows the exterior, the wooden half the interior.
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This project has kindly been suported by the @royalcollegeofart , @henrymoorefdn_grants , @richmondcouncil
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#bats @batconservationtrust #pipistrelle @natural_history_museum
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Pictures by: @wizxerophyte
In Other Worlds: Futures Forgotten
Exhibition currently on at @orleanshousegallery until Monday 21
Private view: today Sat. 19 at 14:00
All invited!
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Here you can see pictures of some of the works that my wonderful @rcaied students are exhibiting!
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All pictures taken by @wizxerophyte
All invited to an exhibition I am organising for a group of @rcaied students at @orleanshousegallery next week. Opening on Saturday 19 at 14:00. See below for more info:
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In Other Worlds: Futures Forgotten
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Unfulfilled ecological dreams. Undelivered technological promises. Lies. Conspiracy theories. Forgotten histories - futures that failed to materialise. In Other Worlds explores these broad and complex narratives as starting points to imagine (im)possible futures, aiming to question and challenge dominant norms and systems around techno-solutionism, colonialism, climate narratives and surveillance capitalism.
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Through methodologies drawn from gaming, divination, future scaping, and worldbuilding, students have translated their visions into a series of installations and experiences. The works manifest in various forms - moving image, physical artefacts and installations - each one a thought experiment that doesn't intend to put forward solutions, but rather to make us think about our present realities - a space for critical reflection and collective imagination.
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In Other Worlds: Future Forgotten is a group exhibition that features the work of students from the MA Information Experience Design programme at the Royal College of Art. All the pieces on display were developed in response to a brief with the same name, delivered by tutor Nestor Pestana in September 2024.
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Exhibiting Artists:
Abhra Sengupta
Aibei Wu
Audrey Jeanne Renouf
Chunxi Chen
Fatimah Alabed
Hanwen Li
Huilin Yang
Shuting Cui
Wei Zixuan
Xiao Zhang
Yifei Cheng
Yinqi Li
Yuheng Jin
Yuxing Chen
Zhuozhuo Liu
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Poster designed by Hanwen Li and Chunxi Chen
