D6: culture in transit
  • Home
    • An open letter to the UK Government to keep the UK in the Creative Europe programme
  • About us
    • About D6
    • OUR TEAM
    • NETWORKS
    • Supporters
    • Opportunities
    • Hire >
      • Space Hire
      • Equipment Hire
      • The Big M
    • Our Privacy Policy
  • Artists
    • Current >
      • Marcio Carvalho
      • Stelios Kalinikou
      • Anna Carreras
      • Sara Baga
      • Monika Rikic
      • Dimitris Chimonas
      • Nicola Singh
      • Akeelah Bertram
      • Kia Redman
      • Henna Asikainen
      • Cat Auburn
    • Archive
  • Programme
    • There is Beauty in this Journey
    • Programme Archive
  • Sector Support
    • Pilot Cities
    • Culture Bridges
    • Creative Europe UK
    • Events and Conferences >
      • We Make Tomorrow Summit
      • Common Ground: Culture, Climate and Social Justice
      • Creative Europe, Erasmus+ and Beyond
      • Thinking International 2019
      • Culture 2030
      • Thinking International
      • Tate Exchange
      • Brexit: Ireland, Britain and the Arts in the Years Ahead
      • Beyond The Obvious
      • Continental Drift?
      • Voices of Culture
      • Beyond The Obvious
  • D6: EU
  • Culture in Transit
  • What We Think
  • Contact Us
  • Home
    • An open letter to the UK Government to keep the UK in the Creative Europe programme
  • About us
    • About D6
    • OUR TEAM
    • NETWORKS
    • Supporters
    • Opportunities
    • Hire >
      • Space Hire
      • Equipment Hire
      • The Big M
    • Our Privacy Policy
  • Artists
    • Current >
      • Marcio Carvalho
      • Stelios Kalinikou
      • Anna Carreras
      • Sara Baga
      • Monika Rikic
      • Dimitris Chimonas
      • Nicola Singh
      • Akeelah Bertram
      • Kia Redman
      • Henna Asikainen
      • Cat Auburn
    • Archive
  • Programme
    • There is Beauty in this Journey
    • Programme Archive
  • Sector Support
    • Pilot Cities
    • Culture Bridges
    • Creative Europe UK
    • Events and Conferences >
      • We Make Tomorrow Summit
      • Common Ground: Culture, Climate and Social Justice
      • Creative Europe, Erasmus+ and Beyond
      • Thinking International 2019
      • Culture 2030
      • Thinking International
      • Tate Exchange
      • Brexit: Ireland, Britain and the Arts in the Years Ahead
      • Beyond The Obvious
      • Continental Drift?
      • Voices of Culture
      • Beyond The Obvious
  • D6: EU
  • Culture in Transit
  • What We Think
  • Contact Us
D6: culture in transit

programme archive

We are producers of temporary art in public spaces, both physical and virtual. From the intimate to the spectacular, our commissions explore the relationships between the communities who use public spaces and their socio-political environments. Whilst our work is centred on people and communities, it is also sensitively exposed to debate and exhibition through festivals and events.
Picture

Delicate Shuttle

From 22 June - 7 October 2018 as part of the Great Exhibition of the North, Refugee Week and the European Year of Cultural Heritage we presented Delicate Shuttle, a newly commissioned artwork by Henna Asikainen for Newcastle City Library. >>
Picture

corners of europe

CORNERS of Europe draws threads between people and places on the outer edges of Europe, from Taranto in Italy to Gdansk in Poland, from the Balkans to South East Northumberland. CORNERS considers what we share and what defines us. >>
Picture

Common Ground

​Common Ground brings together artists, cultural organisations and communities from the east to the west of Europe. Common Ground explores the role of public space as a place for free expression, social encounter and shared responsibility. >>
Picture

Mural 2018 comissions

Mural is a visually rich online platform that simplifies the process of combining audio-visual material in a full screen storytelling narrative. In 2018 we produced a series new commissions created by artists to test this platform. >> 
Picture

​YOUNG EUROPEANS

​Leading up to the 2016 EU referendum, we worked with New Writing North and artist Susannah Pickering to answer the question Should we stay or should we go? A group of Cuckoo Young Writers explored what Europe and the EU meant to them, from the personal to the political. >>
Picture

Superdream

Superdream took place across 2 continents, connecting Jeppe Park in Johannesburg and Windmill Hills Park in Gateshead, exploring urban living, uses of public space and the role that local communities can play in stabilising and redefining public cultural life. >>
Picture

Youth Work Revisited

Working in collaboration with Silx Teen Bar and the Over 50s Forum in Blyth, Youth Work Revisited explores the Youth Clubs and Societies of Blyth from 1930 to the present day. >>
Picture

​YOUNG STORYTELLERS

We worked in Blyth, the East and West end of Newcastle and Tees Valley to train young people as community journalists. We wanted to start a debate about cultural difference with diverse groups of young people in these areas of the North East, which was challenging but necessary. >>
Picture

CrISIS

​Commencing in 2014, crISIS is an international programme of commissions and residencies with ISIS Arts (now D6) in partnership with regional, national and international collaborators. The 2 year programme allowed artists to explore this transitional world from pre- to post-crisis. >>
Picture

EVER WANTED TO BE SOMEONE ELSE?

​We joined Simon Farid for a day of identity experimentation in June 2014, involving workshops and collective discussions where we looked at and analysed different aspects of our identity; from the ways we present ourselves to the contents of our wallets. >>
Picture

WLKR

From September 2014 to February 2015, Jeremiah Alexander was Artist in Residence in Walker, working with students from Walker Technology College. Together they underwent a journey of discovery into Walker, its places and its people and developed the WLKR App. >>
Picture

On The Precipice

On the Precipice is a stunning programme of immersive 3-screen film installations curated by digital artist Kelly Richardson and produced by D6 that explore our relationship to contemporary landscape and the effect humans have had on the natural environment. >>
Picture

​​GÖTEBORG CULTURE FESTIVAL

Summer 2012 saw us travel to Sweden with our inflatable mobile exhibition space, The Big M, to the Göteborg Culture Festival. We screened a contemporary video programme of works by UK and Nordic filmmakers on the theme of Rights to a Future. >>
Picture

Artist's Mobility Lab

We organised the first Artists’ Mobility Lab in May 2011 in collaboration with Turning Point North East (CVAN). It addressed visual arts organisations, networks, festivals, galleries and practitioners committed to international cultural exchange. >>
Picture

​​3D KARAOKE

We presented G.H. Hovagimyan's interactive artwork 3D Karaoke at the NewBridge Project Space as part of Convention Habit or Custom in April 2013, during his residency with D6 and Newcastle Gateshead Initiative (NGI). >>
Picture

Homelands

Homelands was a community residency project initiated by D6 taking place in the North East region over a two-year period, including residencies in the UK for regional and international artists to connect with our Diaspora communities. >>
Picture

AV Festival 12

For AV Festival 2012, Marina Zurkow presented Mesocosm (Northumberland UK), a 146-hour animated portrait of the Northumberland moors representing one year of real time developed during an D6 research residency in 2009. >>
Picture

Abandon Normal Devices, Preston

D6 and The Big M, the world's first inflatable cinema, teamed up with Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival to present an experimental and diverse film programme for Flagmarket Square in the heart of Preston. >>
Picture

The Nomadic Village

From 21 May to 3 June 2012, County Durham hosted a village within a town, when a 'Nomadic Village' of over 30 international artists made its temporary home in Wolsingham. >>
Picture

Participation Lab

In February 2011 a group of artists and practitioners experienced in and concerned with methods of public engagement gathered to examine practice and explore issues related to the field of participatory art. >>
Picture

Contemporary Chinese Artists

We presented the work of four contemporary Chinese artists as part of EAST '08, a celebration of contemporary Asian culture in NewcastleGateshead, which included premiere's and screenings of artists' film and video work. >>
Picture

Dignity of Difference

D6 worked with multi-media artist Francis Gomila to present Dignity of Difference, a citywide series of education and community projects leading up to Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2007, when Newcastle provided the national focus for events taking place around the country. >>
Picture

On The Waterfront, Liverpool

D6 presented an outstanding collection of films, selected from the best of The Big M archive, at On the Waterfront festival in Liverpool in our impressive inflatable space the Big M. >>
Picture

Durham Enlightenment Festival

D6 was commissioned to bring an Indian focus to the Enlightenment Festival of Light in Durham, which was presented as part of the region's EAST 08 programme. Light of Darkness was created by Sanchayan Ghosh and Calcutta Lights was produced by Nandita Palchoudhuri. >>
Picture

Fallen Idyll

D6 presented two videos by Monica Ross which reflected on housing conditions at the time through her observations of St. Lawrence Square, Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, over a span of 5 years. >>
Picture

​​INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL, SOFIA, Bulgaria

D6 presented a new video screening programme co-curated by BEK, Galleri 3,14 of contemporary South African artists. The ten video works from both emerging and established artists explore the social landscape of South Africa. >>
Picture

At Home in Europe

 At Home in Europe was a year-long Culture 2000 media arts project addressing European identity taking place in 2007, which considered what being 'at home’ in Europe meant for nomadic artists and transient wider communities. >>
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.