DIGITAL RESIDENCIES
Since 2023 our Digital Residencies specifically explore the transformative power of shared digital spaces to build real-life engagement empowering places and people often overlooked due to their identities and socio-economic realities, seeking to understand how digital culture can help individuals find and navigate and express their unique place within the cultural landscape.
DAVID BLANDY & PETRA SZEMÁN —
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(In progress) Updates from residencies by David Blandy and Petra Szemán - From late August 2025 the artists are working in collaboration, responding to the provocation: What defines “digital” as a place and how does that relate to our physical place of County Durham, in the wider context of the world? Join them for their public workshops at Castle Dene Shopping Centre, Peterlee: 27-29 Aug.
ANDREW WOOD —
‘SEVENTY FIVE THREADS’
Artists Andrew Wood has created a ‘game space’, representative of a digital version of the new town of Peterlee as it turned 75, where audiences could play the game of the hopes and unrealised futures of the town. “It’s impossible to tell the story of Peterlee, its 75 years, or to chart its course forward without first reckoning with its multitude of canceled futures.” - Andrew Wood, Artist.
ALISTAIR FLINDALL —
‘THE BISHOPS’
Artist Alastiar Flindall’s reimagining the nationally significant local sports heritage of Bishop Auckland Football Club (BAFC), combining his work with mural-making and community engagement with the club’s influence on the history of the sport, its part in the story and pride of the town and its deep-rooted connection with the communities of South West Durham.