the orphans of water
a presentation of 6 new multi-media works
at PINK Gallery, Stockport
made by collective intelligence process involving:
Nick Booton, Adamah Bekkouche, arrowfive, Chester Bell, Nico Byrne, Hannah Cobb, Kris Cooper, Sim Edwards, Foam Necklace, The Grand Tour, Fallen Lemon, Jasmine Grant, Trish Gregory, Tv_Guy, Zachary Jackson, Sue Johnson, Thea Luckock, Tanith Mab, Manu MacTaggart, Buffeee, Huzifah Mullah, The Point, Pearl, Felix Rigby, Jim Richardson, Sophie Robinson, Joe Taylor, Qew Shi, Ship Sket, Hannah Warren, Stanley Wilshire
Contents
Forward by Sim Edwards
TvGuy
The Host/The Disintegration of Pangaea
Social Delight
Can We Follow The Route …
New Age Pyjama Set
Appendixes:
Audio Immersion
Can We Follow The Route Re-staged
Interview with Chip Watsits
Afterword
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The Host/The Disintegration of Pangaea
PW
arrowfive (performance) & ShipSket (audio)
timed outfit
October 24, 2025
The Host presides. Pangaea disintegrates. The event finishes when the final name-tag falls off the Host's body. The story of the Orphans takes place only in the time it takes for Pangaea to be shed onto the exhibition floor. They also hand out leaflets.
Tvguy
Chip Watsits
twin-channel video and projection onto tank of water
r/t 10.01
2025
The Orphans gather round a tank to water to watch a guided meditation. The parable of TV Guy, he who made off with the reflected glimmer. When he gave it back the whole world changed - it had been there all along. It is a lesson in wholeness.
install
Tvguy – channel 1 feed
Tvguy – projection onto tank of water
install
written by Sim Edwards
performed by Jim Richardson, Pearl, Sue Johnson & Oliver Norton
podcast play
October 24, 2025
The Orphans sit around a table. They've never met each-other before. They are trying to decide what social whole they are parts of. It is a careful negotiation, mostly silent. Anyone could take the roles, the scripts were left on the table. The perfect conditions for social delight - No memory, only emergence.
INSTINCT
And so we proceed, passed unevenly from silence to silence.
[30 second silence]
UTILITY
Good.
[5 minute silence]
WILLINGNESS
I awoke this morning with a glimmer of light reflected across me and with… footage… of a water vole on my camera traps.
Dir. Manu MacTaggart
Guy Rudin, Erin Copp, Manu MacTaggart, Matthew Chappell
with soundtrack by The Grand Tour and Buffee
r/t 26.25
2025
Filmed on headcams, the Orphans underground, in Leeds. From way back, another moment in their history together. Obsessed with plumbing, looking through pipe-networks, trying to find their way back to each-other. What aqueduct can restore the lost flow between us? They are watched by a disparate online community.
the youtube video