Description: Creative Studio
LEAVING SPACE is a new creative studio based in London and Rotterdam, co-founded by artists-filmmakers Ugo Petronin & Tim Travers Hawkins .
We share a deep love for nature and the environment, and the studio was born out of a desire to address the ecological challenges we face by providing a catalyst for interactions between art, science and technology. We will draw on our experience in film production, interactive and multimedia art to initiate collaborations that centre non-human perspectives. Our main focus is to critically explore the relationship between humans and the environment by producing playful work that challenges preconceptions, r
Our first project Becoming Soma is in development, supported by a grant from the Netherlands Film Fund. It is a cross platform exploration of “ecological embodiment” and multi-species relations. We are looking both at the potential for new media technologies such as VR to approach non-human embodied experiences, as well as other pre-existing human strategies of ecological embodiment including ritual, music, dance and hallucinogens, and investigating how these experiences can contribute to transforming huma