OPEN SOURCE is an artist-lead initiative based in East London. This year the programme explores subcultures, identity, fluidity and self-determination, across video, painting, installation and performance.

Marianna Simnett's The Udder (commissioned as part of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2014) will be screening from 7pm - 8pm on Saturday 28 May 2016.

Continuing the interplay between animality and domestication that distinguishes much of her work, Marianna Simnett’s piece revolves around the image of an udder as a symbol of innocence and abundance. All is not quite what it seems, however, as the piece develops into a wider reflection on our desire for pristine, virginal images of nature and our knowledge that these images, like milk itself, are not always inherently ‘natural’ but often the product of a complex system of technological manufacture.

OPEN SOURCE 2016 is curated by Emily Butler, Christine Eyene, Helen Nisbet, Joe Fletcher Orr & Doug Bowen, Richard Parry and Amy Sherlock.

The Udder was commissioned as part of the Jerwood/FVU Awards. A collaboration between Jerwood Charitable Foundation and FVU in association with CCA, Glasgow and University of East London. FVU is supported by Arts Council England.