From the 6th of March to the 8th of April, 2026
Curated By VVV-Residency
Artists: Bridge Phillips, Jay Orren, Tristan Robinson
The exhibition “Visual Conversation” displays the result of the research and sharing process that began in January with the VVV-R research and audiovisual production residency.
In March, the exhibition was presented at SuperOtium, Naples, including talks and meetings with artists, curated by Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo.
VVV-R and the exhibition “ Visual Conversation ” are a Visualcontainer Platform and Vegapunk// Ex-Voto project curated by Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo in collaboration with Arts University Bournemouth, as part of Global Networks and SuperOtium.
VISUAL CONVERSATION
The three artists in Visual Conversations use found footage and archival images as a shared curatorial strategy to question how contemporary systems make experience readable: AI that narrates life through statistical “milestones,” instructional media that present control as care, and cinematic modernity that turns subjectivity into a monitored simulation. Across the programme, montage becomes a critical method that reduces the distance between image and regime—between what is shown and what is governed—so that intimacy, landscape, and identity appear as contested terrains.
It is from the friction between AI-generated visibility and lived experience that Jay Orren’s Ungeneratable (2026) begins: using stock footage, AI depicts life as a predictable sequence shaped by repetition, while Orren counters with archival material that insists on affect and shared presence. By refusing to “improve” the machine’s output—taking no creative liberties with its “half”—the work turns procedure into ethics, and exposes the limits of a life understood through frequency, data, and recognisability.
Tristan Robinson’s Trimming (2026) enters through the seemingly benign language of advice. Recutting an old gardening show, pastoral instruction collides with pruning, pesticide spraying, and the disciplined maintenance of greenery, revealing a quiet violence beneath cultivated beauty. Tourism footage and London’s imposing architecture extend this logic beyond the garden, connecting horticulture to the wider aesthetics of containment through which environments—and, by implication, living systems—are shaped into order.
In Vantage (Bridge Phillips, 2026), 1930s Hong Kong found footage, paired with Metropolis (1927), the work situates itself at the brink of modernity. From this historical threshold, Phillips frames womanhood as a simulated condition within systems of pursuit and surveillance, yet redirects vulnerability into agency: survival becomes reclamation, and perspective becomes advantage. Even the low-resolution marker in the title functions as an index of mediated existence—an image that persists in partiality, resisting the demand to be fully legible.
Together, the works do not offer a unified thesis, but a set of precise visual arguments: against total legibility, against the naturalisation of control, and for montage as a curatorial practice capable of restoring complexity to what images—and the systems behind them—try to stabilise.
Video List
Bridge Phillips – Vantage, 4’32”, 2026
Paired with Metropolis (1927), the 1930’s Hong Kong found footage situates Vantage within a world on the brink of transformation. Vantage reflects my personal experience of womanhood as something simulated. It explores what it means to exist within systems that neither recognise nor sustain you – to be pursued, monitored and forced to run from truths that feel unbearable. Yet through confrontation and acceptance, vulnerability shifts into strength. In Vantage, survival is an act of reclamation, where lived experience becomes power and perspective becomes advantage.
Jay Orren – Ungeneratable, 5′ 12″, 2026
Ungeneratable is a Moving image work depicting the contrast of AI-generated perception of human life and my own depiction. Using a stock footage, AI presents life as a sequence of visible milestones shaped by statistical repetition. In response, I argue using archival footage that it is the heart that beats in the unification and beauty of sharing the experience of life with others. The piece questions how life in understood when visibility, frequency and data replace the purity of lived experiences. The generation of the AI’s depiction is through communication with Ai and I ensuring to take no creative liberties with their half.
Tristan Robinson – Trimming, 9’23”, 2026
Trimming is a fragmented reworking of an old gardening show, cut and reassembled to expose the quiet violence beneath cultivated beauty. Pastoral advice collides with pesticide spraying, greenery hacked back, and manicured landscapes reshaped for control. Intercut tourism footage and imposing London buildings echo this tension, revealing how leisure, architecture, and horticulture share impulses of dominance, containment, and aesthetic order over living systems.
V V V – R
VISUALCONTAINER VEGAPUNK VIDEOART RESIDENCY
video art residencies
a project by
Alessandra Arnò, Visualcontainer
Simona Da Pozzo, Vegapunk.
VVV Residency is a project of critical reflection and an audiovisual production time articulated through a residency, an exhibition and an event to introduce the student to the contemporary artistic professional field.
The project is articulated around a web-based artistic residency in its tools and the analysis and use of online digital audiovisuals to create new works.
VVV-Residency is an online residency, an exhibition and an event time
The project aims to experiment with moving image and video art through an online artistic residence in which the Academy’s students while creating the work, move in a professional research environment with process collaborative and horizontal.
The path ends with selecting the most exciting works and their presentation and promotion on a professional level through the online exhibition on the VisualcontainerTv digital platform.
The exhibition will be visible 24/7 in the Exhibitcontainer section, which is dedicated to the Best of International Festivals and independent curatorial projects.
The artists and Course Leaders participate in a live public moment (screening and talk) where the various international academy participants meet in an event divided into a screening and a talk. The event presents artists and works created in residence to the Naples art scene, involving institutions, curators and cultural planners.
SuperOtium, a residential space in Naples’s historic centre, promotes the event.
For info info@visualcontainer.tv
The project results from the process of transformation of the residence born in 2014 in Milan. Since then, the experience has continued by connecting different realities and academies, such as NABA, The Blank, Tilde, Via Farini, Non-Riservato and AUB university with which we launched VVV-Residency in 2020 as a digital evolution of the project.
VisualcontainerTv International Videoart web channel, curated by Alessandra Arnò, has been presenting videoart projects and festivals under the care of curators and festival directors, interviews, and monograph programs from all over the world since 2009. It’s a big renowned cultural project made for videoart lovers, students, curators, and all audiences, a place to find the best videoart selection for free and cultural purposes. The project aims to spread the fresh and latest research in the videoart scenario under the care of visualcontainer and many other worldwide partners into an overall view.
Vegapunk is an artist-run space&time for sharing artistic practices. It is an extension of Simona Da Pozzo’s artistic practice into the domain of curating driven by impromptu curiosities. The focus is on artistic practice as both an intellectual and physical process guided by dialogue (between people, formats, and disciplines). Vegapunk tends to build collaborations with artists whose discourse stretches beyond the artistic frame to include research entangled with the world, also in a social and political sense. The attention to the relationship between space and time, both in a physical and aesthetic sense, leads Vegapunk to favour time-based projects and to define Vegapunk as an artist-run-space-&-time. Vegapunk is a project born in the frame of www.ex-voto.org activities.