Thanks to everyone at the Toffee Factory and The Late Shows for hosting The Big M and the launch of our new programme, On the Precipice. It went down a storm (literally on Saturday morning!!) and we had over 2500 people through The Big M over Friday and Saturday night. 

We're now planning for our next gig at Saltwell Park, Gateshead on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th June, check here for our other tour dates happening all over the North East throughout the summer.

Get a taster of the brilliant work featured in the programme on each of the artist pages:

 Kelly Richardson (Canada/UK), Gordon Cheung (UK), Alexandra Crouwers (Belgium), Jenn E Norton (Canada), Jillian McDonald (Canada/USA), Emily Richardson (UK) and Brigitte Zieger (Germany/France).

Visualising the Future : Crafting Visualisations of the World to Come Workshop - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

We're hosting a workshops in our inflatable space - The Big M, in collaboration with Culture Lab (Newcastle University). Come and envision various futures with us at this free workshop on Thursday 23rd May outside The Toffee Factory.

Click here for more details.

Deborah Bower, Mat Fleming and Harriet Plewis (Bower Fleming Plewis) are northeast based artists, who are in residence with us for the rest of May. 

Bower Fleming Plewis will be spending their time researching and exploring empty and abandoned spaces in the Newcastle area with a view to employing these spaces as temporary ‘sets’ for their new collaborative film work.

Read more about their residency plans here.

On the Precipice is a stunning new programme of immersive film installations set to tour the North-East region through May - September 2013 in The Big M, our inflatable mobile exhibition venue.

It may be coming to a space near you! Check where its touring to here....

In development for next year is........

Toxicity is an international arts, science and technology collaboration between leading European and Canadian arts organisations, academic institutions, artists and researchers.

Toxicity is currently in development and is a collaboration between various organisations based across Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Macedonia and Croatia.

Have a read what its all about here....

Zuzana Hruskova and Marek Šulík's Homelands film created during the first year of our 'Homelands' project has just been released on DVD. To order a copy please email charlotte@isisarts.org.uk. 

Their film documents Roma families in the west-end of Newcastle recording emotional messages in the form of videos, photographs, handwritten letters, audio recordings being carefully delivered to their relatives back in Slovakia. Responses were then filmed and the process was repeated. The result is a beautiful commentary on the reasons for migration and the consequences to families and communities.

To watch a trailer and read more about Homelands, please click here.