The Inner Space Exploration Unit is a collaborative art organisation that charts external and internal landscapes as well as the territories that lie somewhere in between.

The Project.

The Inner Space Exploration Unit (ISEU) was convened in May 2020 during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Judith Noble instigated an online conversation between a group of practitioners working across a range of media: moving image, sound, photography, painting and text. Noble, along with Dominic Shepherd, Evie Salmon, Terence Maughan, Ethan Pennell and James Riley discussed how the experience of lockdown was affecting their inner worlds; how had this unprecedented period of social introversion influenced their conceptualisation of an imaginal landscape?

The group discovered overlapping interests in regional television, spectral cultures, edgelands and other-worlds. Their methodologies and creative endeavours also began to overlap leading to shared, yet distant sequential-experiential practices, the mapping of shared imaginal landscapes and gradually, via correspondence, tele-technological collaboration, creative remote viewing and other forms of strategic dissonance, their inner realms generated an uncanny common ground. As work continued and the landscape developed, the group chose to conduct their activities under a collective label: the Inner Space Exploration Unit (ISEU). That the acronym ISEU became, phonetically is you’ was an additional point of significance not lost on those involved.