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As part of Modern Art Oxford’s new internship programme with Oxford Brookes University, Cabanca Lea joined our Programme Team for 4 weeks in May and June, helping in the run up to the opening of Claudette Johnson’s I Came to Dance. Below she reflects on her time at the gallery and her thoughts about the exhibition.… Continue reading Taking up Space: Reflections on Claudette Johnson’s I Came to Dance

Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani works day-to-day as the director of Oxford’s Young Women’s Music Project (YWMP), an educational charity that provides free workshops for women aged 14-21. Here she reflects on her relationship with Kate Garrett, mentor, friend and founder of YWMP, ahead of Saturday’s event at Modern Art Oxford, She’s a Bird Now,… Continue reading She’s a Bird Now: Remembering Kate Garrett

Artist-filmmaker Beverley Bennett is looking for 8 participants to take part in her ongoing research project Simon Says/Dadda, which is working towards the production of a new artist film of the same name. The participants will take part in a weekend of workshops on 3-4 August with Beverley, who invites women of colour to share… Continue reading Open Call: Simon Says/Dadda by Beverley Bennett

Inspired by Akram Zaatari’s exhibition The Script, Activating our Archives is a group project led by artist Sunil Shah which uses photography and curation to bring together a community of people from across Oxford to build an online archive of images that reflect on and explore their own lives. This video below displays a selection… Continue reading Fragments from a Shared Archive

Earlier this year, Tony Lorenzo responded to our participant call out to join Activating our Archives, Modern Art Oxford’s collective digital archiving project which has evolved alongside the exhibition, Akram Zaatari: The Script. In this photo essay, Tony reflects on his experience of taking part in the project. When I was a child I was asked what… Continue reading Catching Memories: Reflecting on Activating our Archives

Tom Milnes worked with Modern Art Oxford on Activating our Archives, a project that culminated with an event he co-curated with the Activating our Archives project lead Sunil Shah. This Image is No Longer Available took place on April 27 and was a celebration of both the project and the ways that artists and art galleries work… Continue reading Tom Milnes interviews Bob Bicknell-Knight

Sunil Shah is the Lead Artist on Activating our Archives, a group project which uses photography and curation to bring together a community of people from across Oxford to build an online archive of images that reflect on and explore their own lives. The project comes to an end this weekend with an all-day event at… Continue reading Everyday Archives and Everyday Art

Between Anywhere and Nowhere presents the work of three female performance artists who explore their connections to the Middle East.

In our latest update on City as Studio: Moving Image, lead artist Kate Mahony tells us how the students have been experimenting with DIY filmmaking techniques to create their own moving unique moving image works.  Throughout City as Studio: Moving Image I was determined to help the students create films using equipment that was readily… Continue reading Chaos in the Classroom: Performing DIY Filmmaking in Schools

Through his compelling and deeply researched practice, Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari explores the manner in which we choose to present ourselves both on, and offline, from YouTube videos to photographic archives. His work touches on complex and timely themes including contemporary image production, cultural activism and archival studies. Drawn together by our curators, this reading list delves… Continue reading Reading List – Akram Zaatari: The Script