With this post we are excited to welcome filmmaker Veronica McKenzie, founder of the Haringey Vanguard Project. This important National Lottery Heritage funded history project celebrates the work, stories and influence of Haringey-based community activists between the 1970s – 1990s, whose historical contributions to the LGBTQ+ and anti-racist movements were felt well beyond the borough.… Continue reading Archives and Activism – The Haringey Vanguard by Veronica McKenzie
Category: The Archive
Artist Takeover by Katya Mora – Activating our Archives
In April 2020 Activating our Archives participant Katya took over the Modern Art Oxford Instagram feed for the day to share part of her ongoing contemplative diary series. Her video work responds to the idea of information intake in the time of Coronavirus. She asks questions such as: Where does my body store the virtual… Continue reading Artist Takeover by Katya Mora – Activating our Archives
Participant call out – Activating our Archives: Community Dialogues
Modern Art Oxford and Fusion Arts are currently seeking participants for Activating our Archives: Community Dialogues, a project starting in spring 2020 which explores personal and collective identities through dialogue, photography and live archiving. Activating our Archives: Community Dialogues is led by artist and curator Sunil Shah and offers participants a series of free workshops based at Fusion Arts, East Oxford. The project welcomes adults with interests in storytelling, photography and social… Continue reading Participant call out – Activating our Archives: Community Dialogues
Participant call out: Activating our Archives
Modern Art Oxford seeks participants for a project about how we represent ourselves and our communities online. Activating our Archives offers a set of free workshops with Oxford-based artist and curator Sunil Shah and will use photographs, documents, found materials and objects to revisit history through artistic expression. The project will include sharing images via social media… Continue reading Participant call out: Activating our Archives
Re-Visit: KALEIDOSCOPE Live: The Archive Box – Urr
Composer and performer Neil Luck uses sound, music, text and gesture in this performance, taking inspiration from Modern Art Oxford’s archive. Urr is an allegorical narrative irresponsibly extrapolated from a series of correspondences between Modern Art Oxford and the artist Saburo Murakami during the 1986 show Reconstructions. Articulated through text, sound and gesture, Murakami’s ‘Box’… Continue reading Re-Visit: KALEIDOSCOPE Live: The Archive Box – Urr
The Archive: Jake and Dinos Chapman – The Rape of Creativity (2003)
Jake and Dinos Chapman – The Rape of Creativity took place at Modern Art Oxford between 12 April and 8 June 2003. The Rape of Creativity introduced audiences to a number of works by the Chapman Brothers, many of which were shown for the first time in the UK. The catalogue of the exhibition included… Continue reading The Archive: Jake and Dinos Chapman – The Rape of Creativity (2003)
The Archive: Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture & The Prints of Louise Bourgeois (1995)
Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture and The Prints of Louise Bourgeois bothtook place at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford over two floors between 15 October and 31 December 1995. This major programme of two solo exhibitions offered the first opportunity in Britain to survey the sculpture, drawings and prints of Louise Bourgeois. The exhibition drew together the… Continue reading The Archive: Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture & The Prints of Louise Bourgeois (1995)
The Archive: New Art From China, part 1: Silent Energy
In this latest Channel post, Professor Craig Clunas from the History of Art department, University of Oxford, reflects on the impact of the innovative exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, ‘Silent Energy’ held at Modern Art Oxford in 1993. To refresh my memory of this ground-breaking show, the first time ‘contemporary Chinese art’ was shown in… Continue reading The Archive: New Art From China, part 1: Silent Energy
The Archive: Signs of the Times – A Decade of Video, Films & Slide-Tape Installation in Britain 1980-1990 (1990)
Signs of the Times: A Decade of Video, Films and Slide-tape Installation in Britain 1980-1990, took place at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford in two parts between 7 October and 9 December 1990. Signs of the Times was the first major exhibition of British video, slide-tape and film installation to examine the development of… Continue reading The Archive: Signs of the Times – A Decade of Video, Films & Slide-Tape Installation in Britain 1980-1990 (1990)
The Archive: Helen Chadwick – Viral Landscapes (1989-1990)
Helen Chadwick Viral Landscapes was held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, from 5 November 1989 to 7 January 1990. Shown as a panoramic frieze measuring four feet in height and 50 feet in length, Viral Landscapes was a brand new series of photographic wall pieces created by British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996).… Continue reading The Archive: Helen Chadwick – Viral Landscapes (1989-1990)