Move. Participate. Connect.
Movements for Staying Alive brings together new commissions alongside recent and historical works, which value the importance of movement as a means to learn, connect, and foster a sense of community. Rather than focusing solely on visual experience, this exhibition encourages you to engage with the artworks through your body. Together, the artworks create an environment that prioritises the bodily experience of space, ideas, and artwork, rather than privileging sight over other senses.
The artworks on display serve as a reminder that all bodies play an active role in creating, sharing, and understanding knowledge, as well as the potential that exists when we consider our bodies and environments as constantly in motion. Highlighting the choreography of everyday life, these galleries are a space for collective creation, shared knowledge, and celebratory movement, exploring both what keeps us alive and what makes us feel alive.
Discover Estampa’s immersive installation, using AI and data visualisation tools to visualise the Modern Art Oxford archive.
This commission is on display from 7 June – 1 September.
Jane Castree’s new commission invites audiences to consider how physical movements can shift perspectives. Sculptural objects enable visitors to move over, under, through and around them, repositioning their viewpoint and other bodies in the space.
Leap Then Look takes over an entire gallery space with an interactive installation encouraging visitors of all ages to explore the gallery with their bodies. Artworks of different weights, textures, shapes, and sizes, are able to be touched, worn, connected and moved, inspiring curiosity and exploration in a space full of possibility.
Loans including Harold Offeh’s Joy Inside Our Tears (2021) as well as work by Ana Mendieta, Yvonne Rainer and VALIE EXPORT consider the relationships between people, bodies and environments in both natural and urban spaces.
Baum & Leahy invite you to connect with yourself on a cellular level with a space to slow down and connect with your body and breathing.