Facilitated by Artist and Educator Exodus Crooks this online workshop will invite participants to explore their senses in a time where we are encouraged to be disconnected from them.
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Facilitated by Artist and Educator Exodus Crooks this online workshop will invite participants to explore their senses in a time where we are encouraged to be disconnected from them.
This event has been organised by Eastside Projects for current members of the Kaleidoscope Network only.
Exploring embodiment through all five senses we will embrace the challenges of making and collaborating whilst online as participants find and make art with and beyond the screen using the mundane and domestic materials and objects around them.
Exodus is a (British-Jamaican) multidisciplinary artist and educator, interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality.
Informed by a fractious domestic life, their work can best be understood as a diaristic mirror. (a diaristic mirror can be defined as the pauses in life that provoke introspection, as confessions spoken aloud, found in Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis’ book, Private insurrections to loosen public ground.)
Their practice exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. They have trained, and untrained, to be a teacher and now prioritise using art as a tool to have hard conversations softly.
Image: Courtesy of the artist, a still image from We need 2 talk (2024), co-commissioned by Ikon Gallery and The Exchange.
Kaleidoscope Network is a collaboration between Spike Island (Bristol), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle), Bloc Projects (Sheffield) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham). NewBridge Members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.
Wednesday 12 February 2025
6–8pm
Free - Kaleidoscope Network members only
This event is accessed remotely online.