Future Knowledge
20 May - 25 Jun 2017
Creative Conversation – ‘She Who Writes Herstory Rewrites History’: Part 2 (3 June 2017), Future Knowledge © Modern Art Oxford. Photo: Ellie Nixon
Future Knowledge Installation Image © Modern Art Oxford. Photo: Stu Allsopp
Playback in association with Random Acts, Future Knowledge installation image © Modern Art Oxford. Photo: Stu Allsopp
Daisy Cauty, Martha Canning and Harry Cauty, One Diving, One Falling, from Playback
In Conversation: Kazem Hakimi & James Attlee (1 June 2017), Future Knowledge © Modern Art Oxford. Photo: Andree Latham
Gustav Metzger, MASS MEDIA: Today and Yesterday, 1972/2017. © The Estate of Gustav Metzger.
Future Knowledge Preview Party (19th May 2017) © Modern Art Oxford. Photo: Stu Allsopp
FUTURE KNOWLEDGE
20 May - 25 June 2017
Future Knowledge uses the gallery as a public studio to bring the future creatively into being through art, design and events. This unconventional exhibition invites your participation; it asks that you come with an open mind to spark the imagination for future city life.
Future Knowledge offers new perspectives on Oxford – a city of learning – as an urban site that we can learn from. Future Knowledge combines artistic visual research with creative methods from design, ecology and systems thinking. In Oxford, the pressures on housing and widening communities lead to wildly different experiences of city life. These diverse viewpoints are explored through conversation, images and events, to ask how we can imagine alternative future possibilities for city life.
Future Knowledge generates content over time and is a response to key questions for art in this era of social and environmental change: Can thinking and talking about visual culture make us better at understanding different perspectives? Can images and events help us to understand the world better, as well as our place within in it? Can artistic and interdisciplinary research reveal seeds of alternative futures?
“The future can’t be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being... We can’t surge forward with certainty into a world of no surprises, but we can expect surprises and learn from them...” – Donnella Meadows, environmental scientist
Future Knowledge also hosts Playback, a nationally touring exhibition that brings together over 150 short films made by young artist filmmakers. The exhibition, situated in the Piper Gallery from 20 May to 4 June, is made up of individual touchscreens – choose what to watch from drama, comedy, dance, and spoken word to discover the filmmakers of tomorrow.
Playback Touring Exhibition in association with Random Acts is funded by Arts Council England and is a joint initiative with Channel 4.
Contributors to Future Knowledge include:
Rachel Barbaresi, David Batchelor, Environmental Change Institute, Buckminster Fuller/Foster + Partners, Kazem Hakimi, Sam Herklots/Film Oxford, Ben Highmore, Young Knives, Amelia Ideh, Lucy Kimbell, Gustav Metzger, Andy Owen, Playback in association with Random Acts
20 May - 25 June 2017
Future Knowledge uses the gallery as a public studio to bring the future creatively into being through art, design and events. This unconventional exhibition invites your participation; it asks that you come with an open mind to spark the imagination for future city life.
Future Knowledge offers new perspectives on Oxford – a city of learning – as an urban site that we can learn from. Future Knowledge combines artistic visual research with creative methods from design, ecology and systems thinking. In Oxford, the pressures on housing and widening communities lead to wildly different experiences of city life. These diverse viewpoints are explored through conversation, images and events, to ask how we can imagine alternative future possibilities for city life.
Future Knowledge generates content over time and is a response to key questions for art in this era of social and environmental change: Can thinking and talking about visual culture make us better at understanding different perspectives? Can images and events help us to understand the world better, as well as our place within in it? Can artistic and interdisciplinary research reveal seeds of alternative futures?
“The future can’t be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being... We can’t surge forward with certainty into a world of no surprises, but we can expect surprises and learn from them...” – Donnella Meadows, environmental scientist
Future Knowledge also hosts Playback, a nationally touring exhibition that brings together over 150 short films made by young artist filmmakers. The exhibition, situated in the Piper Gallery from 20 May to 4 June, is made up of individual touchscreens – choose what to watch from drama, comedy, dance, and spoken word to discover the filmmakers of tomorrow.
Playback Touring Exhibition in association with Random Acts is funded by Arts Council England and is a joint initiative with Channel 4.
Contributors to Future Knowledge include:
Rachel Barbaresi, David Batchelor, Environmental Change Institute, Buckminster Fuller/Foster + Partners, Kazem Hakimi, Sam Herklots/Film Oxford, Ben Highmore, Young Knives, Amelia Ideh, Lucy Kimbell, Gustav Metzger, Andy Owen, Playback in association with Random Acts