Test Run
02 May - 08 Jun 2014
TEST RUN
2 May — 8 June 2014
34 artists | 18 performances | 6 talks | 15 workshops | 1 symposium | 35 Days
This is your chance to see behind the scenes in the artists' studio and get involved in the creative process. Test Run is a new, annual five week programme of performance, artists’ projects, work in progress and discussion previewing themes and ideas from the upcoming exhibitions programme at Modern Art Oxford.
This first edition of Test Run will focus on the act of making as a craft, way of thinking, industrial process and political engagement. It will investigate the interplay between production and consumption in society, in which the unskilled appetite for consumption continues to grow and makers with practical skills are increasingly fetishised.
In this knowledge based economy those controlling the access to knowledge; financial, practical or personal, are amongst the most powerful in society.
Test Run is a challenge to this hierarchy, offering free access to a variety of skills, knowledge and activities while questioning perceptions and ideas about production and consumption in society.
Unlike other exhibitions at the gallery, Test Run will offer visitors access to the creative process as projects develop and evolve live within the space. It reflects on the interrelation of production and consumption and the importance of making as a way of thinking about, understanding and shaping the world.
To find out more about individual events and workshops follow the links below:
The Print Studio 2 May - 8 June
Test Run Symposium: The Art of Making (Broadcast 10 May)
Performing Matter with John Reardon 17 - 31 May
Gesture Control - Jeremy Hutchinson 2 May - 8 June
Artists' Reading Room 2 May - 8 June
Natasha Kidd Painting Machine 2 May - 8 June
Biters: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy 15, 22 May, 5 June
Slow Glass: John Smith 2 May - 8 June
Ralphael Hefti From the series Lycopodium 2 May - 8 June
A Spectacles without an object Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet 27 May – 01 June
Learn to Sing: A Saturday Sacred Harp Choir 10, 17, 24, 31 May, 8 June
The thing in the middle: Rebecca Birch & Francesco Pedraglio 20 May, 8 June
The Gluts 25 May
2 May — 8 June 2014
34 artists | 18 performances | 6 talks | 15 workshops | 1 symposium | 35 Days
This is your chance to see behind the scenes in the artists' studio and get involved in the creative process. Test Run is a new, annual five week programme of performance, artists’ projects, work in progress and discussion previewing themes and ideas from the upcoming exhibitions programme at Modern Art Oxford.
This first edition of Test Run will focus on the act of making as a craft, way of thinking, industrial process and political engagement. It will investigate the interplay between production and consumption in society, in which the unskilled appetite for consumption continues to grow and makers with practical skills are increasingly fetishised.
In this knowledge based economy those controlling the access to knowledge; financial, practical or personal, are amongst the most powerful in society.
Test Run is a challenge to this hierarchy, offering free access to a variety of skills, knowledge and activities while questioning perceptions and ideas about production and consumption in society.
Unlike other exhibitions at the gallery, Test Run will offer visitors access to the creative process as projects develop and evolve live within the space. It reflects on the interrelation of production and consumption and the importance of making as a way of thinking about, understanding and shaping the world.
To find out more about individual events and workshops follow the links below:
The Print Studio 2 May - 8 June
Test Run Symposium: The Art of Making (Broadcast 10 May)
Performing Matter with John Reardon 17 - 31 May
Gesture Control - Jeremy Hutchinson 2 May - 8 June
Artists' Reading Room 2 May - 8 June
Natasha Kidd Painting Machine 2 May - 8 June
Biters: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy 15, 22 May, 5 June
Slow Glass: John Smith 2 May - 8 June
Ralphael Hefti From the series Lycopodium 2 May - 8 June
A Spectacles without an object Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet 27 May – 01 June
Learn to Sing: A Saturday Sacred Harp Choir 10, 17, 24, 31 May, 8 June
The thing in the middle: Rebecca Birch & Francesco Pedraglio 20 May, 8 June
The Gluts 25 May