The Mosaic Rooms

Current Programme

The learning programme includes projects that respond to specific exhibitions and to an annual theme. This year the research theme explores the notion of home, inspired by the exhibition Home: Contemporary architectural interpretations of the home in the Arab world (21 June- 7 July 2012).

Taking the notion of home as a fundamental expression of identity, the programme aims to illuminate what home means to different people and reveal points of reciprocity between young people in London and in the Middle East.

Artists working across a range of creative disciplines will work with groups in London and in the Middle East on a series of projects.  Participants will be invited to reflect on their notion of home and find expression for their ideas through various artistic media. Investigating real and imagined spaces, personal, cultural and universal narratives, memories, boundaries, home as a place of refuge, as everyday ritual, embodied in food, objects, sounds and landscapes…

The programme will culminate in a public exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms, 13-21 September 2013, in which resulting works from the variety of projects will be showcased.

For further information on the learning programme and specific projects, please contact education@mosaicrooms.org

CURRENT PROJECTS

Home – a project with young people in the RBKC, 4-10 July 2013
In response to the annual research theme, young people in the borough will be invited to discuss what home means to them and what it means to feel ‘at home’ in oneself and in society. Working with artist duo kennardphillipps, they will create photo-montage artworks to express their ideas on home using collage, scanning, photoshop and printing techniques.

This project will be run in collaboration with: Making Communities Work and Grow, Chelsea Youth Club, Earl’s Court Youth Club, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Youth Arts Programme.

Domesticity and memories of home – in collaboration with Chelsea College of Art: Spring-Summer 2013
Students on the FDA Foundation Degree in Interior Design course have been exploring the notion of home by collaborating with a member of their family to uncover memories of domestic practice. Following their research, students have designed furniture and artifacts that express characteristics of home and tap into cultural understandings of domesticity. Led by Fernando Rihl and Reem Charif.

Capturing oral histories from the Yemeni community in London: 2-3 March 2013
To accompany the Last of the Dictionary Men exhibition, BAFTA nominated filmmaker Tina Gharavi led a weekend workshop for members of the Yemeni community in London. Participants were invited to share their own personal, family and collective stories and learnt to interview and film one another. The oral histories captured during the weekend were edited into a new short video work by Bridge + Tunnel, commissioned by The Mosaic Rooms. The video was screened during the latter weeks of the Last of the Dictionary Men exhibition, adding stories from the Yemeni community in London to the voices from South Shields.