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

(Re)telling history: exploring the documenting and (re)telling of history through the archive: 6 – 20 April 2013

To accompany the exhibition 40 Days  we are inviting participants to take part in a project with Dor Guez to explore their own personal and family histories through archival materials and photography. Working with their own images, participants will consider how we document, (re)tell and remember our past through the images we take, the choices we make at the moment of pressing the shutter, and the decisions we make around editing and archiving.

The project is open to anyone interested in the process of archiving their own history.  Participants are especially welcomed from Palestinian community in London, particularly Christian Palestinians who will have the opportunity to share their images and testimonies in the Christian Palestinian Archive – a growing collection of archival documents from the first half of the 20th century, documenting the personal and collective histories of the Christian Palestinian community worldwide.

Exact schedule to be determined with individuals, working either individually or in pairs/small groups. Places are limited.  For further information on the project and to register you interest in participating please contact: education@mosaicrooms.org

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 will lead a weekend workshop for members of the Yemeni community in London. Participants will be invited to share their own personal, family and collective stories and will learn to interview and film one another. The oral histories captured during the weekend will be edited into a new short video work by Bridge + Tunnel, commissioned by The Mosaic Rooms. The video will be 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.

Domesticity and memories of home – collaboration with Chelsea College of Art: Spring-Summer 2013

Students on the FDA Foundation Degree in Interior Design course are invited to explore the notion of home by working with a member of their family to uncover memories and practices of home. Following their research, students will design furniture and artifacts that express characteristics of home and tap into cultural understandings of domesticity.