Zhanna Bobrakova Room 1540,听Performative Portrait inspired by A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena聽Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton 1569 British School 16th Century, at Tate Britain聽2014
Danish students at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, with artist Albert Potrony, sharing their art聽and ideas over Skype with their peers in the UK working at Tate Britain with artist Michelle Williams Gamaker聽on Figure Ground Time聽Acts
Tate Yourself self-portrait by Oliver from St Pauls Catholic College, based on paintings by William Dobson,听Marmaduke Cradock,Marcus Gheeraerts II, John Martin, Johan Zoffany and Sir Peter Lely. The idea behind the聽Tate Yourself activity devised by artist Luca M. Damiani was to make historic Old Master collections relevant聽for young people and families聽today
In April 2015 Photographer Marysa Dowling worked with artists, teachers and students in Mexico and UK to聽create photographic portraits to conceal and reveal something about themselves, constructing playful聽portraits using the body, gesture, space, light and objects that have a cultural or local relevance to the聽environment. Left: Marysa Dowling,听Conceal, Mexico #2, 2015. Right:聽Conceal/Reveal聽portrait by participants in San Cristobal de Las Casas,听Mexico
漏 Marysa聽Dowling
Local fishermen with their favourite fish in Kochi photographed by Shubham Sharma, Samika Daga, Harsha聽Kejriwal, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India 2015. The series of photographs was taken as聽part of the Belonging, Co-existence, Community project led by artist Albert聽Potrony
Snehal Kanodia, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology Framing the Unseen 2014, Kochi-Muziris聽Biennale. In her photographs Kanodia responded to the Performative Portraits generator devised by CSM聽graduate Zhanna聽Bobrakova
BP Art Exchange was a four year learning programme about international collaboration and聽exchange. Between September 2013 and March 2017, it connected 425 schools, 105 cultural聽organisations and galleries and 339 artists worldwide through an offline workshop programme聽delivered by practising artists and an online community platform. The project provided a聽sustainable digital platform, learning resources and programme which deepened knowledge,听understanding and enjoyment of聽Art.
The underpinning research question for the BP Art Exchange programme was rooted in聽emergence theory which proposes that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.聽Emergence demonstrates that a small number of rules, laws or limitations can generate聽incredibly complex systems. In the BP Art Exchange programme, a networked and connected聽community has arisen out of the simple instructions that its members respond to, which both聽generate a multitude of diverse and richly creative responses and forge聽meaningful聽interconnections.
Members of the BP Art Exchange community would initiate or join groups to share and critically聽discuss artwork, opportunities and ideas that interested them and were meaningful to their聽own聽lives.
Thematic activity packs created with artists were published online at regular intervals聽throughout the year and were tested and explored through an offline collaborative workshop聽programme. Some of our key partners included MARCO (Museum of Contemporary Art in聽Monterrey, Mexico); The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humleb忙k, Garage Museum of聽Contemporary Art in Moscow, Kochi Biennale Foundation; Srishti Institute of Art Design and聽Technology in Bangalore and UAL: Central Saint Martins in London and Institut Fran莽ais聽du聽Royaume-Uni.聽
Nationally, we worked with a network of over 200 schools across the country through a聽series of workshop designed in collaboration with art educators Anna Kontopoulou and Jack聽Cornell. The roster of visual artists who have closely collaborated with us developing our聽programme of participatory projects both in UK and internationally includes ,听, , ,and .