ONLINE Sense isn't that common: An online workshop using the 5 senses

Facilitated by Artist and Educator Exodus Crooks this online workshop will invite participants to explore their senses in a time where we are encouraged to be disconnected from them.

Exploring embodiment through all five senses we will embrace the challenges of making and collaborating whilst online as participants find and make art with and beyond the screen using the mundane and domestic materials and objects around them.

About Exodus

Exodus is a (British-Jamaican) multidisciplinary artist and educator, interested in self-determination and how it is steered by religion and spirituality.

Informed by a fractious domestic life, their work can best be understood as a diaristic mirror. (a diaristic mirror can be defined as the pauses in life that provoke introspection, as confessions spoken aloud, found in Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis’ book, Private insurrections to loosen public ground.)

Their practice exists in the orbit of their educational role where they work to reimagine Western pedagogy. They have trained, and untrained, to be a teacher and now prioritise using art as a tool to have hard conversations softly.

Recent projects include Break Bread with Me: Part 2, Serpentine Galleries as part of the Inifinite Ecologies Marathon (2024); Epiphany (Temporaire), Ikon Gallery Birmingham (2024), commissioned by Ort Gallery and International Curators Forum (ICF); The Nature of Things, Castor Gallery, London (2024); Promise Me Tomorrow: Radical Art Education Practices and Processes, Stuart Hall Library, London, 2024; We need 2 tlk, Ikon Gallery & the University of Birmingham (2024); Miss Olga, to you and I, National Gallery, London (2024); Epiphany (Temporaire) Block 336, London, (2023); Promise me tomorrow, commissioned by Iniva. 2023; Seeking, QUAD Gallery, Derby, 2022. Find out more about Exodus HERE

This event has been organised by Eastside Projects for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Spike Island (Bristol), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle), Bloc Projects (Sheffield) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham). EOP Members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.

Image: Courtesy of the artist, a still image from We need 2 talk (2024), co-commissioned by Ikon Gallery and The Exchange.