EMPRes X Modern Art Oxford Lates
Thursday 1st MAY 2025
CALL FOR WORKS
Oxford staff and students are invited to submit works for an evening of experimental and electronic music, sound art, video, dance, and performance hosted in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford.
Musicians, artists, and performers are encouraged to submit works that broadly engage in the fields of experimental composition, electronics, improvisation, movement, audio-visual art, and interactive media.
The event will be held at Modern Art Oxford on the night of 1st May 2025, and will host installations, workshops, and performances over the course of the evening across various locations within the museum space.
Contributors are invited to respond to the MAO retrospective exhibition of Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself which uncovers female stories and explores the social impact of art through the life and work of artist-activist Barbara Steveni (1 March – 8 June 2025). https://barbarasteveni.org
If you are interested in contributing or finding out more, please email:
empres@music.ox.ac.uk
Final submissions or enquiry for inclusion are due by Friday 28th March 2025.
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Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself
Modern Art Oxford, 1 March - 8 June
Modern Art Oxford presents I Find Myself, the first retrospective exhibition of pioneering and influential artist-activist Barbara Steveni (1928-2020). Representing her pivotal role as an artist initiator, energetic organiser, negotiator and pioneer of social practice, it combines examples of her conversational and collaborative practice, early assemblage pieces and materials from the Artist Placement Group, alongside new commissions from Anne Bean, Eloise Hawser and Laure Prouvost.
Organised thematically, the exhibition brings together a broad body of Steveni’s work including previously unexhibited sculptural assemblages, found objects collected on industrial sites and along the Thames Path throughout her lifetime, slide lectures, sketchbooks, recorded interviews, video footage, collaborative pieces and restaged performances. These will be on display alongside elements of Steveni’s personal archive of photographs, writing and papers which formed the basis of her significant work I Am An Archive (2002-2015).
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The Faculty of Music’s Electronic Music Practice RESearch group (EMPRes)aims to promote and advance research and public dissemination in Electronic Music Practice. It does so by working with musicians, composers, producers, researchers and academics from a wide range of disciplines interested in experimental and electronic music.
https://empres.music.ox.ac.uk/
Modern Art Oxford is one of the UK’s most exciting and influential contemporary arts organizations. Founded in 1965, it is the only public institution dedicated to contemporary visual arts in Oxford and is free and open to all. Shaped by a longstanding commitment to education and inclusion, Modern Art Oxford is renowned for its bold, progressive andinternational artistic programme that promotes culturally diverse viewpoints from around the world.
https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/
