TUESDAY 28 MARCH

6.00PM – 8.00PM 

OPEN SCHOOL EAST – 39 Hawley Square, Margate CT9 1NZ

Join OSE alumnus and artist James Jordan Johnson for an artist talk in which he will be discussing his performance practice, cartography, routes, object coding as well as his recent research and experiences as a British Council fellow at the 59th International Venice Art Biennale in November 2022.

This event is limited to 25 spaces – booking is required – please book a FREE ticket here.

Open School East is a charity that provides free & accessible opportunities for adults, young people and children to participate in the arts. We ask those that can to help support this year’s programme, and future public programmes, through a suggested donation of £5 per event. Your support goes a long way!

If (for any reason) you’re unable to attend after booking – we ask that you cancel your ticket via Eventbrite and free up a space for another participant. If this event is fully booked and you would like to be placed on a waiting list, or if you have any other queries, please contact george@openschooleast.org 

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James Jordan Johnson is an artist-researcher (b.1997, London) based in Margate working within performance and sculpture. His practice is concerned with the relationship between Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Diasporic material culture and performative histories. Thinking about the role memory plays in the political matters of citizenship, legibility, land and myth-making, he tends to ground his work within site-specific or public spaces, using topographical mapping, material and object activation.

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OSE Public Programme 2022-23

This event is held as part of Open School East’s 2022-23 Associate-led Public Programme. This year’s Associate-led Public Programme responds to themes of social & ecological hybridity, as set out in the Associate’s first term curriculum entitled When The World Looks Back At You: about storytelling, ecology and the weird led by artist Saelia Aparicio. Through explorations of the voice, the body and sensitive connections with natural and man-made networks that unite the world around us, the Associate-led Public Programme looks to and explores creativity and collectivity in green spaces.

This year we’re excited to announce our partnership with Turner Contemporary, who are generously hosting part of the public programme.

Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries. Founded to celebrate JMW Turner’s connection to Margate in 2001, the David Chipperfield designed gallery opened in 2011. Turner Contemporarys work extends beyond showcasing world-class exhibitions, to driving the social and economic regeneration of Margate and East Kent and transforming lives in one of the most deprived areas of the UK. Since it opened, Turner Contemporary has welcomed over 3.8 million visits, put over £70million back into the Kent economy and connected with thousands of people from the local community through our world class programme. 

You can find more Public Programme events at: openschooleast.org/events