projects: Go Make! residency


Go Make! Residency: "Experiment in 12 Parts"

Parts 1-10:
(WEA Clovelly Centre)

Parts 11-12:
(Youth Offending Team)

Exhibition
(Experiment in 12 Parts)

In November 2007, Dixon was awarded the annual Go Make! bursary. That years brief involved a response to a quote by the writer Ossie Stuart, who puts forward the suggestion that "...there is a temptation to represent the experience of disabled people within ethnic minority communities as a double opression."

During his 10-week residency, Dixon worked in collaboration with the WEA learners at the Southampton's Clovelly Community Centre. Through film, drawing, photography and installation they explored experiences of marginalization, as well as attitudes and the frustrations that result from discriminatory practices.

The residency started at the end of January 2008, with its results being exhibited in the John Hansard Gallery’s education space in May. The final outcome was envisaged to be a multi-facetted exhibition showing all projects, and allowing the shared discourses to overlap, and build upon each other.

This residency was the subject of the 'Experiment in 12 Parts' lecture given at the 2005 Art and Mind Festival in Winchester.

The Go Make! Community Centre Residency is a collaboration between Dada-South, John Hansard Gallery, WEA Clovelly Centre, Graham Road Residents Association and Southampton City Council. This residency is part of the Dada-South Go Make! Programme to support Deaf and disabled Artists to make and show new work. The residency is supported by Arts Council South-East and Awards for All.

Dada-South is the Disability Arts Development Agency for the South-East. Dada-South’s vision is to develop a thriving Disability and Deaf Arts sector within the region with a profile and reputation for excellence and innovation through investment in disabled and deaf artists.

WEA Clovelly Community Centre is the home of the Worker’s Educational Association for Southampton. Together with its students the Centre works to widen participation, preserve heritage and develop the local community.