In 2018, world-renowned British installation artist and filmmaker, Sir Isaac Julien KBE RA, and his long-time creative collaborator, producer and international curator Mark Nash, started the Moving-Image Lab as part of their extensive research-led pedagogy. The Moving-Image Lab mirrors the Isaac Julien Studio, a highly successful and innovative artist’s studio research centre, and archive that Julien and Nash run in London.
Mark Nash’s Curating the Moving Image publication.
The Lab is a platform from which moving images, photographic works, exhibitions, and publications are produced, and it serves as a space for developing innovative pedagogy that prepares students for understanding and engaging with the diversity of human experience in cultural, historical, and social contexts, and for participation in crucial public conversations and social connectivity through contemporary art.
The aim of the Lab is to introduce students from diverse backgrounds to the critical, historical, and creative contexts necessary for them to participate in contemporary professional arts and humanities practices. Collaborating with Isaac Julien and Mark Nash, as well as with guest and affiliate faculty on research and artistic production, students will be working at the intersection of research and praxis.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will fund fellowships to support mentorship in production, curation, and research and publication activities. This grant also enables Isaac Julien and Mark Nash to implement a robust exhibition and curation and research program at a number of venues both domestically and internationally. The collaborative body of work exemplifies the Lab’s vision of the arts as global, socially impactful, and attuned to redressing inequality and injustice.
The Moving-Image Lab Fellows will focus on one of three areas: Production, Curation, and Research and Archiving. Fellowships will begin in Fall 2024 and conclude in Fall 2026. The Lab has also established strong partnerships with arts institutions, publishers, and exhibition sites, several of which will have a role in the project activities. De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Kramlich Collection in Napa and Isaac Julien Studio in London will serve as sites that will provide work experience for the Moving-Image Lab Fellows.
Collaborating partners who will assist with archiving and supporting curatorial work include UCSC McHenry Library archivists, NTU CCA Singapore, Goethe Institute in London. With coaching from mentors from the Delfina Foundation residency program and Art Monthly London, fellows will incubate their ideas and showcase them in publications for peers and the general public. Additional collaborating partners include Yale University Press and Thames and Hudson with whom the fellows will work on the upcoming publications with on Julien’s work Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement and Once Again… (Statues Never Die).
Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour, installation view, Tate Britain, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour, installation view, Tate Britain, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
Isaac Julien, Once Again… (Statues Never Die), installation view, Tate Britain, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
News
$1M grant to help prepare students for impactful careers in the arts
Banner image: Isaac Julien, Once Again… (Statues Never Die), installation view, Tate Britain, 2023. Courtesy the artist.