Workshops are targeted specifically at new mothers & people who identify as mothers or who are in the primary position of care, and their children. Workshops are being delivered in collaboration with Khaya Job, founder of the creative platform and magazine ‘Femme Fatale Gals’, musician and the youngest board member of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature.
You can get involved by emailing info@otoka.org or by booking online through Near Now, Broadway’s studio for arts, design and innovation, at https://nearnow.org.uk/events/otoka-takeover-workshop alternatively you can follow @otokapresents on Instagram.
* There will be buggy storage, hot drinks, snacks and a warm safe space to rest in a moment of reflection.
OTOKAs Episode 2 sees Broadway Gallery being used as an open studio by Candice Jacobs. Jacobs will be developing a new multimedia installation that explores the language & form of crystalline structures, fluidity, care, motherhood, the climate crisis, economics & the internet.
As an artist and a new mother, Jacobs is interested in exploring how our sense of self is affected by systems that exist outside of our control; what things we might do to take back control of who we are; what we might do to try to escape from them, and how these things are connected to the idea of “liquid modernity” - the constant mobility and change of relationships, identities, and global economics within contemporary society.
During a series of workshops with women's groups from around the city of Nottingham, we will set affirmations and let go of our anxieties through meditation exercises that place our thoughts directly into the sculpture so that it can carry the burden of our shared realities and swallow the stress of our lives, even if it's for a split second in time.
Workshops are being delivered in collaboration with Khaya Job, founder of the zine ‘Femme Fatale Gals’, musician and the youngest board member of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature.
The final experience/exhibition will launch on 9th March.
You can get involved by emailing info@otoka.org or by booking online through Near Now, Broadway’s studio for arts, design and innovation, at https://nearnow.org.uk/events/otoka-takeover-workshop- alternatively you can follow @otokapresents on Instagram.
Jacobs explores a world that exists as a mode of interrogation, drawing attention to aspects of reality that require further review and consideration, seizing and documenting behaviours that participate in spatial disturbances.
Her works involve the manipulation of symbols (which are also things) and people (who are also symbolic), archetypes that supply a vocabulary for a process of events and private epiphanies which act as a platform for social and self-reflection.
She’s interested in the relationship between spiritual capitalism and ethics under neoliberalism; the idiosyncratic relationship that these behaviours have with the development of technology; their connection to post‐truth conspiracies and belief; their associations with luxury and privilege that exploit and manipulate the environment and the communities from which their elements originated; and their relationship to identity politics.
Jacobs creates both on and offline works that combine digital technologies with Amethyst crystals made from discarded tax returns; pyramid chill out zones made from UV steel and dry ice; 3d printed sculptures of gold plated Fortuna cigarettes; symbolic neon light sculptures and white quartz sand fire pits; and Rorschach paintings made from discarded make up.
She was nominated for the Jarman Award in 2022 and her works have been shown in exhibitions, art fairs & institutions across the globe including the the 56th Venice Biennale; FACT Liverpool; Wysing Arts Centre; Nottingham Contemporary; Camden Arts Centre; Pane Project & Like A Little Disaster for Manifesta, France; Artnight 2020, London; VITRINE; Seventeen Gallery; Focal Point Gallery; Auto Italia South East; DKUK; Five Years; Project Number; Cactus; Studio Voltaire; Near Now; The Material Art Fair Mexico; Manchester Contemporary; The Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology Bangalore; The Eternal Internet Brother & Sisterhood Sri Lanka & Documenta 14; Standpoint Futures; The Arts Foundation; Emergency 6; Outpost; Vice Creative 30; Future 50 and The Celeste Art Prize.
You are invited to help us create a large scale crystal sculpture made of all the recycled paper we can muster that is connected to the economy… dig out your bills, tax returns, bank statements, receipts, invoices, outstanding payments and bring them in!
Throughout the day, as people come & go, we will come together as a group to share thoughts on how our experience of “m-otherhood” could be seen as a form of “liquid modernity” - a metaphor written by Zygmunt Bauman that describes the condition of constant mobility and change that he sees in relationships, identities, and global economics within contemporary society.
During the workshops, we will set affirmations and let go of our anxieties through meditation exercises that place our thoughts directly into the sculpture so that it can carry the burden of our shared realities and swallow the stress of our lives, even if it's for a split second in time.
Our conversations will be re-written & transformed into a poetic form of text that will sit as the script to a collection of VR films that will be integrated into the sculpture.
The final experience/exhibition will launch on 9th March, where the audience will clamber through the crystalline structure heavy with the burden of our worries, but shining with hints of neon into glistening pools of screens that move around to track & trace the bodies & words that flow through dying exotic waters.
Workshops are targeted specifically at new mothers & people who identify as mothers or who are in the primary position of care, and their children, and are being delivered in collaboration with Khaya Job, founder of the zine ‘Femme Fatale Gals’, musician and the youngest board member of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature.
You can get involved by emailing info@otoka.org or by booking online through Near Now, Broadway’s studio for arts, design and innovation, at https://nearnow.org.uk/events/otoka-takeover-workshop - alternatively you can follow @otokapresents on Instagram.
* There will be buggy storage, hot drinks, snacks and a warm safe space to rest in a moment of reflection.
Candice Jacobs: New screen-printed & neon works
