Movements for Staying Alive

Modern Art Oxford announced its summer 2025 exhibition, a group show exploring movement as a means to learn, connect and foster a sense of community. Featuring three new site-specific commissions from Jane Castree, Estampa and Leap Then Look, as well as works by VALIE EXPORT, Ana Mendieta, Harold Offeh, Yvonne Rainer, amongst others, Movements for Staying Alive foregrounds and celebrates the vital movements of life.

Modern Art Oxford has invited artists and collectives to create touchable, participatory artworks which allow audiences to create their own experience of being in the space. Together they nurture an environment that engages audiences in a way that does not privilege sight over all other senses, and prioritises the bodily experience of a space, ideas and artworks.

Movements for Staying Alive brings together new commissions, restaged works, Modern Art Oxford’s archive, workshops and a programme of events to explore embodied ways of knowing and experiencing the world. The exhibition is an invitation to learn and unlearn collectively through sculpture, installation, sound, film and participatory work that inspires movements, making visitors active participants in the co-production of a shared experience.

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Image: Yvonne Rainer, Hand Movie, 1966. Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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