current exhibition

intermission museum of art (ima) is proud to launch a new collaboration by flora parrott and lindiwe matshikiza on the theme of adaptation, featured through may 2021 as part of ima’s inaugural volume i series.

this experimental video is a progression of a collaborative project between writer, performer and director, lindiwe matshikiza (south africa), and visual artist, flora parrott (uk). their exchange has taken place entirely over long distance, via email, skype and whatsapp, and had a first public showing as part of ‘i’m in the bath on all fours’: a 3-phase visual art exhibition and interspersed series of talks, performances, workshops and screenings curated by well projects, margate, and parrott. in each phase of ‘i’m in the bath on all fours’ a pair of artists, artist groups or researchers were invited to collaborate and expand upon notions of the sub-aqueous, engaging with the nature of water, embodied experience and the deep dark in relation to community and commonality. in its current iteration, ‘i’m in the bath on all fours’ is part of sonia’s boyce’s ‘in the castle of my skin’, previously exhibited at eastside gallery, birmingham, and due to exhibit at middlesbrough institute of modern art (mima) in june 2021.

for ima, on ima, parrott and matshikiza have returned to a piece of their original source material, a youtube video taken at the aach spring in germany by one of the members of the cave diving club, stephan schild. returning to this video, this time with the audio developed by matshikiza, has been an opportunity to revisit the core themes of the project and to find new connections and rhythms with which to continue thinking.

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upcoming exhibitions
 

volume i
final exhibition

june 2021
t/here or t/here | jodi hays | ayanah moor

physical exhibition

intermission museum of art
@ stand4 gallery | brooklyn, new york, us

opening reception | 10 september, 7-9pm (eastern/us)
 

volume ii series

we will announce our 2022 volume ii series collaborators and themes on [removed] in mid-may 2021
 

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about ima

intermission museum of art (ima) was founded in 2020 by rose van mierlo and john ros, in response to the cultural, social, environmental, economic and political fissures that make themselves evermore present during times of crisis and put stress on accepted systems of operation. ima provides a space for critical thinkers to respond to these moments of friction by investigating them as meaningful sites of production, instigating dialogues which will culminate in a public archive.

ima’s name references the question of open space: the flipping movement of a hand searching through archives, gaps in the pavement, performance interludes, tv-commercials, coffee breaks and silent pauses; all moments of unpoliced disruption that are typically un-institutional. at its core, ima therefore proposes the museum as a site of uncertainty; a building without walls; a non-hierarchical collection of interdisciplinary narratives and voices; both a guest and a host; and an exercise in cross-pollination. it resists the architectural premise of power that underwrites the white cube, democratizing the exhibition in terms of access. instead, its architectural premise is that of lateral networks; its vision decentralized and participatory.