Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound

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New commissions during the Covid 19 pandemic for QTPOC artists and creative collectives.

Art, Creativity and Tech Festival in Metroland.

Usurp Art is pleased to announce that we have created a support fund during the Covid 19 pandemic.

An arts based and social agenda project to bring together older South Asian LGBTQ+ people in Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow to support each other and collectively build our futures.

New 2x CD from Usurp artists Jonas Gustafsson & Simon Underwood. Recorded in a railway arch space in Deptford early 2017.

“Nothing disappears completely...In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows...”

“The Future in / of the Past” by artist and musician, Poulomi Desai. A series of artworks / gifts created as part of a residency funded by the Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant at Heritage Quay, the archives of the University of Huddersfield 2016 - 2017.

The latest Waywords and Meansigns project to be released 4th May 2017.

Pop-up residency at the gallery space in Harrow for the Conspirators of Pleasure.

An ambitious and forward looking project Commissioned by ‘Waywords and Meansigns’ to set Joyce's seminal and experimental novel to music.

Usurp Art was resident at The Experimental Sounding Board Lab at the University of Brighton.

Usurp is delighted to announce that it has opened another creative, public space in an empty shop in the centre of Harrow.

Students explore the idea of peace and how they could create something that would become a sculptural piece that could be added to over time.

A simultaneous visual landscape of the London Underground based on Disinformation's London Underground audio project.

New video works of animations, installations, and projections, which were developed through a series of intimate interviews, workshops, and collaborative film-making over four months with individual girls and women, and groups in Islington.

A large-scale, constantly mutating series of handmade crochets replicate the forms of natural coral.

Exhibitions and sound installations at The Serpentine Gallery, The V&A, The Natural History Museum, The Science Museum and The Royal Geographical Society.

An exhibition of digital portraits by local people in Harrow for Art on the Underground.

Here in the outer suburbs of London, it is easy to collude with the notion that 'culture' is located in central London, or in the case of the visual arts, in East London.

An insightful photographic book by two very different photographers, Poulomi Desai and Parminder Sekhon.

A polemical celebration of recent resistance to neo-liberal imperialism in a group exhibition addressing identity.

This web project is part of the outcome of a residency created by Poulomi Desai with an award from the Year of the Artist Programme.

A 16 channel acousmatic, experimental soundscape installation, with live randomly generating code, live feeds, acoustic illusions.