The New Normal Memorial
19 June - 30 November 2020
Creative Digital Art Commissions for artists and creative makers and thinkers
Projects
Covid 19 – Support for Harrow 2020
Usurp Art is pleased to announce that we have been able to create a support fund from a much welcomed donation received for Harrow from Malti and Anant Patel in New York.
“Momentary Masters Of A Fraction Of A Dot”
Jonas Gustafsson & Simon Underwood
Wednesday 1 August 2018
New 2x CD from Usurp artists Jonas Gustafsson & Simon Underwood. Recorded in a railway arch space in Deptford early 2017.
The Usurp Tapes Vol.1
“Nothing disappears completely...In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows...” Recordings of the Usurp Art Building. Limited edition cassette & download from Usurp's Conspirators of Pleasure featuring Poulomi Desai, Simon Underwood & Jonas Gustafson.
The Future in / of the Past – Leverhulme Trust
Poulomi Desai
“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.
Finnegans Wake Revisited
Thursday 4 May 2017
The latest Waywords and Meansigns project to be released 4th May 2017.
Conspirators of Pleasure one day residency at Usurp
Saturday 24 September 2016
In late summer 2016, USURP ARTS organised a pop-up residency at their gallery space in Harrow for the Conspirators of Pleasure.
Usurp Meets James Joyce
Tuesday 2 February 2016
An ambitious and forward looking project Commissioned by ‘Waywords and Meansigns’ to set Joyce's seminal and experimental novel to music.
Experimental Sounding Board
Thursday 1 August 2013
Usurp Art was resident at The Experimental Sounding Board Lab at the University of Brighton in July 2013. The Experimental Sounding Board is a live platform for performance and mark-making collaborations between sonic and visual modes of improvisation through the exploration of technology and gesture. The project sets out to bring people together within virtual and physical spaces from a range of creative research fields and technical abilities located in different geographical locations.
Usurp Open Space – regenerating an empty shop in Harrow town centre
Usurp is delighted to announce that it has opened another creative, public space in an empty shop in the centre of Harrow.
Peace Wish Tree
Sunday 1 November 2009
Students at the school wanted to explore the idea of peace and how they could create something that would become a sculptural piece that could be added to over time.
London Underground
Tuesday 3 March 2009
A simultaneous visual landscape of the London Underground based on Disinformation's London Underground audio project.
The Journey Travelled
18 June - 13 September 2008
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.
Hyperbolic Crotchet Reef
11 June 2008 - 30 September 2014
Large-scale, constantly mutating series of handmade crochets replicate the forms of natural coral and is an ongoing, growing project.
Priceless
Monday 7 August 2006
Exhibitions and sound installations on Exhibition road at The Serpentine Gallery, The V&A, The Natural History Museum, The Science Museum and The Royal Geographical Society.
Platform For Arts – Art on the Underground
Monday 5 June 2006
An exhibition of digital portraits by local people in Harrow Middlesex which Platform for Arts made into 72 posters displayed at North Harrow Station.
Red Threads
11 November - 12 December 2005
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.
Yakshini
Poulomi Desai
Sunday 31 July 2005
Poulomi will transform herself into a 21 st century bellowing Yakshini.
Behind Closed Doors
Poulomi Desai
Thursday 2 October 2003
A challenging series of lightboxes and installations produced by Asian women who have faced domestic violence, highlighting personal narratives and exploring wider issues of domestic violence and global/state sanctioned violence.
Terrorised Identities
Poulomi Desai, Simon Underwood
30 August - 9 September 2003
A polemical celebration of recent resistance to neo-liberal imperialism in a group exhibition addressing identity.
Branded
Poulomi Desai, Parm Kaur
1 March - 1 June 2001
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.
About Branded
1 March - 1 June 2001
Part of the outcome of a short residency created by Poulomi Desai with an award from the Year of the Artist Programme.
“Cacophony” Collaborative Sound Installation at The Mead Gallery 1999-2000
Poulomi Desai
1 December 1999 - 1 January 2001
A 16 channel acousmatic, experimental soundscape installation, with live randomly generating code, live feeds, acoustic illusions.