Introducing the Culture Box Show
The Culture Box Show marks and celebrates the end of the Culture Box Research project! The Culture Box project responded to the impacts of the pandemic on care homes by providing regular postal and digital deliveries of creative and arts-based activities over 12 months. The boxes contained a diverse range of creative activities for residents and staff to complete. The study was lead by Professor Victoria Tischler, with Dr Hannah Zeilig and Dr Julian West as co-investigators. For more information about the project’s team, see this link.
The Culture Box Show is an end-of-project interactive exhibition that contains four interactive artist commissions. The research team worked with Culture&, an arts organisation, to produce the commissions for the Show. The commissions respond to the project and its findings. The Show was curated by Emma Barnard and Julian West who formed part of the selection panel for the artist commissions.
Boxes will be sent out to the care homes containing activities, prompts, materials and instructions. Some of the commissions will ask residents and staff to respond back to the artists, and they will create a piece of work based on these responses. Other artists have already created pieces of work which the residents will respond to through different mediums.
Residents and care staff involved in the project can access the activities here.
There are four commissions, most of these will be profiled in the blog in the coming weeks! The artists and their commissions are explored below:
If you have any questions or would like to find out more, please email culturebox@exeter.ac.uk