Join MOCA’s Youth Council, Creative Youth, for their seasonal pop-up exhibition and programme! From Wednesday, January 14 to Sunday, January 25, this exhibition will run on Floor 1. On Saturday, January 17, stop by for Creative Youth’s seasonal youth-led programme! Throughout the day, see their pop-up exhibition, join for drop-in tours, and try your hand at collage. Explore the full schedule below.
About the Exhibition: The Art of Seeing
Wednesday, January 14–Sunday January 25
Written by Creative Youth
The Art of Seeing explores the concept of ‘Spectacle’ through the perspective of photography, scrutinizing how perception, from time to time, warps fact. In response to MOCA’s Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023 exhibition, the programme invites audiences to consider how images influence the way we see ourselves, each other, and the everyday world around us.
Spectacle is commonly defined as something visually striking, containing a particularly exciting element. Creative Youth expands this definition, interpreting spectacle in many intriguing ways ranging from how spectacle is experienced within one’s self, to how everyday objects are processed and understood in people’s lives.
This exhibition will be held on Floor 1 and will be free to the public. A General Admission ticket is needed for full museum access.
Collage Workshop
Saturday, January 17 | 10 am–4 pm
Drop by for this workshop, where you’ll cut, rearrange, and assemble images from magazines and printed photographs to create new visual scenes. By using photographs taken by members of Creative Youth, participants will also explore how meaning can shift through selection and composition. The workshop highlights the idea of finding the extraordinary within the ordinary!
Bring your own photographs for a personal twist or transform the provided photos.
Creative Youth Chats
Saturday, January 17
11:30 am | 1:30 pm | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm
Throughout the day, join us for short drop-in tours! Learn about the connection between Youth Council’s art with Jeff Wall’s photographic practice. Each tour is led by a different member of the council, demonstrating their unique voice, perspectives and understanding of “The Art of Seeing.” These tours are conversational and casual, designed by and for young creatives.
This programme is free with admission. Book your general admission ahead, or acquire your ticket at the door. Youth aged 18 and under can access these tours for free.
About Creative Youth
Creative Youth is a three-month programme of workshops, field trips, and creative sessions for youth to turn their emerging community arts passion into practice. The programme aims to expose participants to programme production, community outreach, curation and artistic professional development and culminates in a co-produced exhibition and public programme. In developing their programme, members of Creative Youth have the opportunity to respond to MOCA’s exhibitions and to broader contemporary issues. Members are responsible for coordination and facilitation of the programme including, marketing, writing, art-making and curation.
