Resistant Materials: Block C Artists in Residence
9 July - 19 July 2025
Cubitt, London

Over the last two years artists Niki Kohandel, micheal. and Jasmin Bhanji undertook residencies at Arts and Media School Islington (AMSI) to explore the role of artists in schools and learning, and the ways in which we can meaningfully involve people who are not normally involved in shaping culture to do so. Each artist has been active in the rhythm of the school, researching and delivering projects that exposed their ideas to students as well as reflections within and across our communities.

Our residences are held at Block C in a disused technology classroom repurposed as four artist studios in AMSI. Initiated in 2018, resident artists have used the opportunity to hold a studio within a formal education context to explore questions around learning and education whilst contributing to the school ecology through commissioned projects.

Block C investigates how we might pool and share our resources at a time when the arts and education sectors are under intense pressure to deliver more with less. It is a direct response to the sidelining of artistic and creative subjects in the curriculum – which led to the technology classroom falling out of use.