Museion Factory: Otis Mensah

This collaborative artist residency, running from Friday 16th to Tuesday 20th September as part of the Museion Art Club programme, invites a community of participants to explore possible forms of physical and linguistic expression. Otis Mensah is an artist who explores the intersection of poetry and experimental music. Taking inspiration from the rhythmic and expressive freedom of jazz, their work uses aesthetic language as a tool to address themes of identity, existence and coming of age.

On this special occasion at Museion, the artist will guide the residency participants on a personal and creative journey through the creation of collaborative, free works that use the mediums of sound, writing and the spoken word. Spanning five days, the workshop will investigate the relationships between hip-hop culture and jazz music, developing the ways in which this has shaped a formless understanding of language.

The workshop will include a series of collaborative sessions and group discussions focusing on the central themes of language as a tool for abstraction and knowledge, as well as more traditional creative writing exercises. This residency will also present a new work by Otis Mensah, which will be developed during their time at Museion, as well as a collective group artwork created by the workshop participants – both of which will then be shown during a final performance open to the public.