KOOJ CHUHAN
digital
artist, film maker,
creative producer and manager,
educational and cultural projects
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Winner, Spirit
of Manchester Award 2024 for Creative Community
>> Finalist, Manchester Culture Award 2024 for Culture & Education
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Most
of Kooj's work is available to view at the following
sites of
organisations which Kooj has led, and with so much of Kooj's
work being
collaborative in nature these sites give a good sense of his work:
www.crossingfootprints.com
which includes the most recent work.
Kooj is currently the director of Crossing Footprints.
www.virtualmigrants.net
a ground-breaking artists' collective
originally formed around 1999.
Earlier work (up until around 2012) is mostly archived HERE.
koojchuhan.wordpress.com
which is a blog-style site put up around 2013-2014
with some worthwhile posts about projects around that time.
Kooj's old website
which lists and gives brief summaries of his early work.
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CONTACT me via <<
www.crossingfootprints.com/contact
Kooj
Chuhan Brief Artist Showreel on Vimeo:
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Selected Exhibitions ·
Powerhouse Moss Side 2023 Powerhouse Portraits community
photography collaborative exhibition ·
Manchester
Histories Festival 2022 Climate Connections video installation
Manchester / Oldham ·
People's History Museum 2020 "Viva Declaration" borders and rights
live video+music & installation ·
HOME arts centre Manchester 2018 Hostile Detainment performed protest
enactment ·
Commonword
Manchester 2018 "Heritage
Carrot" augmented reality art with writer Maya Chowdhry ·
Manchester
Central Library 2017 The Poppy Retake video installation,
colonialism and WWI ·
5 Theatres
across UK 2015 Ethical People
Movement video art for Continent Chop Chop
tour ·
5 Venues in Durham 2015 Footprint
Modulation exhibition on climate migration (as curator-director) ·
The Vale Mossley 2015 Chamada
From Chico Mendes climate justice interactive
video-art ·
Doh Mix Meh Up Oxford 2014 Diaspora Arts Exhibition
Buy This (v3) video installation ·
Manchester Museum 2013
90 Degree Citizen (as curator / producer) artworks by
refugees ·
Monitor 9 South Asian Visual Arts Centre,
Toronto, Canada 2013 Buy This (v3) video installation ·
Z-Arts Manchester 2013 Committed To
Represent portable panels of photography and texts ·
Turnpike Gallery Leigh, UK 2012 Infusion
set of installations with video, photography, text, banners ·
Platforma Festival London 2011
Buy This (v3) climate justice and refugees video installation ·
Bcubico Art Centre
Recife, Brazil 2011 Resonance interactive ROM installation ·
Delhi International Arts Festival 2010 selected artists films for the Academy of Electronic
Arts ·
Arnolfini Gallery Bristol 2009 The Centre Cannot
Hold climate justice installation + performances ·
SIGGRAPH 2007 San Diego, USA What If Im Not Real multi-screen
installation + performances ·
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Watermans Arts Centre London 2005
What If Im Not Real asylum & globalisation
installation ·
The Manchester Museum 2004 From H To O
interactive projected installation ·
Espace
Multimedia Gantner Bourogne, France 2003 Resonance (permanent acquisition) ·
The Manchester Museum 2003 Rekindle
installation (commission / permanent acquisition) ·
The ·
Castlefield Gallery Manchester 2002
Terminal Frontiers migration, asylum, globalisation
exhibition ·
AfterShock Commonwealth Games art exhibition, Manchester 2002 Metamotion
installation ·
St Georges Hall Liverpool 2002
Boundless Sky multi-screen dance installation ·
The Manchester
United Museum 2001 From Punjab To Football video installation ·
ISEA 2000 Paris, France
Resonance Interactive ROM ·
Lovebytes Intl
Electronic Art Festival 1999, Sheffield Resonance Interactive ROM ·
Oldham Art Gallery 1999 Resonance
multi-screen interactive installations on migration to Oldham ·
Video
Positive 95 + 97 Festivals, Liverpool incl. Nachural
Struggle interactive ROM installation |
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Selected Films and Video works: MIGRATION STORIES (2024, 10 mins). Documentary (all roles) - 100 stories of migration into
and out of North West England have been researched and documented over three
years by local volunteers and school groups. This contextual
film explains the richness of experience within this history, the project
process with local communities and why this work is so important. CONFLICT & RESOURCES IN AFRICA AS DRIVERS OF MIGRATION (2022, 2 mins). Documentary short for social media, produced in
collaboration with Emmanuela Yogolelo, filmed in DR Congo, directed and
edited in the UK by Kooj Chuhan. Part of a series of social media films
for the Climate Connections project by Crossing Footprints. CONTINENT CHOP CHOP (2019, 15 mins). Documentary (all roles) by Kooj Chuhan about
the theatrical show by Virtual Migrants. Austerity, refugees and climate
destruction Continent Chop Chop is a story told
through poetry, music, transmedia, video excerpts and spoken word connecting
legacies of inequality to climate change. FOOTPRINT MODULATION (2016, 28 mins). Documentary directing,
editing & some camera. Brings to life the
groundbreaking exhibition of art and interventions exploring Climate Change,
Global Justice and Migration - first shown in Durham in partnership with an
international conference on Climate Change and Human Migration. BUY THIS (v3) (2012, 6 mins). Artists video. All roles except sound design Refugee
connections with climate change, over-consumption, disconnection - an award winning project involving climate justice, science
and refugees. Screened across UK and Canada. DRESS YOUR HEART OUT (2011; 9 mins) Drama. Director, producer, writer, editor. Zany comedy with crazy costumes and characters such as the mad boffin,
a money-fixated dealer, a spirit from another world, an inedible pizza and an
addictive board game from West Africa. Produced for
Wigan & Leigh youth service, working with diverse young people and
refugees. NO TRACE (2007; 19 mins) Short Film Drama. Director, Co-producer. Written by Peter Kalu. Explores abuse and haunting of
the city. Darryl, a low-life private-eye, searches for missing kids because
he cant deal with his own abuse as a black soldier in the army, but a maze
of phantom city-scapes seals his reason to
double-cross Emmas mother for his own self-respect and Emmas. FACING UP (2002, 14 mins) Drama. Director, Editor & all production
roles. Four young regular guys address their lack of ability to be real with
each other when the plain one has a crisis. A film exploring mental health
and masculinity among young working class men. Distributed nationally by NHS / CAMHS
with workshop pack to schools and youth settings. FROM PUNJAB TO FOOTBALL (2001, 5 mins). Artists Film
Documentary. Writer, Director, Producer, Editor & various production roles. Compelling art-documentary about sport and globalisation, contrasting
the Sikh sport of Gatka with the most global of all sports - Football. Commissioned and premiered by Manchester
United FC. RAAG, GLITTER & CHIPS (1996, 17 mins). Creative
Documentary with drama and art sequences. Writer, Director, Producer,
Editor. A major production about the
struggle for Asian music in British society, screened at festivals including Kino
(Manchester), Bite The Mango (Bradford), Fillum (London) and BlackScreen
(Liverpool). |