The ‘Developing the Organisation’ strand of research will be an opportunity for Jupiter Woods to develop a dialogue and collaboration with Elijah Maja, looking at the notion of community and the possibilities for arts organisations to embed values and activities within a certain context and amongst different audience groups.

The desire to look at the context we’ve been part of, develop a certain accountability towards it and to understand our role within a certain locality, has felt more urgent in the past years–in parallel to how the development of the area has marked the territory, and our willingness to give more attention to the meaning of our presence there.

Thanks to Elijah’s guidance, his knowledge and experience in this field of practice, this programme will give us the right time and resources to ask these questions and develop a way of working that is responsible and open to the ground we have been standing on - one that has formed 6 years of our activity.

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Elijah Maja is an artist and researcher from London.