Oxford Community Data Stream
2013
Mixed Media, variable .
Materials: 400 colour prints, 18 channels of video
Collection: Collection of the artist, Courtesy Victoria Miro Gallery, Londen.
Oxford Community Data Stream (2013), a multichannel installation that embodies Willats’s commitment to art as a transformative practice, was commissioned by Modern Art Oxford. The project provided the framework for a collaborative process aimed at creating a different kind of ‘new reality’. Here, there is no longer the authoritative determinism of the post-War ‘mixed economy’; instead, an act of interactive speculative modelling performed by people from two very different communities in the Oxford area.
