Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley

Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley’s collaborative work uses found and generated architectural spaces as settings for physical or imaginary occupation. These settings and occupations explore the real, the symbolic and the imaginary of architecture. Within them the coded forms of architecture and its rules, roles and territories are destabilised and transgressed.

Warren and Mosley often enlist participants in their work to open up a space of plurality and contingency that allows for negotiation and improvisation by its ‘players’. Their work mobilises momentary collectives of bodies, objects and architecture, that are discursive, mediated, playful and rogue.

Their projects have been commissioned by museums, galleries and research organisations internationally, including: ‘Days of Action’ event series for Tate Modern, London (2018); ‘A Nodding Acquaintance’ for The Edge, University of Bath (2017); Institute Français 2016 artist laureates for residency at the French Communist Party Headquarters, Paris;  ‘Rogue Game’ (with Can Altay) a series of hybrid games forming solo exhibitions at Firstsite, Colchester (2015), Spike Island, Bristol (2012), Casco, Utrecht (2011), Showroom, London (2010); event series ‘Utopian talk-show line-up’ for SantralIstanbul / Bilgi University, Istanbul (2014), Moderna Museet / ResArc, Malmo (2014); ‘Strategies of Indirection’ for ‘The Right to the City’ at Tins Sheds Gallery/University of Sydney (2011). Publication projects include ‘Beyond Utopia’ (Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2012) presenting a provocative planning application for an imaginary architectural vertical common for the City of London.

Warren is an artist and Mosley is Associate Professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol.