Revisiting Club Mix Keith Piper, Gary Stewart and Daniel Oduntan

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Inspired by artistic interventions in club culture that experiment with image, sound and movement, Revisiting Club Mix explores the energy of the remix, collective practice, and the radical creativity that emerges when visual art meets sound system culture. 

Club Mix is a digital multimedia presentation by Keith Piper that took art from the gallery into the club, touring venues across London, Birmingham and Nottingham in March 1999. The project brought together moving image, music and live performance, and invited new ways of thinking about how art circulates, is experienced, and is made collaboratively. 

Chaired by Daniel Oduntan, this event features a showcase of moving image materials used in the original Club Mix presentation and an in-conversation with Keith Piper and Gary Stewart, followed by a live sound session with Gary Stewart.  

Together, the evening reflects on the legacies of Club Mix, its creative processes, and the technologies that shaped the moment. Affordable home computers of the time played an important role, particularly the Amiga for visuals — often using animation software such as Deluxe Paint (DPaint) — and the Atari for music production. 

The conversation will also trace ongoing threads in sound and visual practice that continue to explore culture, technology and creativity today. 

This event is part of the Visualising Contemporary Art Histories project, supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Biography

Keith Piper

Keith Piper is a British based artist and academic. His creative practice responds to specific social and political issues, historical relationships and geographical sites. Adopting a research driven approach, and using a variety of media, his work has ranged from painting, through photography and installation to a use of digital media, video and computer based interactivity. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University, London. 

Gary Stewart

Gary Stewart’s work explores social and political issues of power, identity and culture. He is part of a global network of collaborators who are advocates for equality, climate justice and better health, especially those from marginalised communities. Between 1995 and 2010, he was Head of Multimedia at iniva, curating the digital programme, including installations, exhibitions, public and online projects. He is a founder member of the research, production and performance project Dubmorphology.

Daniel Oduntan  

Daniel Oduntan is an interdisciplinary media artist and designer working across sound, visual art, performance media, print, and installation. The core of Daniel’s work centres on questioning spatial reality. Utilizing storytelling as a means to amplify unseen ideas, archives, memories, and technology. His work frequently incorporates participatory themes to foster real-time dialogue and live archiving. Narrating stories from emerging realities and, ultimately, crafting new audio-visual languages in public spaces.

About the Project 

The Visualising Contemporary Art Histories: iniva’s Moving Image Archive shines a light on underrepresented voices and stories from the Global Majority, with a particular focus on the Global South, by celebrating and preserving iniva’s rich moving image archive. The unique collection of mixed media materials, document iniva’s rich programming history and addressing themes such as Black diaspora perspectives, migration, cultural memory, race relations in Britain, desire, and personal migrant experiences. The collection allows engagement with films that provide critical reflections on the Black British experience, post-colonial identity and community resilience; documentaries on socio-political issues; as well as poetic and artistic films that explore displacement and environmental climate change. 

By cataloguing and sharing these moving image works iniva’s project ensures that these critical cultural narratives are preserved, accessible, and celebrated. It highlights the ongoing relevance of these themes, fostering dialogue with contemporary filmmakers and increasing knowledge for future audiences. 

About Reference Point 

Reference Point is a multifunctional Library, Bookshop, and bar with the aim to democratise rare visual literature, and provide a community space for creatives in London.