Vivid Projects is a media practice based arts organisation.Founded in 2012 and based in Birmingham UK, Vivid Projects is led by a  diverse and intersectional creative team working with under-represented artists, contemporary practices and cultures. The company builds on a lineage of antecedent organisations and we steward an important media archive of works produced by our predecessors between 1984-2011. Our curatorial practice centres cultural and contextual histories, builds long term relationships with artists and champions new voices.

After ten years based at Minerva Works, in summer 2024 Vivid Projects relocated to The Warehouse in Digbeth – the Birmingham Friends of the Earth’s environmental community building a substantially more accessible space. The public programme and archive space is on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible. In January 2025 we open the Vivid Lab, our creative hub for early to mid-career artists and producers, offering an environment to develop projects that explore new processes, ideas, techniques, and critical thinking.

History

In 2014 we created Black Hole Club, to support artists within the regional creative community. Originated by Yasmeen Baig-Clifford and curated by one of the inaugural members, Antonio Roberts, 2015-19, and now Cathy Wade, the programme continues to provide sharing culture and collaboration alongisde the new Vivid Lab supportive residencies.  Alongside this, we have the long term Birmingham Media Archive Project, exploring the tape and print archives of 1980s trade union and media resource centres and collaborations between the labour movement and emerging community filmmakers, photographers, designers, academics and publishers. In 2021, we launched a 5 year programme to support early career Black artists who want to explore live coding and digital creative practices:  (Algo | Afro ) Futures.

Please contact us in advance if you need help accessing our programme, or to find other ways to see our work.

Vivid Projects works with private and public sector partners to develop activities and raise funds to support future work. Supporters to date include Arts Council England, Henry Moore Foundation, Paul Mellon Centre for British Arts, mac, Wellcome Trust, Birmingham City Council, AHRC – British Music Project, Birmingham Heritage Week, Birmingham Museums Trust and Collecting Birmingham, The Estate of Donald Rodney, The Estate of Rose Finn-Kelcey Art & Science Festival at University of Birmingham, Public Engagement at University of Birmingham, Birmingham Centre for Cultural and Media Research at Birmingham City University and BFI.