Curators and artists and visitors will discuss the issue of diversity in the art sector in general and in Brighton in particular. A closing party after.

In a cutting edge exhibition, The Other House at the BMECP centre, you will encounter a haunted home – haunted by social and economic exclusion, by wars, by gender discrimination and by environmental disasters.

SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon and the national art charity Counterpoints Arts have brought to the laissez-faire atmosphere of Artists Open Houses an exhibition with much darker tones and social consciousness.

The exhibition is spread over the BMECP’s large spaces, includes around 25 artists, local and international, presenting wide ranging work from photography, paintings and installations to performances and also talks.  It depicts among other stories the horrendous experiences of Iranian painter Nasrin Paryas in a museum in Tehran that was turned into a women’s jail; a stunning photography campaign about housework by Julia Andrews-Clifford, photography of child slave labour in quarries in India by Bharat Patel,  and paintings by Josef Cabey depicting the not easy position of being gay and black in contemporary America. Some works were made through months of group collaborations, for example with the International Woman’s Network and by Gil Mualem-Doron with refugees of the English Migrant Project.

The exhibition will open on Sunday May 5th with a unique world music performance by the celebrated inventor of the Fluid Piano, Geoffrey Smith.

The exhibition will be open every day throughout May.

More details can be found on www.seasbrighton.com