Post-Colonial Archives

Empty Rider

““But how can we be certain about an AI’s period of infancy?”” In this science fiction short, the sentient self-driving car Vanguard-3181 stands trial for

NOX

NOX is an immersive exhibition that imagines the psychological consequences of a future populated by smart systems and intelligent machines. NOX (short for ‘Nonhuman Excellence’)

Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition)

Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) forms Chapter 8 of Lawrence Lek’s Bonus Levels (2013-2016), a series of site-specific video games based on alternate versions

Play Station

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To Be the Author of One’s Own Travels

Irish satirist, Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century novel, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is interpreted through a re-cut of a 1939 animation of the book, resulting in the 16

Thieves

In the second instalment of Critical Affection Trilogy, and Williams Gamaker’s first film in Fictional Revenge, Thieves is a fantasy adventure retelling of the 1924

The Silver Wave

The Silver Wave was an ‘Untold Stories’ commission for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. Inspired by objects from the Arctic region in RAMM’s collection,

The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return, the third instalment in the Dissolution trilogy, posits a now-struggling Sabu in 1952 as he supports his family by performing in Tom

The Fruit is There to be Eaten

‘The Fruit is There To Be Eaten’, the second instalment of the Dissolution Trilogy is based on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947).

Casting Kanchi

Casting Kanchi (2015) is a spatialised and expanded version of House of Women (2017) and a response to the casting of white actor Jean Simmons

Elephant Boy

Elephant Boy (2016) sees Krishna Istha re-enact the introductory sequence of Zoltan Korda’s Elephant Boy (1937), in which child actor Sabu recites lines by rote

Foragers

‘Foragers’ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights,

Wild Relatives

Deep in the earth beneath Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup

A Magical Substance Flows Into Me

‘A Magical Substance Flows Into Me’ opens with a crackly voice recording of Dr. Robert Lachmann, an enigmatic Jewish-German ethnomusicologist who emigrated to 1930s Palestine.

A Radical Duet

1947 London was a hub of radical anti-colonial activity. International intellectuals, artists, and activists like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Sylvia Wynter, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, and George

Themes: Post-Colonial