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Sounds from Beneath

Sounds from Beneath began with the artist Mikhail Karikis inviting a coal miners’ choir to recall and sing the sounds they used to hear when they worked

No Ordinary Protest

Can sound mobilise socio-political and physical change? Working across film, sound and performance, Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis adopts the children’s science fiction novel ‘The Iron

Genevieve

A portrait of monuments and people living in Geneva, Switzerland. Through short encounters and interviews with local residents and artists they discuss the public representation

Evidence of things unseen but heard

Evidence of things unseen but heard (2018) is an audiovisual collage conducted as an archaeological survey into the music scene of the city of Bristol,

Andropov’s Ears

A modernist monument in Tbilisi nicknamed Andropov’s Ears (after the then-head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov) has recently been demolished by the neoliberal Georgian government to be replaced by

Xitana ხითანა

First film in Medoidze’s Tusheti Trilogy, Xitana is centred around a bareback horse race tradition in Tusheti mountains – a display of masculinity as much

Let us flow ვიდინოთ

For me the Tush people stand out for their dedication to their traditional way of life which is influenced by extreme weather conditions as much

MADOLI

The traditional celebration of Madoli – with rich mixture of pagan and early Christian symbolism – is held every summer in the mountains of Tusheti

Untitled

Directness. Bareness. Harshness. No fight left, no drama. A reduction, a kind of freedom. Words suggest a persons efforts to dissolve and minimise human contact,

I Carry It With Me Everywhere

Informed by interviews with first-generation migrants living in the UK, this short film weaves together the lives of multiple characters as they confront inherited ideas

Violence of Order

Violence of Order comprises a video projection landing on two delicate free standing pierced wood and copper wire structures. The wooden boards are cut, sliced

Laughing Woman

A solitary person stands in the middle of an empty grassy green ground in brilliant sunshine, laughing directly to camera. Laughter, absurdity, ridicule and humour,

A love

Filmed in the artist’s home neighbourhood and within a temporary community, A love foregrounds interaction, quiet and tender engagement, forms of love, respect, presence, absence,

FF Gaiden: Black Death

“FF Gaiden: Black Death continues Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s remarkable body of work exploring the psycho-pathologies of racism as postulated by Frantz Fanon. Enlisting

The End of the World

The End of the World (2017) encloses the viewer in a planetarium style view of the solar system. The accompanying audio monologue intertwines examples of

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