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For Dan

A companion piece to Mum’s Cards, For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest friend, radical university

A Lament for Power

This ambitious film explores the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in our age of avatars, video gaming

Covid Messages

‘Covid Messages’ is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The work focusses on the British

On a glowing led lightbox is a ceramic tray with erratic edges filled with blue liquid. A finger wearing a silver ring touches the power button on the lightbox

ZZZ

‘ZZZ’ is described by the artist as a ‘nocturnal work’. Within the video we hear a tired voice-over reading across her incomplete notes during the

Patrick

Luke Fowler’s work has long asked how we come to know someone in their absence. He has explored this question by creating posthumous portraits of

Circumstantial Pleasures

Klahr, whom critic J. Hoberman called “the reigning proponent of cut and paste” for his acclaimed collage animations, is best known for his seductive and

Weed Killer

Inspired by artist-writer Catherine Lord’s memoir The Summer of Her Baldness (2004), a moving and irreverent account of the author’s experience of cancer. At the

The Prince of Homburg

Patrick Staff’s vibrant, colour-coded video uses text from Heinrich von Kleist’s 19th-century play of the same name to explore themes of persecution and punishment to

Depollute

In a rapid-fire 2 minutes, Depollute presents a set of instructions, commands, a poetic edict dictating a set of actions required to perform a self

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