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A theory of holography described how a three-dimensional image of information, as patterns encoded in a beam of light, could be stored on a photographic

A Blemished Code

A Blemished Code gives voice through spoken and sung script to the work and life of artist Margaret Benyon, a pioneer in the use of

The Archive

This work comes as two forms, a VR based film and a single channel HD video file. The Archive (2017) is a video made inside

Collision Index

A selection of objects from the eccentric collection of the McManus museum in Dundee, are reorganised into a new analogical composition, testing unexpected relationships between

UNICA

UNICA is named after the writer and artist Unica Zürn (1916 – 1970), whose illustrated text The House of Illnesses (1958) figures her body and

Dust to Data

Dust to Data tracks through the colonial history of archaeology, to current parallels in the data mining of DNA and social media image banks. Working

The Hide

The Hide was shot over a three-year period (2019-2022), both in the remote mountainous region crossing Northern Portugal and Spain, and in Brussels. The work

Becoming Plant

Becoming Plant (2022) follows six dancers who participate in a therapeutic group experiment with psychedelics, while temporarily ‘living’ together on the demilitarised industrial site. While

Alternative Economies

Alternative Economies was made in conversation with herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad and financial services regulator Rachel Bardiger. The film discusses the imperialist exploits of the Disney

Henry

Henry is an interrogation of an image, an intimate examination of a stranger’s face and the filmmaker’s Grandfather. The film examines a portrait, which was

The Image that Spits, the Eye that Accumulates

A Mixed race body explores a Norfolk (UK) landscape whose future is uncertain due to coastal erosion. The physical erosion of the landscape, mirrors the

Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical

Afrofuturism is communicated via the Bahamian people through Junkanoo, a form of carnival in the Bahamas, originally celebrated by the enslaved who were given Christmas

Lens Diary

Notes on relational optics.(or… what lens did I use and what it felt like to use it, how it affected my physical proximity to people

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

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