Themes: Violence

A close-up image features the back of the head of young dark skinned man in the foreground. In the background, three other men, out of focus, are facing him. They are seated in what appears to be a gymnasium with a wooden floor. Bright blue balls are scattered across the floor.

The Destructors

the destructors is shot on location in Tower Hamlets, east London. Reflecting on Perretta’s experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the work reconsiders

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Shouting in Whispers

A collaged film work that takes open access online film clips to asks questions about personal responsibility, empathy and action. Moments in history knock up

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The Long Note

Exploring social histories through film, photography, print, text and performances, Helen Cammock creates multiple and layered narratives that are not linear, allowing the cyclical nature

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Changing Room

Changing Room is a video piece centred around the ceramic works made by George Cammock throughout his life, set in a space that has been

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15 days

Imran Perretta’s  video work 15 days, 2018 is inspired by the time that he spent with former inhabitants of the refugee camp near Calais, France

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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

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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

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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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On Venus

Staff’s On Venus is comprised of two parts. The first of scratched, warped, and overlapping footage documenting the industrial farming of hormonal, reproductive, and carnal

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Solidarity

Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were labelled ‘troublemakers’ for speaking out and secretively denied employment. Activists uncovered alarming links

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