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Junkanoo Talk

Who has the right to speak about whom? An understanding from afar of the colourful world of Junkanoo, a carnival- like celebration of the Bahamas.

Folds

Folds is a filmed portrait of dance artist and writer Alexandrina Hemsley that explores themes of intimacy, agency and temporality. Shot inside the controlled environment

Beyond The Substrata

Throughout 2019 artist Larry Achiampong developed new work in response to his residency with Waltham Forest Council. Working within an abandoned supermarket in Leyton, the

Wow and Flutter

A portrait of a magnificent bird draws on the 30- year relationship between animal cognition scientist Irene Pepperberg and the African grey parrot she trained

The Muse

The second part of No End to Enderby, The Muse, in which a young historian journeys to a parallel universe to investigate whether Shakespeare really wrote everything credited

It was a lover and his lass

“It was a lover and his lass” a single-channel, video collage by Stephen Sutcliffe takes its title and soundtrack from a song in Act 5,

Prole Art Threat

The film was made by scratching stenciled text into the surface of the film material. The text is a sync’d replication of the lyrics from

Art Class

Art Class is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title. It uses the

INCIPT

‘INCIPIT’ presents the process of recording the score for ‘CANWEYE { }’, a film in which the image of the film set, between states of

A Mountain Inside A Cave

山洞裡有山 A ceremonial film of the projection of ‘Double Ghosts’ in Taiwan’s Chin Pao San cemetery on 19th August 2018. Inspired by tradition of temple

Object Interviews (Part III)

‘Object Interviews’, is a series of three films in which specialists from various fields interpret and discuss a range of film props. Part I features

A short video about Tate Modern

In ‘A short video about Tate Modern’, I give an account of an experience that I had in October 2003 at Tate Modern in London;

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

Bathing

Bathing explores themes of contamination, cleanliness, and debility through performance and dance. Between the performer’s movements, the video intersperses images of oil, spit, fluid landscapes,

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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