So, I'm slowly learning to live with less, and experimenting with how to consume fewer resources. As part of these processes I'm making some of the things I might need or want, not in any dogmatic 'alt-right preppers' kind of way - I'm not about to be refining ore and forging weapons.…
Here is a version of the text published by The People's Bureau, without images and footnotes
Phantoms, controversies and communitiesFor the past thirty years I’ve lived on the Boundary Estate in Shoreditch east London, its the first public housing scheme built by a London wide authority…
This is a written-up version of a more discursive seminar at Chelsea College of Arts on the 28th January 2019, as to why Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum, and Jean Rhy’s Wide Saragasso Sea are forever linked, for me, to processes of decolonisation...
I wrote it up, as part of my…
In September 2018, as part of The Peoples’ Bureau residency at The Collective, they invited me to participate in one of a series of discussions themed around…
Dear Neil
The Peoples’ Bureau (PB) has been ‘in residency’ at Park Royal since May 2018, commissioned by Create London with support of…
I was one of three artists commissioned to research and make a proposal for a new artwork to coincide with the launch of The Box.
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Cascading micro-narrative architecture, as Composite performs a human performing a live-thread recall on the ocassion of the V&A Cluster's Bicentenary 2055.
The narrative architecture was performed at…
I visited Bank Job Pictures in a former Co-Op Bank in Walthamstow, and bought some DIY currency to animate community initiatives and cancel one million pounds of local debt.
Exchanging currencies at the radical @…
The Enthusiasts Archive was the result of extensive research amongst the remnants of amateur film clubs in Poland under socialism. It's a critical archive of beautiful amateur films found, restored and made available. It…
Every Friday, more or less, for the past year I've been posting an image of an object #ObjectOfTheWeek on twitter.
Each object is photographed agains a white or…
I wrote a short text for Distributed, about the possibility of re-imagining the world in…
Commissioned by Catherine Dickinson
I collaborated with Marysia Lewandowska, on a long term research project that was to coincide with the re-opening of the Manchester Art Gallery (MAG). The research culminated with a project entitled Free Trade, the following text is edited from…
As the exhibition train leaves the platform, we are taken on a documentary journey of "a happy hunting ground for tycoons" the birth of commercial television broadcasting in South West England, in 1961.
Broadcast Times is assembled from film fragments found at the South West Film…
During the 1990's I was very interested in the idea of collection for making sense of the world. And to be honest I'm still interested, take a look at #ObjectOfTheWeek on twitter.
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I contributed to: Decoder; 3rd Biennial for Video Art curated by Nav HaqContour 07 18 August - 21 October 2007 The City of Mechelen, Belgium
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Museum Futures was exhibited as part of I Taste the Future, the 2017 iteration of the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), Norway.
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Surrogate was screened as part of Short Bursts of Concentrated Joy
Curated by David Blamey for Houghton, the new three-day art and music festival taking place on the Houghton…
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