Commissioned by Bruce Ferguson for Walking,Thinking, Walking Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Denmark
The publication Errata was a parasitical intervention into a public museum, both as a guide and via the catalogue of the collection.
From the Introduction
The…
24Hour Hackney: A City Symphony was world premiered at a festival screening celebrating the end of a year-long digital film-making project at Open School East.
Inspired by a visit from the Echo Park Film Centre…
I've been thinking about things, how they're imagined, produced and circulate for some time. Living near Brick lane in London, which used to be a vast flea-market, has encouraged me to think about the material underside of shopping.
A flea market connects peoples’ actual needs and desires…
Museum Futures: Distributed - is a machinima record of the centenary interview with Moderna Museet’s executive Ayan Lindquist in June 2058.
The interview explores a genealogy for contemporary art practice and its institutions, by re-…
I'm interested in collecting as a method for making, and making sense of our biosphere. For a while, I washed and put on a shelf an example of every plastic bottle that passed through our house. Collected, these otherwise overlooked things…
The Enthusiasts Archive is 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.
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I contributed a presentation to the international conference Labour of the Multitudes: Political Economy of Social Creativity which took place at the Free/SlowUniversity of Warsaw, Poland, October 2011. Here is a written draft for publication, without footnotes. A print version is available in…
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 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, the London…
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 was online…
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 black…