Behind, underneath, too long, too close, with love and affection, I am a site-responsive artist navigating the interstitial places I call home. Across time-based disciplines I document pockets of the British landscape to challenge perceptions of space, class, power, and the nation. These sites are contested, the edgelands between urban and rural – sprawling housing estates, motorways, landfill and scrubland. They are sites which are undervalued or overlooked, and places that hold critical questions about identity and power. Where we look from defines what we see, and how. Through applying a queer phenomenology to these places, I look at the landscape from behind and underneath, seeking out experiences of place that are suppressed.
I use lo-fi, defunct, affordable means – outdated digital video, childhood CRTs, tapes and DVDs. Images from video erupt into print and are reincorporated as artefacts, backdrops, slides, and window works. An expanded-cinema practice, I approach film-making as a form of performance, embracing the encounters and odd bits that build towards the final product on the screen. My practice is grounded in DIY, unattractive, and community-oriented artistic endeavours in London’s eastern peripheries; I challenge the value placed on locations, on attention, and on the material we use to capture it.
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