Aislinn Evans is a site-responsive video artist. The sites she responds to are at the back-end of capital. She likes walking around industrial estates, motorways, shipyards, rivers, and landfills. She ends up living near them or in them as well. She likes to walk because it’s difficult and painful. Her body fails her, the landscape fails her more. Films and videos and other stuff grow from these walks, scored by the conversations she has on them. She wants to look round the back of this country (whichever country she’s in, usually England), where we hide our scrap and the sludge, and be with the people who get hidden here as well. Or who find hiding places here. She wants to look round the back. When we look round the back what should be normal looks strange, and reveals that our landscape is designed with intention. That intention is to control and maintain hegemony, heighten exploitation and grow profits. We reveal that those designs influence how we move through our landscape. Then, she wants to move differently.
She lives on contaminated ground in Southeast London, near an incinerator and a dump. Her work primarily focuses on South Essex, near landfills and waste processing sites. She organises for housing justice and plays with children.
Site last updated: 24/02/25
