Archive 2013-14
Patrick Staff
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:00:00 BST
- End: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:00:00 BST
Patrick Staff is an artist based in London. His videos, installations and performances interrogate the political, physical and material conditions of social spaces, dissent, discipline and the body. He frequently collaborates with other artists, historians, actors/ dancers and public participants.
His exhibitions, performances and screenings have taken place internationally, recently including The Mental Furniture Industry, Flat Time House and South London Gallery, London; A Factory as it Might Be, International Project Space, Birmingham; The Figa Hand, 55th Venice Biennale (all 2013) and Chewing Gum for the Social Body, The Tanks, Tate Modern (2012).
In keeping with the artist’s practice rather than presenting a formal lecture Patrick Staff lead a workshop exploring and developing methodologies of collaboration and performance, research and improvisation.
Participants worked together through practices drawn from improvised dance and theatre, activism and methods of research as performance. In the spirit of open educative models participants were encouraged to share ideas, skills, knowledge and enthusiasms.