UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (2020) is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Through a series of stop-motion animation workshops held via Zoom, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experiences of ‘the unknown’ in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as part of its Public Engagement programme, project outcomes include an animated film featuring participants’ stop-motion sequences (Futuramic Unknown, 2020) and an installation for the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (The Night the Mountains Moved, 2020).
A VALE
Biosensor-activated sound installation
2016
Playfully out of sync with its architectural surroundings, A VALE explores pleasurable displacement through sound and the action of swinging. Equipped with a solar-powered, bio-sensor controlled sound system, the swing replies to your presence. Shifting from functional pastime to experiential medium, as you swing, the structure responds with a polyphonic vocal composition. With a steel A-frame base and nautical rope seat-bed, the installation juxtaposes work and relaxation whilst encouraging a skyward view – a proposition to reconsider the familiar.
Featuring an original composition by Seaming To
Commissioned for University of College London, Festival of Culture
Supported by Arts Council England
