Blackout Installations

IFFR 2019

A constellation of sounds, images and histories from research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora is brought together in this slide-projection performance.

Deep Focus

Blackout

Black Utopia LP

A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’  arrangement.

A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’ arrangement.

Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity

Conceived during a time of violent protests in Kashmir, this installation dwells on Srinagar’s cultural history and media representations of the region.

Srinagar

A present-day hippy finds his way into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history in this humorous slide installation.

Ahmad Fuad Osman&rsquo;s hippy friend strikes several poses for the camera and the resulting images have been inserted into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history. Appearing the same age in all the photographs, the humorous figure transcends time but also becomes our avatar in a reflection into the past.

Recollections of Long Lost Memories

This exhibition and series of performances spotlight works that explore history and memory from a personal perspective through the carousel slide projector.

In Greek mythology, Mneme is memory personified. This installation is a projection onto a painting where textures are subtly combined.

Mneme

This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history.

Sedimentation of Memory

A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation.

Landscape Series #1

A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military  dictatorship.

A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorship.

A Man Called Love

The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors.

Non-chronological History

With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century  Britain.

With images sourced from the Liberty human rights archive, this installation shows post-colonial and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Britain.

Between a Gaze and a Gesture

This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.

Fossil Locomotion

This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Recollections of Long Lost Memories

Also in this combined programme

Between a Gaze and a Gesture

Fossil Locomotion

Her Luminous Distance

Landscape Series #1

Blackout

Between a Gaze and a Gesture

Black Utopia LP

Fossil Locomotion