Ed Atkins

Ed Atkins

Still: The Worm

Ed ATKINS (1982, UK) is a contemporary artist, best known for his video art and poetry. He studied at the University of Oxford, and was educated in Fine Arts at St. Martin's and Slade School. Atkins has produced a significant body of work, based on exploring the limits of Computer Generated Imagery and performance capture, together with elements of live performance and theatre. In recent years, he has presented solo exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin; K21 Dusseldorf; Castello di Rivoli in Turin; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Serpentine Gallery in London; and MoMA PS1 in New York, among others. He was included in the 56th and 58th Venice biennales, and his works are in the collections of many museums and public institutions, including the Guggenheim, MoMA, Tate, the Smithsonian, and Musée d'Art moderne, Paris. His artwork is the subject of several monographs, and he has published two works of fiction with Fitzcarraldo Editions: the collection, 'A Primer for Cadavers'; and an epic antipoem, 'Old Food'. Atkins also lectures at Goldsmiths College in London.

Filmography

(all short, selection) Paris Green (2009), A Thousand Centuries of Death (2010), Cur (2010), Death Mask 2: The Scent (2010), The Anthropophagus! (2010), Press my Eyelids Closed (2010), A Primer for Cadavers (2011), A Tumour (In English) (2011), Death Mask 3 (2011), Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently (2011), Material Witness OR A Liquid Cop (2012), Us Dead Talk Love (2012), Even Pricks (2013), Or tears, of course (2013), The Trick Brain (2013), Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths (2013), Ribbons (2014), Happy Birthday!! (2014), Hisser (2015), Performance Capture (2016), Safe Conduct (2016), Old Food collection (2017), Untitled sandwich film (2018), Refuse.exe (2019), Ninth Freedom (2020), The Worm (2021)

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