Francis Whorrall-Campbell
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RESEARCH FILES: THE SCAR AS ARCHIVE, STIGMATA, 2024
THE VOICE OF YOUR DOCTOR, in 'Research Files: The Scar As Archive', Stigmata, London, November 2024
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED, PUBLICATION WITH PROJECT ARTS CENTRE, 2024
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED, published on the occassion of the exhibition 'sun, waiting for flawless / an ghrian, ag feitheamh le foirfe', Project Arts Centre, Dublin, May 2024
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED is a zine consisting of the first three instalments of a serialised novella-in-progress. Reprinted with a new addition, the zine presents the story so far, introducing us to the two protagonists – a trans influencer living in the year 2034, and a fictionalised version of Kurt Cobain in 1994 – as the pair travel in opposite directions across the USA, looking for the source of the paranormal phenomena disrupting their lives.
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A-POP-CALPYPSE NOW!, MULTIPLE VENUES, 2023-2024
poster for A-pop-calypse now!, ongoing screening series, held at Nottingham Contemporary and Modern Art Oxford
A series of screenings and discussion groups exploring the gayness of fantasies of the world’s end. Exploring the queer and dramatic desire for the abolition of self and society, the screening asks what solace and resistance can be found in surrendering to the inevitability of our destruction. Taking its cues from DJ sets, YouTube wormholes and the 24-hour news cycle, A-pop-calypse now! edits and re-edits the detritus of capitalist culture to try to create another ending.
WHAT GIVES, DIGITAL COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY, 2023
screenshot of the digital work What Gives, ‘Loading Bay’, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, 2023
Digital download consisting of editable folders of text and image. Once expanded, the ZIP file presents a series of nested folders that the reader (you) are invited to navigate through. Starting with a view through the double doors of Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture Etant donnés, language becomes the setting for your transformation from voyeur to the nude subject of the onlooker’s gaze.
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VID-NOVEL, PRESENT BY CHARLES DE AGUSTIN, 2023
screenshot of Babe of Archway: A Vid-Novel in Progress, ‘Present’, Charles de Agustin, July 2023
CyTube screening of a novel in progress, told through found video clips
THE COWBOY, MK GALLERY, 2023
printout of The Cowboy,MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, February 2023 © Francis Whorrall-Campbell, Photo: Jes Fernie.
text-based commission for the exbition, accessible here