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Patrick Staff, LESBIAN GULLS, DEAD ZONES, SWEAT AND T. 2017 with Candice Lin Human Resources, Los Angeles. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber

BxNU MFA hosts Patrick Staff in conversation with Gavin Butt & Corin Sworn
Experiment Now
Tue 25 May 18.00-19.30
Online

Join Experiment Now, an in conversation with Patrick Staff, an artist living and working in Los Angeles, USA and London. Patrick's work combines video installation, performance, and publishing, to explore the ways in which history, technology, capitalism, and the law have transformed the social constitution of our bodies today, with a particular focus on gender, debility, and biopolitics.

Patrick will be in conversation with MFA course directors Gavin Butt and Corin Sworn to discuss their work and the limits and possibilities of artistic experiment within it and within the contemporary world.

Book your free place at this event here.

Staff’s work has been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, including at the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); and MOCA, Los Angeles (2017) amongst others. Their work is held in public and private collections internationally including MOMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; and the Tate Collection, UK.


The BxNU Master of Fine Art is offered in partnership between BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Northumbria University, Newcastle. It focuses upon fine art as an exploratory form of research activity driving the creation of new forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness. It looks toward the future of cultural work as diverse, networked and socially transformative. Find out more about the course here: www.bxnu.institute/mfa

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