A Lexicon of Counter-Productivity
A multi-modal site responsive research project investigating institutional life through the body.
Developed during a Brooks International Fellowship at Tate Britain, this ongoing practice moves between conversation, photography, and poetry to attend to what typically fades from view in the foreground of museum display and work.
Building trust with staff, personal encounters and accounts were anonymised and abstracted into poetry validating experience while reframing artistic practice as a gesture of care. Invisible labour as contiguous to art.
The research culminated in textual interventions and a lecture-performance featuring poetry drawn from staff accounts, alongside a key technique: processing Tate's legal contracts through a word-frequency calculator to articulate tensions between bureaucratic language and human experience.
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