what it meant to liberate yourself from being one and to transcend into a larger body. Online [Greg’s a fool…]  it’s documented as a sound work. But when shown it was an installation, it had performative qualities too. The audio takes the guise of a radio show that plays simultaneously on 20 pairs of headphones. The headphones sit in a pile on the floor. As you take a set of headphones the pile gets quieter. Given the content I felt it relevant that people were isolating themselves, closing their ears to the world in order to have a shared experience. Alone together… [sings] I must confess I still believe, still believe [laughter]. When writing the radio show I was interested in beliefs and the certainty in which we conduct ourselves based on the core principles we subscribe to, or perhaps on those we react to most strongly. I was interested in the tactics employed by the Brexit campaign to shape these beliefs. When I first heard that slogan ‘Let’s Take Back Control’ I remember feeling like we (remainers) could be fucked. Much like ‘Hope’, or ‘Make America Great Again’,  Let’s Take Back Control is as brilliantly motivating as it is evasive. It asserts a problem and promises a solution. Deep down we’re all desperate to believe that tomorrow will be more comfortable than today. How many times have you promised yourself that you’ll drink less and exercise more.. Careful you don’t end up with one of those classical bodies [laughter]. These slogans leverage the hope that life can be better, and they are irrefutable – it’s impossible in the present to prove anything about the future. I was exploring these ideas of belief and perspective via a fictional radio show, The Paloma Scot Show on EMTV Radio and stories that Paloma’s listeners had submitted. One ‘listener’s entry’ explores the now unlikely looking promise of one-time telecommunications giant Orange – “The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Orange”.  In an Orange lit room with Orange carpet, tinted Orange walls, the sound work climaxes as this promise lives out its own totalitarian nightmare. Shout out to the amazing Elena Saurel for her performance as radio show host Paloma Scott. And shout out to the brilliant artist Alex Jackson for his help with this install too, I couldn’t ask for a better sounding board and the jingle Alex made for the Paloma Scott show is perfect.  

What are your upcoming projects?

I’m currently working on some new sculptures, some CGI works and a new narrative driven work. I’m still feeling it out but I think it’s a conversation between AI systems that are on the precipice, or somewhere in the split second process of evolving into AGI [conscious machines]. They are probably wondering what it would feel like to have a body, wondering about love, purpose and belonging. I think they’re trying to work out what it means to be, or what it might mean to be. I’ve got to get inside it more but it feels like a natural follow on from the Paloma Scot Show and the performance before that. There’s a book that should come out later in the year too, a show on the horizon and the presentation of some sculptures that I’m making in Germany with the help of the genius that is Burkhard Klöter, more details to follow.