23.10.2019 Lecture and Workshop
Tom Kemp
The practice of Tom Kemp (b. London 1988) employs the designing and running of roleplaying games both as participatory pieces in themselves, and as the departure point for generating film and installation. Works commonly address the consequential tangle of bureaucratic and economic systems with intimate relationships and bodily experiences, using game structures to divert, channel and synthesise the experience and knowledge of their participants. Combining deliberately partial objectivities, projects model and depict these complex, systemic phenomena and their highly sensitive symptoms, concocting a perverse form of collective invocation.
An alumni of School of the Damned, UK, and the Dirty Art Department, NL, he is currently a research fellow at the Sandberg Instituut and Associate Artist 2020 at QUAD, Derby, UK. Recent shows include Polly’s Wood, Goleb, Amsterdam NL, Me Gustas Pixelad, La Casa Encendida, Madrid ES, they swore it could talk to dogs, Bageion Hotel, Athens GR, and Blood from a Turnip, EYE filmmuseum, Amsterdam NL.