Face in/Face out (Screen Bodies)

The crises we are living through are deeply tied to the politics of the body: who has the right to exist, where a body is from, how it may change, and which bodies are confined, erased, or rendered illegible. Certain structures normalise a lack of empathy and even promote cruelty. The complexities of embodied life urgently demand new spaces for creative engagement and speculative thinking.

Kate Cooper's, explores the relationship between bodily affect and the ways ideas of fascism have found form in the everyday and the mundane. Drawing on her position as a “foreign artist” who has lived in the Netherlands for over a decade and is raising a Dutch child, Kate examines the intersections between parenthood, embodied knowledge, and emerging technologies.

This new immersive installation and moving image work reflects these conditions and uses them as a testing ground for new artistic methodologies, image-making strategies, and forms of encounter. It considers new connections across bodies while probing how new technologies reconfigure intimacy, perception, and political imagination in the present.

Incorporating her ongoing, day-to-day conversations with her daughter and other children, Kate works through co-dependence to consider intergenerational ways of thinking through creativity and politics.