Idle Institute

Idle Institute

Projects carried out as part of the Idle Institute.


The trials of mosquitoes

Film footage • film-score • narrative in subtitles, projected on a stretched copper mesh screen • PVC curtains • copper shelf • Red Mansion Art Prize Exhibition, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2018

Complete film, also available at idle.institute

Digitally rendered object

Digitally rendered object

Digitally rendered object

Digitally rendered object

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018

Exhibition view, 2018


“Erm” or the last word of a fabricator

Performance • website • handmade cards w/ phrases • FACT Gallery, Liverpool, 2018

Project website available at idle.institute/erm/.

Screenshot of the website.

Performance documentation.

Performance documentation.

Performance documentation.

Performance documentation.


The itches: a gym for public embarrassments

5 steel gym machines w/ comfort padding • website • 5 short stories, audio on headphones • 2018


Please see the project website: show.idle.institute.

5 steel gym machine sculptures.

Digital renderings, clickable on the home page of show.idle.institute.

Screenshot of the website interface.

poster • 2018

Poster advertising fitness sessions.

Work in progress • In collaboration with Eliot Allison & Bruno Klopott (Idle Institute) • 2017

Early prototype for the Machine for the practice of half-opening your mouth during a conversation.

Early prototype for the Machine for forcing your way through the crowd using the ‘elbow-hip’ method

Early prototype for the Machine for the practice of half-opening your mouth during a conversation.

Early prototype for the Machine for forcing your way through the crowd using the ‘elbow-hip’ method