She has recently been included in: Punctuation Programme, Limoncello, London; Unhomely, Deptford Art House, London; XLV, MXXXII, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds; Interim, LCAD; The Legacy of 1968, Clore Centre, London; Imagining Business, Oxford Business School, Oxford; What is the Empirical?, Goldsmiths, London. She was invited to produce work at the annual meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science 2007 (Montreal) and 2008 (Rotterdam) and collaborated on a performance at the Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (Copenhagen, 2009).
Wakeford’s recent installations use video and film loops of architectural monuments and juxtapose these with other sculptural or time-based elements. Attempting to refuse a purely nostalgic view of the monuments, Wakeford is interested in the ways in which nostalgia might be questioned by the invocation of other cultural experiences or emotions. In ex she is showing There’s only two only two kinds of people in the world/The ones that participate and the ones that observe which consists of two videos shown on stacked monitors. A video loop of the BT Tower sits on top of a second video recording a group of cheerleaders as they rehearse their routines of throwing and catching each other. Their actions appear to address the character of the tower above. Yet they also generate a momentum that contrasts with the silent, fetishised building, their counting to keep time evidence of participation rather than just observation.
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‘There’s only two types of people in the world/The ones that
participate and the ones that observe’ - Two looped digital videos - 2009
‘We will replace all men with machines’ - Installation view
Psychelitic stimulation lamp,aluminium, black elastic, 16mm film loop (23 sec) - 2009
