Game of Hope, 2023
Digital video, iPad, Bluetooth Speaker. 14 min 37 sec. Extract 30 sec.

Working through a not knowing of NFTs and their digital materiality, a 3D scan of a Snickers wrapper becomes an obsession through which to explore value systems, hope and class structures. Through an internal monologue we follow the considerations around making an NFT, revealing a personal conflict between the structures of capitalism, whilst desiring the luxuries of modern life.

On show as part of the Department of Art Postgraduate Degree Shows 20-25 July 2023 in Laurie Grove Baths Small Pool, Goldsmiths University of London.

Claire Davies, Game of Hope, 2023, digital video, iPad, Bluetooth Speaker. 14min 37sec.

Claire Davies, 'Game of Hope', 2023, digital video, iPad, Bluetooth Speaker. 14min 37sec.

Claire Davies, Game of Hope, 2023, digital video, iPad, Bluetooth Speaker. 14min 37sec.

Writing, thinking, thinking, thinking, delete, re-writing, delete, switch that sentence around, make a list, copy, paste, move that word over there, thinking. Through modes of stillness, observation and deconstruction, I create moving image works questioning desire, value systems and power structures through my lived experience. Focusing on our developing relationship to objects, I use 3D animation, photogrammetry, video and installation to surface narratives about lost keys, GIFs, weeds or NFTs. I use processes of writing, recording, and improvisation to open up spaces of contemplation and uncertainty. I regurgitate the written texts; record-transcribe-write-record-transcribe-write-record, to create multiplicities, open spaces like grassy fields, or a cow chewing the cud. I’m interested in creating a space where you can hear me think, process and figure it out, or not, shifting from the everyday, to the meta, to the absurd. Through readings of Jean Baudrillard, Sianne Ngai, and Moyra Davey’s fragmentary writings of the everyday, these semi-autobiographical narratives are weaved together through a continuous rumination on objects, our consumption and possession of them, and our desire to contain the world, in an image, on a device, online.

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Related exhibition:
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023