‘Trend 2: This has happened before,’ film with audio 3 minutes 32 seconds.
'Trend 2: This has happened before.' A response to the recent book burnings and bannings in the USA and the threats of this censorship following in the UK, as well as coverage of various debates surrounding bodily autonomy.
With (no) thanks to: Rishi Sunak, Ben Shapiro, Piers Morgan (Wake Up), Pearl Davis, Andrew Tate, Candace Owens, Michael Knowles, Ron DeSantis, Jerry Sexton, Donald Trump (Why we want you to be rich, Trumpisms), J K Rowling (Harry Potter), Hannah Barnes (Time to Think) and unfortunately, more.
Exhibited in In The Making, November 2023, Reading School of Art, and U Slip Into, January 2024, Double Okay x The Vagina Museum
This film does not support the burning of books in any context, and is intended as a critique of the rhetoric which promotes these activities.
above: various stills from ‘Trend 2’ pictured.
exhibition of ‘trend 2’ in ‘In the making,’ November 2023, displayed on 70 inch screen, with audio through headphones
