Helen Cammock : They Call It Idlewild

29 Feb-3 May 2020

Overview

Turner-Prize-winning artist Helen Cammock presents a new film and text work commissioned as part of Wysing Arts Centre’s 30th birthday programme, in 2019. During the Autumn and Winter of 2019/20, Cammock has been in-residence at Wysing responding to the organisation’s archive. Inspired by histories, photographs and artworks uncovered in the archive, Cammock’s new work acts as a reflection on the politics of idleness and what it means creatively, emotionally and culturally to be idle at a time when the questions are being asked more widely about the physical and emotional cost of hyper-productivity, required by Neoliberalism.