East, London
Lucy Clout
A Symptom
CubittCubitt presents A Symptom – a new body of work by London-based artist Lucy Clout. Sculptural and video works bring together research around the close readings of bodies in relation to medical diagnostic narratives, queer reproduction and pleasure. Questions of self-organising, passive and active participation are examined through references to online communities where the internet is activated as the site of extreme publicness and privateness. In October 2018 Cubitt’s public programme started organising under the title Structures That Cooperate, an ongoing programme that addresses Cubitt’s context as an artist-run co-operative. Events, workshops and artworks have so far shown approaches to organising, economies and collective formats, imaginaries and realities. Throughout the spring two exhibitions will extend and complicate these starting enquiries through solo authored presentations that talk to the questions of collective mobilisation from personal positions and politics. This exhibition is supported by Arts Council England and Outset Contemporary Art Fund. A Symptom builds on work made during a six-month residency supported by Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2018.