A new experimental film by boredomresearch,‘The Cavanoids Dance’, will launch as part of Culture Night (23 Sept 2022) in Cavan Townhall gallery, Ireland and be exhibited until 3 November 2022. In ‘The Cavanoids Dance’ you experience the beauty of the Cavanoids, fictional creatures created by boredomresearch. The Cavanoids have been asleep in the rocks of
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‘Paisley Pearls’ Unique Forms Generating in Aberdeen & Jerusalem (2022-23)
boredomresearch’s ‘Paisley Pearls’ software will be generating new forms in two coinciding installations, at the Aberdeen Music Hall, Scotland (24 May – 2nd July 2022) and the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem in the ‘Paisley: A Princely Pattern’ exhibition (27 May – 15 April 2023). The work is a derivative of our ‘White Cart Loom‘,
Shannon River Residency in the Cavan Burren and the Marble Arch Caves Geopark in Ireland (2021)
For three weeks (23 August – 12 Sept 2021) we have been exploring the source of the River Shannon, in the biodiverse grasslands and bogs of the Cavan Burren, that blanket and conceal an extensive underground network of waterways. We have wandered among boulders transported by glaciers before, finally, coming to rest on the fossilised
In Search of Chemozoa Solo Exhibition (2021)
boredomresearch are pleased to announce their solo exhibition In Search of Chemozoa at Aspex Portsmouth from 19 May – 25 July 2021 as part of their 40th-anniversary programme. The multi-channel moving image artwork is a poetic response to world leading research studying cancer across species. boredomresearch developed In Search of Chemozoa during residencies at the
Human Cell Atlas ‘One Cell at a Time’ Public Engagement Commission (2021)
boredomresearch are pleased to announce their new commission with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an exciting global research project that aims to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells to describe and define the cellular basis of health and disease. As part of the HCA public engagement program, One Cell at a Time, brings
Restless Balance Solo Exhibition (2020-21)
boredomresearch solo exhibition Restless Balance is at the Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum, Arizona from the 5 Dec 2020 until the 24 April 2021. From the textbooks of ancient Greek physician Hippocrates to current research on the coronavirus pandemic, we know that human health is impacted by environmental factors. boredomresearch have collaborated with leading
An underwater microbiological world under stress
boredomresearch are exhibiting the first part of their Anthrobiotica (2020) film in Mar Menor Reset Exhibition at the Center del Carme Cultura Contemporània, València (28 October 2020 to 10 January 2021). Anthrobiotica is a video artwork depicting an underwater world of microbiological life inspired by the stressed environment of the Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain.
Artists in residence at the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Biodesign Institute, ASU (2018)
Just back from an intensive three week residency in the new Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (ACE) at the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University. Part of their $8.5 million from the National Cancer Institute is being used to harness the creativity of the arts to introduce novel value in the research process. Braving the blistering Arizona
AfterGlow Film screens at ArtScience Museum Singapore (2018)
boredomresearch are screening their film AfterGlow (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, ‘Recovered’) in the ArtScience Museum, Singapore in their onscreen Seeing Systems programme (3-31 August 2018). The artists participated in the ArtScience Conversation Event on the 18th August 2018 where they spoke about the research and development of their art and science collaborative project, commissioned by Animate Projects,
The Ultimate Fate of Jeremy Fisher Installation (2018)
boredomresearch are exhibiting their video installation The Ultimate Fate of Jeremy Fisher at Wray Castle, Cumbria in the exhibition The Women of Wray Castle: Convention and Control from 2 March – 25 November 2018. The animation exploits Beatrix Potter’s magical aesthetic to introduce a major issue of our time that would undoubtedly have received her