As part of In the Hole, Sam Keogh presents Knotworm, a performance-lecture combining live-feed video, text, and drawing to weave together disparate anecdotes and histories of gentrification, tunneling, sabotage, and ecology. Originally commissioned for the 15th Lyon Biennale in 2019, Knotworm was an installation of sculpture, collage, and video proliferating around the base of a colossal tunnel boring machine known as a “worm.”
At BAM, Keogh revisits this work, regurgitating its elements into a newly convoluted network of associations that twist, coil, and fold around one another like the worms, roots, and tunnels depicted. In this dense aggregate of of information, histories of colonialism are tangled through processes of gentrification—London’s Battersea Power Station is filled with shit, mollusks burrow into the hulls of slave ships, and roots bust through concrete to quietly undermine the foundations of new-build luxury apartment blocks.
Triple Canopy senior editor Ciarán Finlayson joins Keogh in conversation following the performance-lecture.
At BAM, Keogh revisits this work, regurgitating its elements into a newly convoluted network of associations that twist, coil, and fold around one another like the worms, roots, and tunnels depicted. In this dense aggregate of of information, histories of colonialism are tangled through processes of gentrification—London’s Battersea Power Station is filled with shit, mollusks burrow into the hulls of slave ships, and roots bust through concrete to quietly undermine the foundations of new-build luxury apartment blocks.
Triple Canopy senior editor Ciarán Finlayson joins Keogh in conversation following the performance-lecture.
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