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Audio Description

In order to have their welfare needs met by the state, a disabled person needs to try to translate the intensely personal issues of the body into the dehumanised, baroque language of bureaucracy, and must forcefully go along with all its processes. Wallwork’s Merg reflects that disorientating experience.

About Ker Wallwork

Another of the four new wave DAM artists selected through the Open Call for Curatorial Advisors approaches, Ker Wallwork is a London based artist with a multi-disciplinary practice spanning moving-image, drawing, text and sculpture. Their work is concerned with language, queerness, sickness and the welfare state. As a point of connection with their practice, they also work on an archival project to preserve historical materials from the survivor movement and disability rights activism from the 1970s onwards. Their film in the exhibition, Merg, shows in DAM IN VENICED and is an animated short story about a person who, upon waking up in hospital finds themselves assailed by a kafkaesque bureaucracy, rather than receiving care. 

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Image credit, Andy Barker

Image descriptions:

Banner image. Photograph of a large TV screen displaying a text based artwork. The brightness of the screen darkens it's surroundings, creating a thick black frame around the screen.

1. Photographed at a slight angle, a low lit exhibition space displays two TV screens. The screen on the left displayed a film in blue and purple tones with a black hand central to the screen. On the right is a white screen filled with typed text from an artwork that takes the form of a letter from the UK Job Centre.

2. Photograph of a large TV screen displaying a text based artwork. The brightness of the screen darkens it's surroundings, creating a thick black frame around the screen. Silhouettes of people watching the work obscure the view of the screen.