The News, 2018

The News, 2018
HD digital video with sound
3 min 11 sec

In this video work Bob Bicknell-Knight utilises footage from Dahir Insaat, a corporation and creative company that produces speculative animations as visual proposals to various governments and corporations around the world. The videos usually employ gravity and logic defying creations, from gyroscopic transportation devices to air dropped, drone activated, weaponry. The footage is foregrounded by an animated breaking news bar, supplying a continuous flow of ambiguous anti-capital texts, quoting various philosophers and writers.

The News has been included in the following exhibitions:

– The News, curated by Lulu Nunn. Online at Hoax Publication, 17th November 2020.
– Inside Intel, curated by Elliott Burns, India Murphy and Jake Charles Rees. At The Centre for Investigative Journalism, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 16th – 20th October 2018.
– Duty Free, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight. At Chelsea College of Art, London, UK, 15th – 23rd June 2018.