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Installation shots of The Institute of Beasts

By  Steve Dutton 2009

Steve Dutton

An installation of a number of parts, wall texts, sound works, photographs, prints, animations, ceramics and drawings. Animated and static geometric forms sit alongside inverted flower photographs, sound works are built by graphically interpreting activist slogans, a computer reads a pathetic and confessional soliloquy and a wall text appropriates the text of spam e-mails selling 'Viagra'. The text reads, “Town the dust was falling and the great the mystical omomom of the dynamos in the Electiclight room with the housekeeper staring after her in over towards me that lay all wrapped up in an ecstasy of heroism that made her almost”
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