Creative Futures Institute at UWS: How Capital Moves & The Myth of the Many in the One

Showcased for the first time in Scotland, Kennedy Browne, a collaborative practice of Irish artists Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne, explore ways of temporarily occupying architectural fragments and cultural texts, merging ‘real’ with artificial, politics and kitsch. Two screenings will open with an artist talk and book launch at 5pm on Fri 31 January and the films will be shown again on loop throughout Sat 1 February, 12pm - 7pm, in CCA Cinema.

How Capital Moves (2010) draws on an episode of relocation of a multinational company from Limerick, Ireland to Lodz, Poland. Concerned with interrogating the predilections of neo-liberal investment, using internet platforms, Kennedy Browne gathered anecdotes of redundancy, crafted into a script made up of 6 distinct monologues, each capturing different experiences and anxieties of working within The Company. The Myth of the Many in the One (2012) attempts to deconstruct masculine genius. To explore the cultural articulation of a leader, Kennedy Browne focused on the boyhood stories of high-tech industries leaders such as Bob Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs - presented as visionary entrepreneurs responsible for key developments in electronics and digital technologies.

Curated by Katarzyna Kosmala.