Exhibiting artist Anneke Kampman will give a talk about her exhibition An Endless Archive. Kampman will discuss the research behind the historical references embedded in her latest body of work, followed by a chat with San Mei Gallery’s Programme Manager Rufus Rock, with time for audience questions.

Working as both an artist and a musician, Kampman’s practice moves between text, sound, music and image, analysing how the culture industries (re)produce personality for profit, addressing issues of standardisation, reproduction and artistic autonomy within the global circulation of pop music.

At the centre of the exhibition, Kampman’s video Baby-G (2023) explores the fragmented history of Casio’s iconic Baby-G, launched in 1994 as a line of women’s watches, “the vibrant, active, stylish little sister of the masculine, unbreakable G-SHOCK” as described by the film’s narrator. In a refracted and syncopated narrative that blurs the division between essay film and music-video, Kampman excavates the affective and material histories of these everyday time-keeping devices within the spread of information capitalism.

Artist Biography

Anneke Kampman (b. 1986, Edinburgh) is an artist and musician working across writing, performance, music and moving image. Her recent work explores the politics and multivalent histories of popular music’s global circulation via visual media such as the music-video. She is currently completing a practice-led PhD at the Slade School of Art under the supervision of Jon Thomson, David Burrows, and Benedict Drew. Her work has been presented at LUX Artist Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow; Pump House Gallery, London; South London Gallery; Glasgow International Festival; Jerwood Space, London; Somerset House, London; La Monnaie De Munt, Brussels; Café Oto, London; Mayday Rooms, London; Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, and BBC Tectonics Festival. Kampman lives and works in London and her work is always in conversation with the dreary vistas of her childhood, growing up in the Scottish borders.

An Endless Archive is currently on view at San Mei Gallery, Wed-Sat 11am-6pm, 28 April – 10 June 2023.

Kindly supported by Arts Council England.