Lives and works between London and Paris.
Russell Perkins’ work is rooted in exchange and collaboration. His recent projects involve sharing knowledge, practices and methods among people with diverse expertise, from detectives to poker players, forensics researchers, and financial market participants. Russell Perkins' multidisciplinary practice reveals the reciprocal affects of economic and bodily phenomena. Using computer data streams and scientific samples as his tools and materials, he designs sensitive, visual and auditory experiments that invite us to pay attention to the hidden workings of an omnipresent capitalism that directs our movements and governs our bodies. The fields of uncertainty, the unspeakable and the arbitrary thus become the terrain for investigating the precarious balances of markets, systems, rituals and the individuals who inhabit them. Noise becomes musical, dissonance harmonious, risk-taking perennial. Hijacking factual information, supposedly objective and often capitalizable, results in a sensitive and critical play on our relationships to knowledge and time. For Russell Perkins, the 100-Days Residency will be an opportunity to pursue these collaborative research and practices, nourished by a personal involvement in queer communities and a long-standing commitment to anti-carceral activism. In fact, shared practice appears as a call to develop less coercive relational dynamics, open to renewed forms of militancy and collective political action.