BUST is a series of audiovisual vignettes by artist Emily Pope, considering the economy through the lens of satirical memoir. Drawing on the character of the stand-up comic and visuals from karaoke lyric videos, this instalment looks at, amongst other things, the indie sleaze era, living with friends, olympic redevelopment in London and the launch of Monzo, with its £1000 overdraft facility.
This event is part of our current exhibition, Discord & Harmony – a group show which brings together works by contemporary artists who share Beryl Cook’s radically generous approach to representing everyday life.
Emily Pope (b. 1990, London) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans moving image, radio, printmaking, performance, installation and publishing. She uses incisive humour, satire and political rhetoric to critically engage with histories of broadcast media to reflect on contemporary life under austerity. Since 2016, her ongoing project The Sitcom Show positions the failed sitcom as a site for political commentary, staging everyday life within shifting conditions of class struggle, lesbian identity and intersectional feminist thought. In 2020 she was artist in residence at The Box and made the film One In Every Village, interweaving Dartmoor mythology with anecdotes and memories of growing up in Plymouth.
