John Nankin

Lost with All Hands (Lost Without Hands) might be anchored in the present but includes a trans-historical presence: an old man in the guise of a 19th-century London Night Watchman. Using video, sculpted objects and live performance, the tableaux and actions abstract a once hegemonic way of life – post-Second World War optimism, the repressed memory of the colonial genocides, and the enforced displacement to the so-called Terra Nullius of those found guilty of crimes, crimes of survival, and crimes of rebellion.