The Adventures of Gas Hood
Gas Hood worries about weaponised air, and the 21st century use of chemical warfare. Seeing patterns, Gas Hood also worries about aesthetic modernity’s attacks against faith, hope and love. With stealth it creeps up on us, filling our lungs with mind-altering effect. Raise the alarm and resist the permanent war against the good in nature.
L’air. Bottled breath. 3D render perfume bottle, by Ashley Hampton, 2022.
Photo © David Goymer. Gas Hood Resisting at Comrades They Were Brave. We Salute You! London 2022.
A CAPITAL EXTRAVAGANZA
(Film still) Prototype: The Adventures of Gas Hood does Busby Berkeley, 2021. Hand-drawn animation and moving image performance 06:56.
Socialised as consumers, always producing, deeply entangled in how and what we produce, I perform myself and my character hidden in a mask, itself a character, a reconstruction of a WWI gas hood made to protect against early chemical warfare. Lost in a mass of technology, a material force. Where is our agency?
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GAS HOOD AT THE AVERARD HOTEL
Photo © Alistair Gentry. Gas Hood at The Averard Hotel, London 2016.
GAS HOOD ISN’T BUYING WHAT YOU ARE SELLING
OOOH! AAAH!
Gas Hood, 2022. Documentation of a performance at META ALARM, Bermondsey Project Space.
Gas Hood, 2016. Originating drawing in ink on Saunders Waterford paper 76 x 56cm.