Patrick Staff (b.1987, Bognor Regis, England) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and London, UK. Their work combines video installation, performance, and publishing. They have exhibited extensively, gaining significant recognition and awards for their work which is held in private and public collections internationally. Staff received their BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies from Goldsmiths University of London in 2009. They completed the LUX Associate Artists Programme and studied Contemporary Dance at The Place in London, in 2011. In November 2019, they are opening a solo show at the Serpentine, London. Their work has been exhibited at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2017); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015); Tate Liverpool, England (2014); Tate Modern, London (2012), among others.
Reading and Smoking: Candice Lin and Patrick Staff on the Malleable Body
“We want to in- and ex-hale a fine mist. Feel smoke soak every part and become a part of all. Make your eyes water. What are the effect of clouds on the gendered body during ‘an era of extinctions, loss, shock, reassessment, and disorientation’”? Candice Lin and Patrick Staff discuss ideas related to Hormonal Fog, their work in the Walker-organized exhibition, The Body Electric, now on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.