SELECTED WORK
Feedback Loops
Jacqueline Passmore
Tate Modern, London, UK
Commissioned by Tate Modern
4 channel live video installation
Feedback Loops invites the public to engage in open-ended exploration of the concept of infinity through physical interaction with the core concepts of feedback, looping, and infinite processes.
Through video feedback, the installation serves as a gateway to infinity, creating a visual phenomenon where the image reflects endlessly, echoing into an immeasurable realm. The recursive nature of this feedback provides opportunity to engage with the infinite, positioning the participant as both creator and observer in a continuous cycle of interaction. This dynamic interplay fosters a deeper dialogue between humanity and technology, with technology, often perceived as an external force, instead mirroring our own iterative processes. The experience illuminates how we connect to systems beyond our control, presenting feedback not only as an aesthetic but also as a metaphor for our evolving relationship with technological realms, where opportunities to engage with the fabric of perception and the sublime are ever-unfolding.
Commissioned by Tate Modern, and developed in response to Tate Collective’s Illuminate event on the interactive use of light. Part of Undercurrent, a youth culture focused curatorial programme of works sharing a sense of action and immediacy.
Photos courtesy Joshua Bradwell / Tate Modern
SCAN
Jacqueline Passmore and NOMO
AudioVision Festival, Liverpool, UK
Commissioned by AudioVision Festival and Arts Council England (ACE)
Single channel live video installation
SCAN is a live video piece that transforms the Mersey Tunnel Air Vent Building into a dynamic canvas, exploring the notion of ports as portals, and the dual role of Liverpool and New York City as both transmitters and receivers of migration. Redefining the visual expression of the structural façade, this monumental projection captures the ebb and flow of people, ideas, and cultures across time, using the architecture itself as a symbol of passage and transformation. The work invites viewers to reflect on the deep, ever-present connections between these two iconic ports, framing migration not as a single journey, but as an ongoing, reciprocal exchange of movement that shapes cities, histories, and identities.
Spying on Stars
Jacqueline Passmore
Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton, UK
Commissioned by Bargate Monument Gallery with support from the Experimental Television Center of New York
Single channel video installation, water, glass
Spying on Stars is a love letter to pilots lost at sea - a meditation on fluidity, flight, and the unknowable. Projected into a tank of water, the film’s images ripple, blurring the atmospheric boundary between air and sea. The water is a liminal space between life and death, certainty and ambiguity, refracting the film’s open narrative. The projection evokes fleeting moments of flight and vast skies, prompting reflection on the unknowable forces and unfinished stories that shape our lives and the world around us.
Supported by the Experimental Television Center, the film utilises analog video signal manipulation of archival flight footage, evoking the feeling of disrupted broadcasts, of illuminating dispatches lost in the ether. This technique distorts the original imagery, offering a fragmented, experimental exploration of flight, mystery and memory.
Ladytron / Live Visuals
Jacqueline Passmore
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Commissioned by Tate Liverpool
assume vivid astro focus’s Butch Queen Realness With A Twist in Pastel Colours Video Show
Live video performance
A celebratory series of audiovisual performances of Passmore’s hand-manipulated films with Ladytron inside the immersive world of avaf’s Butch Queen Realness With A Twist in Pastel Colours Video Show, a space of vibrant collision where art, sound, and performance converge, bringing Ladytron’s signature electronic soundscapes to life within kaleidoscopic live video performance.
This collaboration explores themes of identity, glamour, and transformation, amplifying the celebratory and experimental spirit of the Summer of Love: Art in the Psychedelic Era exhibition. Through a fusion of color, sound, and movement, the performance invites the audience to lose themselves in a transcendent sensory celebration of youth and psychedelic culture.
Tate Liverpool photos courtesy Nick Knight’s showstudio
Ladytron / USA Vs White Noise
Jacqueline Passmore
Fu Xing Park, Shanghai, China
Commissioned by Island Records with support from the British Council
Live video performance
A live audiovisual performance of Passmore’s hand-manipulated films with Ladytron at Shanghai’s Fu Xing Park marked the pinnacle of the band's tour through mainland China. The performance, captured in Jacqueline Passmore’s documentary Once Upon A Time in the East: Ladytron in China, presents a powerful fusion of music, visuals, and cultural exchange. Set against the backdrop of Fu Xing Park, this electrifying finale celebrates the band’s unique sound and their deep connection with the audience, blending the futuristic with the traditional in a striking exploration of global artistic dialogue. The documentary offers an intimate look at Ladytron’s journey through China, offering a glimpse into the impact of their music and the cultural landscape they navigated.