His practice as an artist includes gallery-based independent work, performance and collaborations. He has shown his work nationally and internationally, and has also co-curated a number of exhibitions and events.
Peter is one of the core members of the Nanostate project - a visualisation and embodiment of the impact of networked technologies on citizenship and the nation state. This collaborative project has received support from the Arts Council of England (National Lottery Fund). It has recently been manifested in the event ‘Nanostate Reading Room’, London, September 1999, and ‘Five-Language Reading’ for Live-stock Ram-FM, Stockton-on-Tees, April 2000.
His independent practice is currently concerned with the role of the human subject as mediator, transmitter or pattern-maker - within a larger ideological or technological system. Principally screen-based, these concerns are also realised as performances and objects which play with simple illusions of virtuality and embodiment.
Recent exhibitions and events that have included his independent work are ‘Gift’, 2yk Galerie, Berlin, February 2000, (with support from the British Council), and ‘Agglutinate of Pleasures’, 291 Gallery, London, July 2000.
Contact: p.j.dukes@herts.ac.uk
