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Artist in conversation

Nina Davies: Glitch Guisers

17:00–18:30

The Studio

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Photo of a gallery space, with a projection on the wall showing two women in a park. The women appear silvery, metallic and distinctly digital.

About this event

Join artist Nina Davies in conversation with Sean Ketteringham, curator of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age.

Davies will discuss her practice and her work Image Syncers, which features in the exhibition. She will also discuss her work, Glitch Guisers, which will be performed in front of the Henry Moore Institute earlier in the afternoon at 14:00 and 15:00.

About the artist

Nina Davies’ (b. 1991, Canada) studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been exhibited at FACT, Liverpool (2025); Western Front, Vancouver (2025); The Photographer’s Gallery, London (2024); and Matt’s Gallery, London (2023).

Her work considers dance in popular culture, particularly its dissemination, circulation and consumption. Working primarily with video, sculpture and performance, Davies considers the technological roots of dance phenomena such as TikTok dances and video game choreography, focusing on the commodification of the dancing body and speculatively reframing contemporary dances as the folk dances of the future.

Davies’s work oscillates between fiction and non-fiction, often using a fictional podcast from the near future to comment on our lived encounters with today’s technological culture. Her work offers new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices and the digitisation of human body.

Main image: Nina Davies, ‘Image Syncers’ (video still) 2025. Courtesy the artist.

Tickets

Tickets to this event are free, and can be booked online via Eventbrite.

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Exhibition and events

Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
A futuristic or alien room, featuring wall-mounted display screens showing images of human and alien faces. The walls and other surfaces look to be made of a dark metal, lit by neon greens and reds.

Exhibition

Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

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Sculpture Galleries
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Phantasmagoria opening celebrations
A triptych of three drawings that combine machine and organic elements.
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

Opening night

Phantasmagoria opening celebrations

15:00–16:30 & 18:00–20:00

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Sculpture Galleries and Study Gallery
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Free exhibition tours: Phantasmagoria
Three hoodies mounted on a white wall, with illegible AI-generated slogans and digitally generated 'faces' under the hood. Wires trail down the wall from inside the garments.
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

Guided tour

Free exhibition tours: Phantasmagoria

11:00 & 14:30

Sculpture Galleries
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Curator’s Tour of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
A black-and-white, computer animated pirate ship with a crew of skeletons and bright red sails. The ship has eyes along the sides, where portholes would normally be.
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

Guided tour

Curator’s Tour of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

18:00–19:00

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Sculpture Galleries
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Nina Davies: Glitch Guisers
Photo of a gallery space, with a projection on the wall showing two women in a park. The women appear silvery, metallic and distinctly digital.
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

Artist in conversation

Nina Davies: Glitch Guisers

17:00–18:30

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The Studio
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Folkless Lore and Scraper: Dane Sutherland and Jamie Sutcliffe
A dark, unsettling photo of an abandoned indoor space that has become completely overgrown.
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age
Part of Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

Artist in conversation

Folkless Lore and Scraper: Dane Sutherland and Jamie Sutcliffe

14:00–16:00

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The Studio
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

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