Cycling personal anecdotes overlaying stock footage and 8mm film, an arbitrary autotheoretical knowledge system, a failing voice clone, an obsession with Greek choruses, theatrics, a landscape, an aspirational pseudo-epistemology against techno-fascist aesthetics and thinking machines.

I have always liked things that were all at once.

Not abundance so much as excess.

The thing about too much is that it is so hard to capture; the thing about too much is also that it is not the same for everyone. I am interested in how there is too much world, how that too much gets told, comes into relation, into friction, into story, by who in what metaphors and why. What structures the feelings of being in relation, and how knowledge gets named and organized, how it gets captured. The things that capture too much are really things that catch the feeling of being complicit in a superabundance we cannot control. 

Jane Frances Dunlop’sThis is a thing to know (landscape) stages a series of choral works interlocking and overlaying across the gallery. It begins by presenting a set of ‘knowledge system videos’; a dataset constructed from personal anecdote and stock footage to capture a particular effort to know the world. As the exhibition continues, the artworks explore rapid information translation, and the accompanying disintegrations, as the artist uses performance, digitised 8mm and composite choruses to process and rearrange these knowledge system videos. The entangled installations shift through information, memory and sound to produce more: more images, more voices, ever further removed from what they capture. The knowledge system becomes increasingly fragmented, taken apart and reconfigured, handled and shaped by new systems and old mediums.

This is a thing to know (landscape) brings together a body of artworks emerging from the confusions of knowledge making in the 21st century, and the cultural and social shifts brought on by two crises of knowledge that define the last decade: the rise of ‘alternative facts’ that undermine and destabilise expertise, and the increasingly complex AI systems for which datasets operate as intelligence. Specific and personal, the works are an attempt to produce coherent knowledge systems by rendering memory, image and voice as data, as information, that loses its intelligibility and circulates again and again. This is a thing to know (landscape) performs the frictions of an effort to capture and parse the things one person knows.

Curated by Natalie D Kane

Jane Frances Dunlop is an artist, researcher and educator. She creates installations, videos, essays, poems, and performances. Her work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally and her writing has appeared in digital publications, academic journals and exhibition programmes.

Natalie D Kane is a curator with over a decade of expertise in digital design, art and technology, as well as broader expertise in design culture, ethics and society. They are Curator of Digital Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum where they recently curated Design & Disability, an exhibition on disabled cultural production through the lens of design, architecture, art and photography (June 2025 – Feb 2026).


Events:

Fragmentations of knowledge making taking in the 21st c.

15h - 17h on Sunday 24 May 2026

this is a thing to know (landscape) attempts to perform the frictions of the effort to capture the things one person knows, but what one person knows is always a consequence of the knowledge of others. As part of the exhibition, curator Natalie Kane and artist Jane Frances Dunlop have invited two artists and thinkers whose creative and critical work engages with the sonic and visual complexities of the 21st century to further extrapolate the knowledge system at the heart of this exhibition.

Amina Abbas-Nazari and Paul Bailey will respond to the exhibition and join curator Natalie Kane and Jane Frances Dunlop in conversation.

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Talk & Tour for parents & babies

10.30h - 12h Thursday 28 May 2026

Parents with young babies are invited to special open hours to view the exhibition. The artist will give a brief talk about the exhibition and the impacts of parenting on her practice.

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breaking the (g)loom ii

15h - 17h on Saturday 30 May 2026

Convened by creative technologist Mat Hill, breaking the (g)loom is an open event for slideshows, performances, and fellowship amongst the AI-agnostic.

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