Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World (MIMA / Middlesbrough collection)

The label

The inaugural iteration Until the End of the World (MIMA / Middlesbrough Collection) is a new commission for the exhibition Working Lives at MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) born from creative workshops there. It envisions the Middlesbrough Collection as a sleeping repository of the past and present. Perks and Stewart used the collection and displays as source material, engaging three groups to imagine the dreams of the collection through creative writing, meditation, observation exercises and karaoke. The resulting material was inputted into ChatGPT to generate as a script and then fed into an AI moving image platform, pictory.ai, which translated it into a sequence of moving images from existing databases and found footage. Accompanied by an electrotonic score using recordings of computational and modem processing sounds, offering an alternative vision of the Middlesbrough Collection.

The script

The script below is a collaboration between the artists, the workshop participants - students from the School of Arts & Creative Industries, MIMA Elders group and invited professionals from Tees Valley based cultural and environmental sectors - and artificial intelligence via ChatGPT and picture.ai

Until the End of the WorlD (MIMA / middlesbrough collection)

The credits

Until the End of the World (MIMA / Middlesbrough Collection) is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Sarah Perks and Paul Stewart are curators, artist filmmakers and academics within the School of Arts & Creative Industries at Teesside University.

With thanks to:

All our workshop participants including Bob, Doris, Irene, Marion, Sharon, Sue, Trish, Wendy, and Andrea, Callum, Cassie, Emily, Faith, Robom, Rose, Teddy, and Amy, Caroline, Karen, Katherine, Lauren, Mandy, Millie, Natalie, Oluwaseun, Omagehin, Rachel, Rebecca, Sally, Stephen.

Fellow workshop leaders: Wil Jackson, George Vasey, Danielle Ash

The MIMA team including: Elinor Morgan, Helen Welford, Claire Pounder, Sally Pearson, Kate Moses

Titles sequences designed by North Eastern Works

IAA support: Sally Blackburn-Daniels

School of Arts and Creative Industries and MIMA Research Unit

Teesside University

And our studio assistant Anouk Hoogendoorn anouk@formsofcirculation.com

Until the end of the world (MIMA / Middlesbrough collection)

mima social / thu 20 June

Join us at the next social event in Middlesbrough

Until the End of the World (MIMA / Middlesbrough collection)

The label

The script

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Until the End of the WorlD (MIMA / middlesbrough collection)

The credits

“They wandered in and out of lost worlds...”

Until the end of the world (MIMA / Middlesbrough collection)

mima social / thu 20 June

Join us at the next social event in Middlesbrough

Until the End of the World (MIMA / Middlesbrough collection)

The label

The script

PDF Viewer

Until the End of the WorlD (MIMA / middlesbrough collection)

The credits

“They wandered in and out of lost worlds...”

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