https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/bio daily 1.0 2025-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591718181494-6I6VATWXUZ540WG7PC6Q/Alex%2527s%2BShow-52.jpg Bio - Much of Pearl’s practice is a contrived fiction, roles are adopted and discarded at will. He has applied or funding not to go to he Antarctic, and managed to infiltrate Top Gear, when it was still popular. In 2018 he completed a PhD (at MMU and FACT Liverpool) on mechanical breakdown and anthropomorphism. This involved making, and pretending to dress up as, a series of badly made robots. He is interested in town planning, but current work uses gif animation to unravel the strange afterlife of images in the digital realm. Solo Exhibitions and Screenings 2024, Sick Bed, Atlas House 2021, Petting Zoo, Small House Gallery, London 2020 We’ve Never Heard of this Man, The Executive, Ipswich 2018 Breakdown, ELAN, Cambridge 2017 Love Machines, The Minories, Colchester 2016 Denis ex Machina, Canal Project Space, London Object Liberation Front, Metal, Liverpool 2015 Machine 2, Gallery 333, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter 2014 Mothra vs Godzilla, Canal Gallery, London 2012 Let’s Go!, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton. 2010 Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable (commission) The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tap Gallery Southend, (solo) Goodbye to most of the Daydreams, ICIA, University of Bath 2009 Goodbye to most of the Daydreams, BCA Gallery, Bedford 2008 Persistence of Vision, City Gallery offsite program, Leicester Little Deaths, Salt Gallery, Hayle Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings & Film Festivals 2025 Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London Edmonton Underground Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada Intimate histories, Microacts, London Sluice Film Festival, Iceland Vertical Hold, PUNCH Projects,Thorp, WA and @galleryoneellensburg in Ellensburg, WA, USA 2024 One Minute Volume 11, Touring Sluice Vernacular, The Minories, Colchester 2023 Breaking the Narrative, Thamesside Studios, London, https://www.thames-sidestudios.co.uk/news/exhibitions/2023/breaking-the-narrative 2020 One Minute Volume 10, curated by Kerry Baldry (touring) Moon Show, General Practice, Lincoln 2018 Uncommon or Garden, The Jugg Art Foundation, Ipswich Sciomancy, Transition Two, London (Two person show with Katherine Tulloh) Open Call, Atlas House, curated by Adam Thompson 2017 Our Friends Electric, QUAD, Derby A Grand Exposition, Talbot Mill, Manchester Ghost Cinema, Transition Gallery, London 2016 Home Time, Transition Gallery, London Ob_ject & Ob_serve, Small View Gallery, Gostins Arcade, Liverpool Time is Love - 9, Berlin, Paris, Seydisfjordur, Yokohama, and touring, curated by Kisito Assagni One Minute, volume 8, Touring, curated by Kerry Baldry 2015 Compression Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University The Names, Transition Gallery, London Sluice Art Fair (Transition Gallery) Critical & Contemporary Culture - Play, Waterside Contemporary, London & Online 2014 Enclosures, CANAL, London Monomania, Cambridge Junction, Aid & Abet, Cambridge News From Nowhere, Kelmscott House, London 2013 Playing with Space, Firstsite, Colchester, curated by Lawrence Bradby and Tim Phillips Time is Love, (touring), curated by Kisito Assagni One Minute, volume 6, Touring, curated by Kerry Baldry 2012 Now the Dream is over and the insect is awake, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London The End of the Future, Transition Gallery, London S1 Salon, S1 Artspace, Sheffield Bread & Roses, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol Journeying with Shadows, 19th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film Collectible, Zeitgeist Art Projects, London Beyond Belonging, 12th GOEAST – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden, Germany 2011 Sluice, London Eastern Pavilions, Norwich curated by Kaavous Clayton The Man who Fell to Earth, A Monika Bobinska project at Jens Hills, 4-25 June 2011 The Count of Monte Cristo, Rogue Project Space, Manchester, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter & Influx, Limerick (Group show with Annabel Dover, Mimei Thompson & Hayley Lock) Pulp Fictions, Transition Gallery, London, curated by Cathy Lomax Badlands, London Art Fair, Islington (curated by Monika Bobinska) Saison Video, Lille Creative Machines Minimalist Sculpture, THE EVENT, Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, Curated by Charlie Levine and Minnie Weisz. (touring) 6 Degrees, The Monks Gallery, Lincoln In Close Succession, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich 2010 Unspooling – artists and cinema, Cornerhouse, Manchester (curated by Andrew Bracey & Dave Griffiths) Artside, Southend, curated by Michaela Freeman & Amy McKenny Floccinaucinihilipilification, King’s Lynn Arts Centre Korean Experimental Art Festival, Hogdae, Seoul Verwertung, Stattbad Wedding, Berlin Meleager’s Garland, Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory, Lincoln Cosmic Mysteries, London Art Fair, London & Gallery Espacio, Valencia, curated by Monika Bobinska Quiet Voices, Tate Britain, London 2009 Shift Festival, Basel For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn, g39, Cardiff, Curated by Michael Cousins Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, DCP, San Francisco, Airspace, Stoke on Trent, & Cell project space, London. curated by Ian Brown, (Publication) Animated, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, curated by Lotte Juul Petersen Between Tracks, International 3, Manchester & Nextex, Bad Haus, St Gallen (curated by the Salford Restoration Office Windows Festival, Residence, Belfast Fragments, Geborgen Kamers The Hague Perforation, UAMO, Munich Refutation, London & Online E32, 5C Cultural Center Lounge, New York 2008 Outpost Members Show, Outpost, Norwich Big Vaudeville 100, Greenroom, Manchester Reading Experimental Film Festival, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading From the Picturesque to the Demolished, Stratford, London Studio Voltaire Members' Show, Studio Voltaire, London Open Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham Sizemology, BBC Big Screen, Liverpool To the Pleasure Garden, Tatton Park Biennial, Manchester Cheap Like Wow, UAMO 2008, Munich 2007 Intermix, Pavilion, Leeds Vane Shorts, Vane, Newcastle RSVP, Contemporary Artists at the Foundling Museum, London (commission & exhibition) Time Based Media Invitational, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Demolition, Site, Liverpool Joking Aside, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, curated by Craig Ashley Black Light, Colony, Birmingham, curated by Mona Casey & Paul McAree 700IS Experimental Film & Video Festival, Culture Centre of Fljotsdalsherad, Egilsstadir, Iceland (and touring to Reykjavik, St Petersburg, Arizona and Alsager) One Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland Digifestival, 2007, Florence Experimenta 2007, Bangalore & Mumbai Fresh, South Hill Park, Bracknell Edge, Kings Lynn, curated by Sook-Kyung Lee 2006 Drawing Links, The Drawing Room, London & Touring to Outpost, Norwich, International3, Manchester Hun Gallery International, Hun Gallery, New York Purescreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Tulca, Visual Arts festival, Galway 60 seconds of Play. Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, Savannah, Delhi (Touring), curated by Avantika Bawa The Vending Machine Project, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (multiples project) The Moving Picture Show, BCA Gallery, Bedford Parkgewusel Festival, Vienna, Austria Darklight, Dublin Izolenta ’06, International Digital Film Festival, Museum of Cinema, St Petersburg 2nd Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece D>Art.06, dLux Media Arts, Sydney, Australia 37 Seconds, BBC Big Screen Liverpool, Clayton Square, Liverpool 2005 Regeneration, WAG at St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich About Space, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham Trampoline, Reactor, Nottingham L’Alternativa 2005, 12th Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Extra Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia. Residencies 2011, Art as a Full Time Hobby, Aid & Abet, Cambridge 2010, Pearlville, Production Residency for, Unspooling – artists and cinema, Cornerhouse, Manchester (curated by Andrew Bracey & Dave Griffiths) 2009, Production residency BCA gallery, Bedford, 2008, Automatic Film making Residency, There & Then, Airspace, Stoke on Trent 2007, Bury St Edmunds Arts Festival, artist in residence, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 2006, Automatic Film making Residency, Sideshow, Nottingham Talks, discussion groups etc “Goodbye to most of the Daydreams”, In Conversation with J J Charlesworth, ICIA University of Bath “Alex Pearl”, Airspace, Stoke on Trent “Failure”, In Conversation with John Plowman, Café Artistique, Cardiff “To Go or Not to Go”, In conversation with Chris Dobrowolski & Simon Munnery “To Blog or not to Blog”, Artists Talking event, Peckham Space, London “Operation Pusscat”, Too Many Artists, Market Project Event, Firstsite, Colchester Publications “Little Orphan Artists”, Garageland Family, Issue 11 winter/spring 2011 “Annabel Dover”, Garageland Nostalgia, Issue 8 2010 “Trying to Cope with Things that aren’t Human”, 2009 Awards: 2006/7 Selected artist - Escalator Visual Arts, Commissions East Several projects have been supported by the Arts Council (and several haven’t) https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/stone-tape-theory daily 0.75 2022-02-13 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work daily 0.75 2025-11-29 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/breaking-the-narrative monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1731582481708-F724UI3M56SA601R1LOC/IMG_1160.jpg Work - Breaking the Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/713083bd-ee80-47c2-a221-41ed093c2793/20210725_135514.GIF Work - Breaking the Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1731582673506-VMV0X0R2VG2IV2TJYVIK/cadavre.jpg Work - Breaking the Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/7505c018-567e-4093-8299-3f3f73eaac4f/20210528_075459.GIF Work - Breaking the Narrative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1731582786157-W30YO1WASASXAMWLEEUJ/IMG_1171.jpg Work - Breaking the Narrative https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/protest-films monthly 0.5 2020-06-29 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/foundling monthly 0.5 2020-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1594028409607-G3H6BVU90EJE1OQLF6UU/Portrait.jpg Work - Foundling Artist 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1594028413604-GSQCDDD84U3H8RQ0VKMB/lenticula1.jpg Work - Foundling Artist 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1594028488306-AOSGTQFR97IAGLEYBY6Z/lenticula2.jpg Work - Foundling Artist 2007 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/goodbye monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592214006815-BM84BRVZODQIO8B7MXPB/trace1.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592213996150-4UN4MVE7FVFD4PPET2DI/trace2.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592213990878-WKIBNMEQXL9LGG3YRZEL/trace3.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592214004929-3F7MOJ6BNNU7PHU2EC1V/trace4.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592213989627-X18EGW1TU42ZQHX4IVE5/trace5.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592214004859-YKORPJHZIFT4X4TW0774/trace6.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592214012480-36VSLUYETMMOLYSOHWA8/trace7.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592214012477-KSM0EL5MN9N29UL5G1AS/trace8.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592215539560-4LX1BREKM9FBQUZUHZ4Z/guardian+review+web.jpg Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592214694169-CD9Z5LPN4GWK1KQ6QDB2/float.JPG Work - Goodbye to Most of the Daydreams 2009 Float, fan, tissue, blutack, string, cutout, 2008 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/whitstable-biennial monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592210708566-7JCHJVK957R7F7FRS909/S1120009.jpg Work - Whitstable Biennial 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592210745718-IMXD0TNSOVAG3IVGSSRY/S1120001.jpg Work - Whitstable Biennial 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592210826656-L32MH5S1QNFR05YLH47B/ghostmary.jpg Work - Whitstable Biennial 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592211833422-D8US73Z9Z9L5LBQ4XGLF/Call.jpg Work - Whitstable Biennial 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592212013586-HLAGN0M9UHHYZNV3KCR3/blue1.png Work - Whitstable Biennial 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592212081157-LVMGE5FSIH7T1LN9PBGP/blue2.png Work - Whitstable Biennial 2010 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/mothra monthly 0.5 2025-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012759055-0HMQ1XWDB7U0NQ1AS7F2/Mothra.jpg Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012796638-0UNQU3E4Z3Y66AHROV1D/2.JPEG Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012801382-0ETZ7DXZ570A2L9VP5X4/5.JPEG Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012810423-OB46QANXWPWJBMU5AVA6/6.JPEG Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012813882-ZJTD5IO1LSLMM74LGW2N/8.JPEG Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012830482-ULTGWD2A1TEAB8DTYT5J/Eleph+9.jpeg Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012885185-M7YGU1BGV3L3SYA7VSAZ/Football1.JPEG Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1593012898191-QG9U73CI2FAPYJUQIYDE/Eleph.jpeg Work - Mothra vs Godzilla 2014 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/project-two-ky966-9tjbn monthly 0.5 2025-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/79ad00df-a18c-4cff-946f-d77b2d263745/Bow+Arts+Visions+2025+Programme+1+%28Low+Res%29-11.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/e1882040-d760-4b7e-89ee-f6a1563b4beb/Bow+Arts+Visions+2025+Programme+1+%28High+Res%29-11.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/fbea9e5d-31f7-4c3d-8aa7-40daef7453e6/Screenshot+2025-08-22+at+12.06.10.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/ab2f7e63-e144-4f84-a286-cd15882af749/Incunabulum.jpg https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/blondin monthly 0.5 2020-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1592300060236-VZNTIH4RYV30BI6E652L/Alex-shots-1920x1080.jpg Work - Blondin Blondin’s Apparatus, Niagara in the Mist, 2014 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/gifs monthly 0.5 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/d5df7676-8e58-4b68-8505-5e485f74ef69/Minotaursample.GIF Work - Gifs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/584110a1-fdaa-4d92-9ceb-c8d083d1d8ac/Buster+sample.GIF Work - Gifs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/c9e3552f-6f93-4d96-9051-324b17a87b46/Hybriditysample.GIF Work - Gifs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/9be2cb65-9d21-4e92-80da-cc1b875a3748/20250829_125739.GIF Work - Gifs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/9e1db10f-6915-4903-b4c7-4b406e092acb/20250829_125813.GIF Work - Gifs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/40f12809-fba2-4a2c-8d8f-758678dace06/20250829_130043.GIF Work - Gifs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/60ee09f2-c502-45c0-98ad-52e618a6f3b6/Niagarasample.GIF Work - Gifs - Thaumatrope with head, 2020 , is one of a series of flickering animated gifs that mimic the workings of the 19th century optical toy, the thaumatrope. A thaumatrope, literally wonder turner, consists of a card disc with different images on each side. When the disc is spun on its axis the images are combined to form one. The most common thaumatropic iteration is a bird and a cage, a play on the binaries of nature and culture. The gif, however, allows multiple images to be flashed before the viewer’s eyes. Endlessly looping, it breaks down causality and the viewer is involved in a moment without beginning or end. This is completely unlike the experience of cinema in which the expectation and fulfilment of consequence is central to its narrative. The gif, in presenting a ceaseless return produces an uneasy space for habitation, a vibrating moment in time. https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/planning-permissions monthly 0.5 2025-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/289dbc98-e181-4d7e-b69d-a60516c2f416/IMG_2097.jpg Work - Planning Permissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/d7bb1c26-ae23-4c30-9470-7930ac12ecbb/IMG_1994.JPG Work - Planning Permissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/73f27092-9329-4c29-a459-227b411496d5/20230412_103905.GIF Work - Planning Permissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/bbe47944-9b74-42da-be48-f71ae79d5d4d/20240301_104058%E2%80%AFam.GIF Work - Planning Permissions https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/pearlville monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591890265187-76GYOC78P73TCLGVJCBL/pearlville+%284%29.JPG Work - Pearlville 2010 Installation shot, Unspooling, Cornerhouse, Manchester https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/selected monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/breakdown monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455836014-FWTSEA5KU4Z35PQQPMMM/elqn.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 BREAKDOWN with ELAN Tuesday 3rd July - Saturday 7th July 12-4pm ELAN is the name of Aid & Abet’s creative studio space at the heart of the CB1 development near the train station in Cambridge. Inspired by ‘The Atelier Brancusi: A work of art in its own right’ and Daniel Buren’s influential essay ‘The Function of the Studio’ this 3-year project takes as a starting place ‘the studio’ and explores how artworks proximity to one another and their relationship with the site in which they are made enables a ‘true understanding’ of the artwork. ELAN is a hybrid space that overlaps studio, research lab and presentation space, designed to share with the public both the process and the results of artistic experiments. Elan is run by Artists Sarah Evans and David Kefford. Aid & Abet Mill Park Unit 1, Meade House, 2 CAMBRIDGE CB1 2FG https://www.aidandabet.co.uk/ Alex Pearl: BREAKDOWN For this exhibition, Alex Pearl is work is presenting a series of works that have led the thinking for his PHD: Breakdown: Mechanical Dysfunction and Anthropomorphism. Breakdown consists of machines that variously explore the gestures of breakdown and their role in the forming of human machine relationships. In an action that is performative but not quite a performance pearl will be present for the duration of the show maintaining, preparing and reconfiguring his breaking-machines. These machines have been through several exhibitions and bear the marks of their dysfunction and repair. In this the final exhibition, there is a simultaneous sense of survivorship but also of the death rattle of three years of practice led research. The breaking-machines presented in this exhibition are further subdivided into the following overlapping typologies: the approaching-breakdown-machine, the video-machine and the remade-breaking-machine. a. The approaching-breakdown-machine is a machine built to give the appearance of nearness to breakdown without truly breaking down. This is achieved by creating mechanisms with increased degrees of freedom introduced via loose joints, deformed or overly flexible parts and mechanical unbalance. In moving away from ‘true’ function, the approaching-breakdown-machine will often exhibit an erratic range of irregular motions that appear unsustainable. However, in many cases these machines will continue to function for long periods of time while exhibiting seizes and play in their mechanisms. In the context of exhibition, the approaching-breakdown-machine is often supported by the ministrations of the artist who is continually involved in a process of pulling the machine from the brink of breakdown. Through this process this type of breaking-machine allows a continued multi-sensory engagement between human and machine as it approaches breakdown. b. The video-machine is typically a looped, single-channel video displayed on a monitor. This machine allows the continual rerunning of the process of breakdown of either a pre-existing mechanical device, such as an electric fan, or of an approaching-breakdown-machine that has achieved actual breakdown. The video-machine is a repeating machine that makes breakdown its ghostly product. c. The remade-breaking-machine is a product of the relationship of artist, machine and exhibition. During their exhibition, Pearl is regularly present in the space adapting, or bringing the machines back to function. Often this involves the complete dismantling of broken machines and their reconfiguration into ‘new’ machines. Thus, the remade-breaking-machine becomes a physical marker of the processes of breakdown and repair, a marker that confirms the transience of machine and artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455836391-VMOL5IVXT8CYVHIZ3OR5/IMG_9965.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455836272-ZMLZRORHBADMKVVDKW9P/IMG_9976.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455835864-G7TBC3PFX9XU1G4YK1R1/IMG_9977.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455850889-MFDG0H20MDG42C3LBK31/IMG_9981.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455851237-WUKMOT9D8I3DQMES6QEB/IMG_9993.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591455870126-E9JMC11JVECC3MNO7JJ6/IMG_0483.JPG Work - Breakdown 2015-18 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/tarzan monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/automatic monthly 0.5 2020-06-11 https://www.alexpearl.co.uk/work/heads monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda1fe8b7d5f93c955476c9/1591361733136-O212W5BWSXHVF71SKX77/67873065_569604273797578_353630134750147593_n%281%29.jpg Work - We've Never Heard of This Man (Heads) Video projection, Ipswich Town Centre.